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Magazines Archives - 2008 February
Beijing financial district gets high-end fashion mall
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BEIJING FINANCE STREET HOLDING COMPANY LTD, a stateowned public company in China, has opened its high-end fashion mall, Seasons Place. Located in the Xicheng district of West Central Beijing, the mall hosts a number of international upmarket brands the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior, Gucci and Ermenegildo Zegna.
Said Geoff Morrison, principal and managing director of concept i, the company that conceptualised the mall design: The project is conceived as a high-end lifestyle destination with the worlds best international brands on a grand scale. It is unrivalled in terms of investment in retail interior design.
The inspiration behind its design, Morrison added, is taken from traditional Chinese landscape paintings, and is executed in the most modern and abstract way with textured limestone surfaces, landscape terraces and cascades.
US-based architectural and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrills has been commissioned to give the 80,000sqm four-storey mall, with a basement, a soft-curved architecture featuring one of the countrys largest spanning skylights.
The night illumination is dramatic, projected, using LED colour-change lighting technology, on the vast skylight structure as a palette for changing moods and ambience, Morrison said.
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