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New St Stephens Green SC Interior design

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    #62
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,987 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Speedsie wrote: »
    Think it was 1988 for the 'Aluminium' Year...
    ;)
    miamee wrote: »
    Was just about to say '88 alright :D
    It was a complete 'white elephant' at the time it opened and subjected to much ridicule especially considering the country was on its knees. If I recall correctly it took a couple of years to take off.

    (I like the fact that it seems to be a skanger-free zone - unlike Ilac, Dundrum, Blanch, Quarryvale, Square, Northside etc.)


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    #63
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,987 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    GS062_Pizzaland.preview.jpg

    Here's a 1990 image with an very quiet Grafton Street - I'd love to know where the photographer was placed to take this!

    I used to meet an old girlfriend in Pizzaland - how sophisticated!:o

    (Note South King Street was still open to traffic).


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    #64
    dmcg90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭dmcg90


    They could certainly add some more escalators to it, its a bit unintuitive to navigate.


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    #65
    strandroad
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    dmcg90 wrote: »
    They could certainly add some more escalators to it, its a bit unintuitive to navigate.

    I had a friend who worked as an architect designing shopping centers and she said that it's the norm to hide escalators and lifts - you want the customers to walk around levels on their way up or down in order to notice/browse more shops. Due to safety norms though, stairs/lifts need to be there so typically if you look around you will see a hidden door/side passage with escape route and you can use the stairs there. They just won't expose them in the middle of the space; they want to force you to spend time wandering.


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    #66
    ProudDUB
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    mhge wrote: »
    I had a friend who worked as an architect designing shopping centers and she said that it's the norm to hide escalators and lifts - you want the customers to walk around levels on their way up or down in order to notice/browse more shops. Due to safety norms though, stairs/lifts need to be there so typically if you look around you will see a hidden door/side passage with escape route and you can use the stairs there. They just won't expose them in the middle of the space; they want to force you to spend time wandering.

    I get the logic of that, and I suppose all the mall designers and architects out there have the data on shopper habits and market research to back it up. But in the shopping centres that I go to, most of of what I need tends to be in the anchor stores on the ground floor. I'll take a wander up to the upper floors for a browse, if there are escalators conveniently located around the mall, relatively close to where I am already shopping. I won't if I have to trek to the other end of of the shopping centre to get to one, or search around for lifts & stairs. Am I the only person who is like that? :o


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    #67
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    I get the logic of that, and I suppose all the mall designers and architects out there have the data on shopper habits and market research to back it up. But in the shopping centres that I go to, most of of what I need tends to be in the anchor stores on the ground floor. I'll take a wander up to the upper floors for a browse, if there are escalators conveniently located around the mall, relatively close to where I am already shopping. I won't if I have to trek to the other end of of the shopping centre to get to one, or search around for lifts & stairs. Am I the only person who is like that? :o

    Charlestown is a great example of this... You come up one end of the escalator and the down one is on the opposite side. Makes sure you see most, if not all shops.


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