Eric Ronda

Eric Ronda

When taking the elevator up from the ground floor to the main entrance of the Prudential center Shopping mall, you begin in a glass ceiling hallway that “begins” your journey throughout the mall.

While traveling through the mall, the experience is similar to driving down a the right side of a ride with stores on your right, and the other side with people traveling against you with stores on their side. Instead of dividers on the road, there are a series of stalls selling different merchandise. After each long straight walkway there is a large area where people tended to gather and talk to each other. Unlike the walkways which seemed to be built strictly for walking, the large areas had places to sit and relax. The Prudential Mall felt much more open and brighter due to the large use of glass, which gave the mall a much happier and fun feel than the Copley mall. When crossing the bridge to the Copley Mall, the red/orange granite floor along with the dim lighting gave a much more serious and more sophisticated feel to the mall. In the middle of the Copley Mall was a place for people to congregate and listen to the waterfall or plan the next area they will go to. However similar to the Prudential Mall there are walkways that seem to have one purpose and that is for travel, whereas the bigger sections in the center of the mall are for various activities and places for people to gather and communicate. Traveling through the mall, it seemed as though the plan was to make the exits on the very ends of the mall and very hard to find so you end up traveling on this constantly changing road until you reach the end. The Prudential Center also infused plants and shrubbery within the plan of the mall to liven the feeling. While traveling down Newbury Street I got a very similar feeling to when I was traveling through the walkway of the mall. The sidewalk that you walk down is separated from the stores by a small front yard that each store had. The Front yards were used for multiple purposes depending on what the sore was. Most restaurants utilized the space to have outdoor seating, which appeals to a lot of people who would like to eat outside while looking at the traffic walking by. Another commercial aspect of the street are the displays within the windows of dressed up mannequins.