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It dawned on me as I worked on my sketches: A mall is an attempt at the mystical idea of a cobblestone street in Europe with shops on either side, and everyone leisurely enjoying a nice summer day. The attempt is almost too good in a way. Malls like…

Upon visiting both Copley Place/Prudential Center Mall and Newbury Street, I was surprised to find how each attempted to mimic certain characteristics of each other. The Copley Place and Prudential Center Malls are large, enclosed, shopping centers.…

I focused on the physical atmosphere more on Newbury Street than in the Prudential/Copley Place Shopping Center. I tended to centralize my ideas on the people passing through the space in the latter. I noticed that even though Newbury Street is…

Newbury Street and the Prudential Center take different forms as commercial spaces due to the agency afforded in their constructions. The layout of the Prudential Center, being a designed center on a plot of land, could have taken really any form. As…

My journey began, as prescribed, at the entrance of Copley Place Mall on the corner of Dartmouth and Stuart streets. I found the two horse statues at the entrance to the Copley Place to be an interesting symbol. Almost as if they were regal gate…

For this sketch, I tried to switch up my approach from my last sketch. Instead of doing a view from above, I picked a view from one particular spot and tried to incorporate a more abstract idea of space. I tried to focus on perspective and angle. I…

Despite both being shopping malls, these two spaces are drastically different. The Copley and Prudential center shopping mall is designed for consumerism. The flow of the space effortlessly directs one along a path of retail. It is one long tunnel of…

I was interested both in how this space in the mall complex seemed to function as a segue between the two malls and in how it delineated public vs. non-public spaces. In regards to the first point, I noticed that the two malls had very different…

The Copley Place and Prudential Center malls and Newbury Street display a stark contrast in the different modes one can organize a retail center or area. First, Newbury is very open, with stores in townhouse style buildings along the street. I think…