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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…

This assignment forced me to think critically about the decisions I was making. Unlike our first assignment, where we were tasked with simply sketching a space from memory, this assignment required considerable observation and attention to detail.…

Copley Place is definitely catered for the wealthy upper class in its selection of stores. Neiman Marcus, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Tiffany and Co. are only a handful of the many higher-end brand name stores available here. The most interesting thing…

Copley, Prudential Center, and Newbury Street are all popular commercial spaces in close proximity. However, by virtue of some being an indoors shopping space and the other being an outdoor shopping space, the problems each commercial space have to…

Both the Prudential Center and Newbury street are commercial shopping areas, but they differ in that the Prudential could conceivably be modeled on a central meeting place with radiating streets in a town, whereas Newbury street harkens to the main…

What’s fascinating about the Prudential Center and Copley Square malls is the way in which they both seek to simultaneously evoke the covered shopping street and, more complicatedly, the dynamics of a small market town. In the first case, the peaked…

Although Newbury Street and Copley Place/Prudential Center seem like two different worlds – one outside, the other inside, one containing eclectic and contemporary brands and the other containing luxury heavyweights – the two utilize similar design…

Newbury Street and the Copley and Prudential malls both serve roughly the same purpose – commercial shopping – but do have vastly different impacts and experiences. In general, Newbury seems target younger and less affluent consumers and…

Upon observing both Copley Place and Prudential Center Malls, and Newbury Street, distinct differences between the two become apparent. On the first floor, the shopping centers of Copley Place and the Prudential Center have wider walkways spanning…

First, I just want to say that I'm really impressed by both prudential center and Newbury street. Those two shopping areas are so close to each other, yet so different in style. It's really a lot of fun.

Prudential center actually feel like a…