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  • ShenYang MixC Mall opens

    ShenYang MixC Mall opens

    CR Land recently celebrated the opening of its ShenYang MixC Mall in China’s Liaoning Province.

    The centre’s opening completed a 30 month design and delivery partnership with The Buchan Group’s Shanghai studio.

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    “CR Land’s design brief was to attract the local office and residential communities, particularly Gen Y and young families, by providing an elegant and efficient mall design that would also function as ‘a place to celebrate,’” said principal David MacLeod.

    “This allowed us to be more playful with our built forms and lighting when designing the interiors.”

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    As a result, The Buchan Group was able to integrate strong ceiling, lighting and floor patterning to provide precinct differentiation, as well as creating a bold, unified design intent that tied the elongated centre together.

    The five-level ShenYang MixC Mall is anchored by a major entertainment and food precinct at the uppermost level, and extends two levels below ground to a fast fashion precinct connected to basement car parking and MRT hub, making the mall the major component in one of the largest mixed–use projects in the city.

    The Buchan Group provided integrated interior architecture and interior design services to all public mall areas, as well as a number of specialised customer service facilities.

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  • Inside Wuhan 1818 mall

    Inside Wuhan 1818 mall

    Wuhan 1818 mall has recently opened in China, delivering a new generation retail and lifestyle centre set to energise the precinct’s urban core.

    The 70,000 sqm, seven storey mall was developed by CapitaMalls Asia  and caters to the needs of the 2.4 million people living and working in the district. It provides a diverse range of quality lifestyle, food and entertainment tenancies, anchored by rooftop cinemas and a basement supermarket and car parking.

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    “The project opens at a dynamic point in space and time for Wuhan, coinciding with a period of unprecedented change,” said Buchan Group principal, David Macleod.

    “Our design for the centre fits well with the contemporary facelift of the district as Wuhan rapidly evolves into a Future City.”

    The design for the development was inspired by the unique cultural catchment and captures the essence of its past, whilst responding to evolving retail trends of the future.

    “We felt both a responsibility to be respectful of Wuhan’s history and culture in our design, but to look to its future,” said Macleod.  “We felt a need to embrace the needs and aspirations of the new modern urban community.”

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    The interior design concept for the mall expresses aspects of this dynamic through restrained organic patterns crowned by splashes of vibrant colour and dappled light effects.  The prominent podium facade creates an impressive street-edge to the integrated office and residential mixed use precinct, and adds an impressive addition to the quality development portfolio of The Buchan Group and CapitaMalls Asia.

    The centre’s planning was engineered to ensure the mall performs a civic function as an urban meeting place for the local community, encouraging social connections and redefining the art of placemaking in the district. This informed the predominance of formal and informal food and entertainment spaces in the planning and tenancy mix.

    The Buchan Group provided integrated design and delivery services for this ambitious project, including facade and interior architecture, interior design and graphic and wayfinding design services from concept design through to construction site services.

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