Calming design for a frenetic world
For something so static, architecture can do a lot of things. It can stir the soul (religious buildings), it can excite or inspire playfulness (a world’s fair or midway), or it can soothe and calm the human heart.For calming architecture, my thoughts turn to Raymond Moriyama’s slow escalator descent into the valley at the Ontario Science Centre, the curving walls of my childhood library, S. Walter Stewart Library in East York (or almost any library for that matter), or the Grand Hall at Union Station.
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Increase in recreation businesses at malls points to fast-evolving trend
Canadian malls have long featured recreation facilities – gyms are everywhere, and West Edmonton Mall’s waterpark has been a draw since the mid-1980s – but the recent launch of numerous, elaborate recreation centres in shopping complexes large and small points to a fast-evolving trend, insiders say.“Entertainment has become a necessary part of the shopping centre experience,” says David Wyatt, senior vice-president of retail at Morguard Investments Ltd., which owns or manages 17 malls across Canada.
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