Dead Mall Competition

A Los Angeles architecture and urban design group launches a "dead mall" idea competition.

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November 6, 2002, 6:00 AM PST

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design proposes anopen,two-part, ideas competition to envision the future of the mall. Thiscompetition challenges the design and planning community to counter thetrend towards the deriliction, abandonment, and "death" of the regionalmalland invites approaches to rethinking its urbanistic and architecturalmilieu. The nationwide demise of these large scale retail complexes hasbeenwidely documented in recent years, but few compelling proposals havebeengenerated towards their resuscitation and ressurrection. Thiscompetitionseeks the reanimation of the presumed "dead" and "dying", reassessingtherole these structures play in civic life and the possibilitiesmodificationor conversion might provide to communities across America.

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