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Zalando, Amazon & co. are changing retail, which we would like to highlight our consumer behaviour – and our in this issue. In Mönchengladbach, cities. Once the venerable gentleman's kadawittfeldarchitektur relied on the outfitter and the local bookstore give effects of a powerful facade. In , up, retail spaces will probably remain one of Zaha Hadid's last projects was vacant for a long time. Shopping streets a spectacularly large building. In Bern, become problem areas – and suddenly Andrea Roost proved that the more subtle the online challenge faced by retailers means of architecture are also still very also becomes an architectural task. effective. Finally, our author Peter Thode After all, the urban atmosphere of inner competently describes how successful cities thrives on the hubs of diverse retail shopping centres are created – he has outlets. Once these go out of business, the already designed a few and we will new derelict areas cannot be revived by present you with one of the most recent any number of public measures. Urbanity ones. We hope you enjoy this issue. is not created by office buildings but by people who meet in attractive locations, in shops, in front of window displays and in street cafes. Luckily, there still remain some successful examples of stationary

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PORTAL 38 3 www.schoerghuber.de ABOUT THE TOPIC: SHOPPING CENTRES AS A CHALLENGE POWERHOUSE: AND OPPORTUNITY FOR GERMAN ARCHITECTS MINTO IN MÖNCHENGLADBACH, DE

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PORTAL 38 5 Galleria Vittorio Emanuele 2 by Giuseppe Mengoni in Milano. Photo: George Clerk / iStock ABOUT THE TOPIC: CONSUMPTION HIGH POTENTIAL SHOPPING CENTRES AS A CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR GERMAN ARCHITECTS By Peter Thode

Is consumption architecture a task for owners. They threaten German inner cities as a whole, which architects? Yes, very much so – says makes them an architectural and urban planning task. At any Peter Thode, Head of Creative Design rate, this challenge can no longer be denied. Anyone who Department Architecture at ECE, the persists in doing so is acting irresponsibly. Incidentally: the design of retail spaces offers very large work potential for European market leader for inner-city German architects, which, with a few exceptions, up to now shopping centres. Unfortunately, however, unfortunately was left to major international architectural not in Germany. The large projects around firms. I wonder why this is the case? After all, when it comes the world are predominately designed by to anything from stadiums to healthcare architecture, German other companies. Peter Thode deplores architects are among the global elite. Only when it comes to this and explains the urban planning consumption architecture there seems to be a blind spot in the line of vision of our self-employed colleagues. What they lack, responsibility of architects. with a few famous exceptions, is interest in these architectural tasks and thus the specialised knowledge of the firm rules of ECE currently operates 196 shopping centres in Germany functionality and the development of stationary trade in the era and Europe – and a large number of these were planned and of Amazon and Zalando. constructed by us. For more than 50 years we have known what architecture and interior design should look like to be Emotions and stories actually accepted by the customers and appreciated by the ECE operates a large architectural firm with around 300 retailers. Yet I am very sorry to say that in Germany architects architects and engineers. In addition, the tasks corresponding who design shopping centres are not exactly considered to be to performance phase 1 of the “Honorarordnung für among the architecture Avant-garde. But at least the public Architekten und Ingenieure” (HOAI – fee regulations for image of this architectural task is increasingly improving. architects and engineers), the so-called creative phase, After all, planning a publicly accessible building with various are handled by our specialised department with a total of uses such as retail, gastronomy, entertainment, and an all- 30 staff members. Given this background, we are very well round comfortable atmosphere is very demanding. And yet, aware of why some shopping centres are successful and nowadays shopping is one of the factors by which German others are not. And one thing has become very clear to us – inner cities are primarily defined. During the 1960s at the the most important aspect of a project is always the clever latest, this architecture of consumption became a key urban combination of function and emotion. The proper functional planning factor. It may be subject to criticism and considered planning, fuelled by an emotional component based on a deterioration of urbanity – yet retail areas and restaurant the location, the history and the future target customers, concepts are responsible for the life of inner cities even after determines the success or failure of a shopping centre. This hours when offices have long since shut and the streets are is the "bread and butter" at the beginni