Emporia Shopping Centre

The winner of World’s Best Shopping Building at World Architecture Festival Awards 2013 and ICSC Solal Marketing Awards 2013 is the Emporia Shopping Centre. The Emporia Shopping Centre opened in 2012 in Malmö, Sweden. Emporia is an urban planning project in which offices, housing, and retail come together in a mixed-use development

Approximately 200 shops are located in Emporia, with a total area of 93,000 m². The mall is five stories topped with a roof terrace measuring 27,000 m², equivalent to approximately four soccer fields. In total, the mall employs around 3,000 people. According to Emporia, they have around 25,000 visitors per day.

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http://travel.ie.msn.com/photos/the-worlds-best-architecture-1?page=18

http://www.archdaily.com/386107/facts-emporia-wingardhs/

www.icsc.org/uploads/awards/Solal_2013Winners.pdf