Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa November/December 2013 | Page 38

The Louis Karol team
was responsible for
both the architecture
and the interiors

The new mall design breaks away from the
traditional spatial model of shopping centres
as enclosed and internal, combining generous
mall widths and dramatic ceiling volumes with
a luxurious surfeit of natural light and a refined
palette of finishes.
Futuristic
The exterior of the building again departs from
the traditional, with its dramatic roofscape and

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expanses of glazing at both the front entrances
and the food court’s balcony emphasising
a connection to the outside and to the
surrounding area. The external finishes knit
together the new mall with the existing building
housing Checkers, which had to remain intact,
and the new cinema block in which the form was
driven by the requirements of the theatres.
Complementing the complex and dramatic
ceilings, which give the new mall its defining

Blue Route Mall