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Shopping Centers Today -> May 2004
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ICSC ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN AWARD WINNERS
Six new shopping centers from across Europe received ICSC European Shopping Centre Awards at this year’s 29th ICSC European Conference in Rome.
These annual awards were established in 1975 to recognize excellence in the field of design and development. They honor the shopping center owners, development officers, marketing directors, architects and designers who design and create Europe’s outstanding new and refurbished shopping centers.
The judges evaluated the centers based on the degree to which they are likely to influence future development. They particularly took into account the innovation that can take this industry forward, organizers say.
The other criteria included originality of planning concept, quality of building design and merchandising plan, degree of difficulty in achieving the objective, compliance to the basic rules of shopping center development, overall result in management and trading terms, and quality of presentation.
This year’s entries competed in four categories: small new centers (under 35,000 square meters, or about 377,000 square feet); large new centers (over 35,000 square meters); specialised new centers; and refurbishment/extensions.
All of these were opened or refurbished between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2003.
New Centers, Small (under 35,000 square meters)
Gross leasable area: 31,333 square meters Developer: Sogutozu Construction and Management, Ankara, Turkey Architects: A Tasarim Architecture and Consulting, Ankara, Turkey Owner: Sogutozu Construction and Management, Ankara, Turkey |
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| Commendation: Parade, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, the Netherlands Gross leasable area: 15,000 square meters Developers: NG Real Estate Development, The Hague, Netherlands Architects: Soeters van Eldonk Ponec Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Gross leasable area: 40,000 square meters Developers: ECE Projektmanagement, Hamburg, Germany Architects: ECE Projektmanagement, Hamburg, Germany Owner: Centnun Handlowe Polska 2 SP Z.O.O., Warsaw, Poland |
Gross leasable area: 129,875 square meters Developer: The Mills Corp., Arlington, Va. Architects: Chapman Taylor, Madrid, Spain Owner: Madrid Xanadú 2003 SL, Madrid, Spain |
New Centers, Specialized
Gross leasable area: 34,098 square meters Developers: Riofisa, Madrid, Spain Architects: Chapman Taylor, Madrid, Spain Owner: Riofisa, Madrid, Spain |
Refurbishments/Extensions
Gross leasable area: 72,228 square meters Developers: Sonae Imobiliária, Lisbon, Portugal; Multiplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Refurbishment: Sonae Imobiliária Architects: Refurbishment Architect: Jose Quintela (Sonae Imobiliária) Original: Nelson F. de Almedia; Robert Fuchs Owner: Sonae Imobiliária; Pan European, London; Transeuropean II, London |
International Design and Development Awards
Winners in the 2004 European Shopping Centre Awards competition
are automatically entered into ICSC’s International Design
and Development Awards.
These awards, which will be given for the first time at the specialized Centerbuild Conference in Phoenix in December, honor shopping center owners, developers, managers, architects and designers who have designed and created what the judges consider to be the most outstanding shopping centers in the world.
Winners received their awards from Bertrand Courtois Suffit, chairman of the European Advisory Board of ICSC. The chairman of the judging panel was Arcadio Gil Pujol, ASM, managing director of LaSBA in Madrid.
The awards committee is made up of senior international figures in the shopping center industry with a wide range of experience in the fields of retail development, architecture, marketing, operations and property consulting.
Those serving on the awards committee were as follows: Einar AakerØy, AakerØy Moe & Bowe Architects, Oslo, Norway; Gerrit Beker, ING Real Estate Development, The Hague, Netherlands; Friedel Kellermann, RKW Architektur + Städtebau, Düsseldorf, Germany; Stephen Pragnell, Apsys Polska, Warsaw, Poland; Carol Wright, Property Market Analysis, London; Marco de Stefani, Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker, Bologna, Italy.
Last year five European shopping centers won awards at this event. They were: Centre Commercial Courier, Annecy, France; Forum Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Galeria Dominikanska, Wroclaw, Poland; Val d’Europe, Serris, France; and Veso Mare, Patras, Greece.
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