Shopping Centers Today -> May 2005
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EUROPE’S BEST

Awards honor top new and refurbished centers across the Continent

ICSC Europe unveiled the winners of the 2005 European Shopping Centre Awards last month at the Retail Real Estate World Summit, in Istanbul, Turkey. The program recognizes the best new and refurbished retail projects completed in Europe between July 2002 and June 2004.

The awards jury consisted of important figures in the international shopping center industry.

“Previous winning shopping centers have led the way in showing how to integrate good design, planning, merchandising, sales results and all other areas of shopping center management, including customer approval,” said Arcadio Gil Pujol, the jury chairman and managing director of Madrid, Spain-based retail consulting firm LaSBA. “The standard of entries this year was very high, but our objective in selecting the finalists … was to identify and recognize the centers that seem to particularly set an example to the industry as a whole. This will allow others in the industry to benefit from their knowledge, expertise and success.”

The categories were:

Small new centers
(under 20,000 square meters [215,240 square feet])
Medium new centers
(20,000 square meters-35,000 square meters)
Large new centers
(over 35,000 square meters)

Refurbishments and expansions

The entries were from 14 countries, of which the winners represented 10. These European winners will be automatically entered in the 2005 International Awards Program, to be announced in December.
New centers, small Award: Kamp-Promenade, Osnabrück, Germany
Gross leasable area: 15,730 square meters
Developer: AM Development Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany
Architect: T&T Design bv, Gouda, the Netherlands
Owner: WestInvest Gesellschaft für Investmentfonds mbH, Düsseldorf
Opened: June 2004
Kamp-Promenade is a multifunction, open-air city center project built on a site that had been vacant since World War II.




Commendation: Estação Viana, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Gross leasable area: 18,558 square meters
Developer: Sonae Imobiliária, Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: José Quintela da Fonseca, Sonae Imobiliária
Owner: Sonae Imobiliária
Opened: November 2003
This center is located over the railway station in the historic city of Viana do Castelo. The architecture, inspired by the railway, is intended to bridge the gap between the older and newer areas of the city.



New centers, medium

Award: Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland
Gross leasable area: 27,000 square meters
Developer: Fortis sp.z.o.o., Poznan
Architect: Studio ADS sp.z.o.o., Poznan
Owner: Fortis sp.z.o.o
Opened: November 2003
Stary Browar occupies the formerly dilapidated, 19th-century Hugger Bros. breweries in Poznan. New buildings were added.




Commendation: Klanderij, Enschede, The Netherlands
Gross leasable area: 20,400 square meters
Developers: Foruminvest BV; Naarden and Prowinko Groep BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Architects: De Architekten Cie, Amsterdam; The Jerde Partnership International, Venice, Calif.
Owner: Fortis Vastgoed BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Opened: October 2003
Enschede is one of the 10 largest cities in Holland. This shopping center’s owners say they hope the city will recover spending power that has been going to surrounding cities and to Germany. Klanderij hired the lighting expert that worked with Cirque du Soleil. The roof is half copper and half wood.



New centers, large

Award: Bullring, Birmingham, England
Gross leasable area: 109,917 square meters
Developer: The Birmingham Alliance, Birmingham
Architects: Benoy, London; Chapman Taylor, London
Owner: The Birmingham Alliance
Opened: September 2003
The redevelopment of the 26-acre Bullring site is a milestone in the city’s renaissance. The project brings modern retail space to the city center and features new open spaces, walkways and performance areas, together with iconic new architecture.




Commendation: Les Grands Prés, Mons, Belgium
Gross leasable area: 37,200 square meters
Developer: Foruminvest SA, Brussels, Belgium
Architects: Atelier d’Art Urbain, Brussels; Groupe Isis, Paris
Owner: DIFA Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG, Hamburg, Germany
Opened: September 2003
Les Grands Prés is an out-of-town shopping center near the historic center of Mons. The developers wanted to create something special in this relatively poor region of closed coal mines and steel plants that has a 30 percent unemployment rate.

Refurbishments and extensions

Award: Olympia — Einkaufszentrum München, Munich, Germany
Gross leasable area: 56,000 square meters
Developer and architect: ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. &. Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany
Owner: DGA Dr. Rühl & Co. Anlagef, Düsseldorf
Refurbished: July 2002 (original opening 1972)
Special recognition: Klanderij


2005 European Shopping Centre Awards Jury

Arcadio Gil Pujol (chairman), managing director, LaSBA, Madrid, Spain
Einar Aakerøy, partner, Arkitektkontoret Aakerøy, Moe & Bowe A.S., Oslo, Norway
Gerrit W. Beker, managing director, ING Vastgoed Ontwikkeling B.V., The Hague, The Netherlands
Fridel Kellermann, executive partner, R K W Architects, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stephen Pragnell, president, Apsys Polska, Warsaw, Poland
Mario Taccini, chairman, Espansione Commerciale srl, Modena, Italy
Carol Wright, senior partner, Property Market Analysis, London

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