![]() It is what architects call a “dumbbell plan.” At either end are two retail fixtures - Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s - and a highly decorous and actively 3D gallery/hallway connects them, at one point spanning over North Water Street. What was impossible to see until the opening was that, despite its name, this building has a starkly familiar mall plan. ![]() Colors, patterns, patches, layers, voids and projections are dynamically arrayed in a full-on effort to convey activity in architecture. ![]() Cast alongside an array of attractions in Norwalk - the Maritime Aquarium, Lockwood-Matthews Mansion and the Norwalk River - this massive 700,000-square-foot effort fulfills the promise of a full-day shopping experience.įor a couple of years, we have all watched as a jumble of boxes were built along Interstate 95, as steel and concrete slabs became buildings and garages, but this year, a multitude of materials were applied to the leviathan’s exterior. The SoNo Collection opened last month in South Norwalk, developed by Brookfield Properties, which hired the vaunted architectural firm, CallisonRTKL, and the results are kinetic. You could build a “collection.” Or at least build a classic agglomeration of big-box stores and their symbiants and call it a “collection.” Who would build a shopping mall, now, here? ![]() It is now conventional wisdom that Connecticut is aging and soon will be crushed under the impact of Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that eliminated the federal tax deduction we all had for our town property taxes, sending family budgets into tilt. It took 50 years, but after Kmart, Walmart and Target opened in 1962, the era of the box store, and its metastasizing into the American mall, seems to have run its course, killed by that internet (and Amazon). ![]()
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