Maryam
Alsaqran
Jeff
klepper
English
113B
October
23RD 2013
Beverly Center
The Beverly center is a huge and famous
shopping center that located in California, Los Angeles. This shopping center
include a bunch of shops some are luxury such as, Bloomingdales and some are
normal as mayc’s. Moreover, some restaurants and different cuisines are in the
Beverly center. I choose to write about this place because when I first came to
California the Beverly center was the first mall I visit and since that time I
didn’t like it because of it design and it facilities’ distribution.
First
of all, the outer look is a set of stories for parking and on the top of them
is a huge piece of block, which is boring. When I first look at the building I
thought that it was a building for parking not a shopping mall. I usually
imagine the upper part of the building as a coffin, dark, solid, and plain box
that used to bury dead people; in other words, a shape that is not suitable to
represent a famous shopping center in Los Angles, the state of fashion. I feel
its is a stuffy place because there is no windows in the whole building.
According to the article Windows the
author Daniel Lemmens says, “ A window is meant to look through. To
observe.”(Lemmens 1); and the only place has a glass in this building is the
stairs that takes the visitors from the parking into the mall. However, there
is no space visible through that glass the wall inside that place is too close
to the glass; so it is stuffy as well. Furthermore, there is no main entrance
to the mall; people need to have a car to park it in the parking then to go
into the mall from the doors and the stairs from the parking area, so how if
someone wants to walk to this mall? The
main doors outside are to the restaurants, which makes the mall seems as a mall
for restaurants only.
Moving on to the facilities such as the restaurants
in this mall, I didn’t find that the restaurants are organized in there. Each
restaurant is far away from any other restaurant, which makes people face confusion
to choose where to eat because they are not seeing the entire restaurant in one
place to find what they are craving. And again, the inside of the mall is
stuffy because there are no windows.
James Howard Kunstler said about the
public spaces in a ted video named The
ghastly tragedy of the suburbs, that “people just go there voluntarily
because they just like them” also he said “people just go because its pleasure
to be there” ( Kunstler) so the public spaces sould be pleased on eyes. Therefore, I would like to recreate the outer
design and make it more pleased to the eyes. First of all, I would move the
parking area to the basement and make the mall is on the ground floor; because
by that’s way the mall is going to be obvious more, than the parking and it
would seems as a mall in stead of a parking building. Furthermore, I would put
a huge glass door to be the main entrance in the middle of the front of the
mall to make it easier to the pedestrian to get into the mall. Also, I would
provide elevator instead of the stairs to the people to get into the mall from
the new parking area; because I fount the elevators are more suitable to take
people from basements to ground than the stairs.
In addition, I would make it a glass
building, what I meat is that I want to make the building is full of windows
some of them are openable and some are not. So then visitors can get benefit
from the sunlight while they are shopping and also to have an airy and breezy
space. As well as, the glass would make the building modern and new contrary
how it is now. And finally, I would keep the restaurants in one place to
represent the dining area; and add some other fast food restaurants such as
MacDonald’s.
Works Cited
Kunstler, James H. "James Howard Kunstler: The Ghastly
Tragedy of the Suburbs." TED:
Ideas worth Spreading. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.
Lemmens, Daniel. "Windows." Urologic Nursing,
22.3 (2002): 147.
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