And because Singapore is so small, we can close our eyes and find ourselves in a shopping mall within hundred NORMAL steps from any MRT. (I wish... but soon I believe this will be the case). Now the thing is that the transition from the outdoors into a shopping mall, take for example Centrepoint, is nothing spectacular or fun. Why can't they have nice entrance effects like nice waterfalls and fountains that project out long strands of water like that in Bugis Junction? Instead, we find ourselves boggled down by countless of human traffic.
Everybody likes to walk on a red carpet, in all, to feel invited. This is something that malls in Singapore lack. It's more like we invite ourselves into the mall. Couldn't the malls just have a nice entrance effect where we know that we are actually entering a specific mall? It seems as though we enter malls that are all the same and identical.
Well, at least improve the facades like what Wisma Atria did. Compare it with Taka - hey even an idiot can tell the difference. Although the entrance to Wisma Atria still bugs me because it forces me to go up to the food court level and higher levels which can be quite irritating.
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I'm sure there's a very obvious reason why they are diverting u to the upper flrs... wisma is too well known for its basement link to taka.
Smart Mall operators like capitalMall sure understand the draw of food in shopping malls. Their malls are usually crowded with food outlets in the basement as well as the ground level.
I believe singaporeans are really living up to our name of food lovers. That's why we see so many people crowding around the food outlets of these malls. This indirectly creates an impression that the malls are theming with people and this in turn draws more people.
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