Jing An Kerry Centre is a high-rise mixed-use development in central Shanghai that features three office towers, a hotel at the top of one of the office towers, a multifamily residential building, and extensive streetfront and enclosed mall retail, all arranged on two adjacent blocks in the heart of the Jing An district. The project was built on 14.8 acres (6 ha) in two phases separated by a decade, and includes 465,000 square meters of building area. The project was completed in 2013.
Beaugrenelle is a repositioned multilevel retail center with 49,517 square meters of gross leasable area (GLA) in the heart of Paris. The project involved the redevelopment and repositioning of an existing shopping center, first built in 1979 as part of a larger mixed-use district. Located several blocks from the Eiffel Tower, in the Front de Seine district, the original center was erected on a podium that placed much of the retail above the street level. The new center is a fusion of internal mall and streetfront retail space, and uses a striking new modern design to reconnect the center with the street and the neighborhood.
The Levent district—the financial heart of downtown Istanbul—had become disjointed and isolated, the result of rapid growth, the lack of a viable urban plan, and little collaboration among public agencies and developers. New development had put the needs of automobiles ahead of more pressing urban needs. The approximately 50,000 people who worked in the district had few places to socialize, entertain, or even walk along the street.
