It’s a known fact that shopping centres around the world need to reinvent themselves to avoid falling sales. One of the main causes of the decrease in influx to large stores and therefore declining sales, is the migration of purchasers to online sales services. Experts say that this latter market, which continues to grow year...
In 2007, the Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta won the competition to design a centre destined for the promotion and development of culture in Saudi Arabia. Promoted by the world’s largest oil company, the Saudi Arabian company Aramco, the King Abdulaziz Center opened on December 1, 2017. A year later, Time magazine included it in the...
At the end of last year, the French tourist guide Petit Futé, with thirty years experience and more than 3 million users, chose the ten campsites in France with the best waterparks. In first place came Camping La Sirène’s 5-star waterpark, in the Occitanie town of Argeles-sur-Mer. Well, the campsite is the complete work of...
Village Market, in Nairobi, Kenya, is the first shopping centre in Africa to offer its customers a FEC (Family Entertainment Centre) with a playground for all ages. It is “Under The Sea”, a leisure area with two spaces, one for children from 2 to 12 years old, and another for children from 12 years and...
According to the report of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), published at the end of 2019, the world market for such facilities is in good health, and its outlook for the next five Years are positive. But let’s look at the details that the data reveals: public attendance at amusement and...
South Korea is now the third country in Asia to send most tourists to Spain, just behind Japan, in second place, and China, in first. Some 444,000 South Korean tourists visited the country up to August 2017 (the latest data available), which is 10 times more than in 2010 and an increase of 39.2% over...
More often than not, our job consists of responding to questions, both technical and creative. On this occasion we’re asking ourselves the following: How to transfer ideas and concepts of prestigious emblematic architecture to the world of residential architecture, without detriment to its aesthetic value and without making it unaffordable for the majority of buyers?...
Tourism, understood as the movement of the people from their normal place of residence to another place to enjoy leisure, rest, culture, health, business or family relationships, beyond ancient history, began with the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. As such, it is a phenomenon that has not stopped growing since. According to data from...
We talked with the director of the Marché International des Professionnels de l’Immobilier, or MIPIM, the international real estate fair for the office, residential, retail, health, sports, logistics and industrial sectors, which takes place annually in March in Cannes, France. Ronan Vaspart tells us about the approach that will guide what will be the 31st...
