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The atrium at Melbourne's Federation Square is a sea of rich colours in the evening.
HDR photo taken on a Canon EOS 350D and merged using 3 exposures 2.0 EV apart.
This is the atrium in the Natural History Museum in Washington DC
This was the best museum I have ever visited. The football hall of fame was close but the layout of the building itself is very impressive. I hate to do it but I think all the time when I am in places "what would this place look like abandoned for 50 years"
I wasn't allowed to use a tri-pod anywhere in Washington. The museums let you bring them in but ask you not use them. They asked me at the subway stations to stop using the tri-pod. You can shoot hand held but not with a tri-pod. Mono Pod is ok to use as well. <====?? I don't get it. They asked me at the Washington Monument to not use a tri-pod. I asked them all why and they mostly answered because that is the rule. One guy told me "dems da rules" I didn't exactly know how to respond to that. One guy who seemed like he made it to the point of questioning why a rule exists told me "It's been like that since 9-11, you can't have anything that you can set up" So I guess that's it huh. Create some kind of imaginary fear and then slowly "protect" us against our will. I shot with it everywhere I went anyway so who cares. I think this might be my first blog. HA
The bottom floor is now much wider, and the upper is supported with pillars. Still need to order more white tiles.
This area of the mall is the former food court and current Best Buy area. The food court and atrium was built in the early 1990s. Best Buy tore down much of the old food court in 2006 for a new store here. Best Buy did, however, keep the atrium instead of demolishing it. The atrium is something this Best Buy has that makes it different than the other best Buy stores! In the link below is a picture someone took of the old Food Court exterior from before Best Buy (buildingphotos.com/shopping/southland-taylor.php)
Southland Center in Taylor, MI was opened in 1970. The mall was designed by Victor Gruen for the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target).
The mall was originally anchored by a Hudson's department store. Later in the 1970s JCPenney was added. Mervyn's (now demolished for a new CineMark muliti-plex) and a Target (on an out-parcel) were added in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s a food court with a massive atrium was added. Hudson's later re-branded as Marshall Field's and again as Macy's in the 2000s. In 2006 Mervyn's left Michigan and Best Buy replaced the food court. Much of the food court was demolished for Best Buy but the atrium still exists in the middle of the store.
Since Dayton-Hudson sold off their properties and department stores, this mall is now owned by Rouse Properties. As of 2016, the mall recently got an H&M store and a CineMark cinema multiplex is being built on the old Mervyn's site. The CineMark looks like it is being built in the "NextGen" design and should be open later in 2016. I did notice a couple minor vacancies but they didn't appear like they were empty for too long. Overall, this mall seems to be doing pretty well.
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View from the second floor inside the Woodruff Arcade building.
More info on this very distinctive building, which is currently under threat of demolition:
chicago.curbed.com/2017/8/1/16070766/woodruff-arcade-edge...