In Christchurch, a shopping district with shipping containers

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Eco on Friday 29 March 2013

After the Christchurch quake, the site of a mall destroyed in the natural disaster on Cashel Street has now seen a revival of shopping activity with shipping containers that now form temporary retail spaces. Shipping containers are just so darn cool.

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Westfield London

Casper Johansson Reader Find

By Casper Johansson in Cool Travel on Wednesday 29 October 2008

Westfield London is a cool shopping destination with a nice mix of high end labels, high street bargains, and 49 restaurants. The centre has over 265 luxury, premium and high street retailers — most of them fashion-focused.

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Alphaville

Fernanda Cohen Reader Find

By Fernanda Cohen in Cool Travel on Friday 3 October 2008

Located on West Houston, Alphaville is my favorite gift store in Manhattan. It offers a great selection of vintage objects, from Nixon’s campaign buttons, to Sesame Street 80s mobiles, 50s greeting cards and the original Mr. Potato Head and his friends. It’s one of those places I walk into just to look but always end [...]

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Brian Ulrich

Alison Zavos Contributor

By Alison Zavos in New Photography on Wednesday 10 September 2008

I love the sense of intimacy about the work of Chicago-based photographer, Brian Ulrich. His retail project Copia ‘is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live’. We interviewed him recently and asked him what camera he uses once he gets inside a store he’s photographing:

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