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Living Mall
Situated in Taipei Songshan District, Taiwan, Core Pacific City is probably the weirdest shopping mall in Asia. When it first opened, it was touted as the world’s first truly 24 hour mall and Asia’s first “city within a city” complex. Covering a total area of 205, 000 sq. m, this urban property was designed by Jon Jerde, known as, the Pablo Picasso of the architecture world.
Opened in 2001, Living Mall is built in a design that combines an L-shaped building and the biggest globe structure in the world. The building looks like a gigantic golf ball being embraced by a stone sarcophagus. With a unique design, the mall has a total of nineteen floors – 12 above-ground stories and 7 underground levels. The sphere is 11 stories tall and made of granite imported from Finland, while the L-shaped portion is made of granite from Spain.
The structure incorporated a special spherical design spanning over 135,000 sq. m. of shopping space, with over 15,000 sq. m. of lawn surrounding the building. Living Mall offers a comfortable, elegant shopping environment with various intimate services such as lost & found, nursery, baby car, wheelchair, and shopping consultations. The fourth floor is a Broadway-themed music cafe, Elite books on the tenth floor, and Xland on the 12th floor all operate until 2am. Jerde won the 2002 Gold Nugget Special Award of Excellence at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference/Western Building Show for its effort.
