This week, Stockland’s sustainability credentials have been celebrated on the world stage, achieving recognition as the only Australian property company on the...
Category - Trends
Sidone Thomas was the inaugural winner of the Frank Lowy Fellowship Award. Part of her prize was to attend the World Retail Congress in Madrid. She extended...
Cinemas in shopping centres only occurred in the 1990s. Look at new usages – from mobile phones to sporting footwear – and what you see is a society in...
Kelvin Taylor takes us on a design tour of Hong Kong. We find new streets, a critique (well more of an appreciation) of the renowned Pacific Place and a pair...
How often do we think of our shoppers’ ‘wellbeing’? And how do we provide for it? It’s all part of the ‘experience’ and it’s significantly influential on...
The creativity, speed and fabulousness of our retail and hospitality industry progresses and retailers, operators and landlords alike continue to innovate and...
You walk into a centre; what do you see? How the space around you presents will influence your mood. Everything from the columns, the texture of the floor, the...
It can be argued that the retail environment is changing at a faster pace than ever before. Understanding what’s next for bricks-and-mortar retail is essential...
If you’re happy at work, chances are you’ll produce more! It follows therefore that if the building you use – be it commercial, industrial, retail or...
The Australian risk free rate has been rising since mid 2016 following a global trend. Bond yields, rate rises, cap rates – all heady stuff but the absolute...
A local destination with an international audience As Sydney continues to grow into its well-deserved reputation as an important global city straddling East...
The current events of the Banking Royal Commission has placed the corporate world on high alert with respect to promoting and protecting their brand values and...
Over 125 years at Chas Clarkson, we’ve witnessed a lot of changes in the way shopping centres present Christmas. We now design, produce and install Christmas...
Gough Recruitment’s focus is to stay on top of the constantly evolving job market. Here they list the top five recruitment trends that dominate the Real...
We love this article by Kelvin Taylor and Rebecca Townsend! Our centres are ‘Community Focal Points’. One of the features that link us all, as humans, is ‘art’...
Australia has mass-produced cars for decades, but that has all ended this year with the closure of Toyota’s Altona manufacturing facility on October 4, and the...
Once a guerrilla marketing tactic, pop-up stores are now deeply integrated in today’s retail landscape, becoming a core strategy for many brands...
We know that department stores are being hit hard these days. This has played out particularly in the US with long-term retailers such as JCPenney announcing...
Late American designer Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014) said, "Design is totally integrated into our daily lives.
Today the shopping experience is becoming less about performing a transaction and more about creating spaces where people can immerse themselves in an...
With the continued growth of online retail in Australia – which last year accounted for more than $20 billion in domestic sales for the first time in its short...
In an increasingly 'more is more' world, shopping centre groups are realising the necessity to develop centres that provide more than just a shopping...
The chatter about Amazon’s launch over the last 12 months has been steadily growing, with several reports now talking deeply about the timing and impact on...
A recent journal article released by JLL states that, within five years, placemaking is likely to be a key differentiator amongst commercial assets..
Millennials – young adults in their twenties and thirties – are set to occupy a greater share of retail spend as they transition into the next phase of life.
‘Branding’ has been, is, and will be a hot topic, well into the future. One of the difficulties in defining branding is...
Until recently the shopping centre car park has been viewed as a back-of-house area that has had little design thought or embellishment...
As the traditional anecdote goes, “from little things, big things grow”. Now, in part due to digital disruption, it would seem the opposite is true...
