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Originally Posted by guesswho
^ Agreed. If anyone has been to Singapore - the Vivo City Mall (probably the same size or larger than Northbridge) sets the gold standard for urban malls in my opinion.
I kind of wish Navy Pier was a virtual reincarnation of Vivo City, so then us local Chicagoans would actually want to spend time at Navy Pier alongside the tourists.
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I went there last year - it's rather an interesting mall. I didn't find it anything that special to be honest, though the building design was cool and the fact that a tram goes directly to it is also cool (you can technically find that in Arlington, VA too).
It's much different than the mall in Chicago though because in reality, it's not really surrounded by much. It's next to water, but there's a bunch of open land across the street from it and actually quite a bit around it that's fairly open. You have to go a little north of that before it starts filling up and even then, while there's many high rises there they are more suburban and have some space between them. Which in Singapore is nice because that whole area is so lush.
This is what I'm talking about which is not that far from Vivo City:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...06581093_n.jpg
A shot of the mall:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...710b86cc3bb23f
Area just a little west of Vivo:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...76272405_n.jpg
I do think that a better comparison is Navy Pier though - but they're still completely different things. Navy Pier is more of an entertainment center with touristy things while Vivo City is a legitimate mall. I do think they should adopt the Tram thing though.
Also, some interesting architecture outside of that:
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/...67449878_n.jpg