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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): Queens Place Mall (former Macy’s building), 1965

  • New York City, New York, USA, Show on map
  • #COM #North America
  • Innovative, automobile- centered shopping mall from the 1960s.

    The building was constructed in 1965 by Macy's and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Originally, the building was to be completely circular and replace several apartment blocks. As a local resident did not want to sell her detached house, the shopping center was redesigned with a small cut-out at one corner to make use of the airspace on the plot in question. 

  • In use.