The art and science of navigation (finding your way)
Do people get lost in shopping centres? Do they lose their car in the carpark? According to Kelvin Taylor, if...
Do people get lost in shopping centres? Do they lose their car in the carpark? According to Kelvin Taylor, if...
‘Time’ is a critical factor in our business and it affects decisions we make on a wide variety of fronts....
HNC – Human-Nature Connectedness. The more urban we become, the less we connect with nature. More than ever, our everyday...
There is a worldwide initiative underway to create ‘after-dark’ experiences in major cities. Such experiences don’t just afford people pleasure...
Baby Boomers are the biggest spenders; but they’re on the way out; Gen Z is on the way in and...
It’s a given that a good ‘Customer Experience’ is vital to the success of any business. And as shopping centre...
‘A city without poets, painters and photographers is sterile’. It’s a quote from this article. That being the case, what...
This article by Kelvin Taylor, Project Director, Associate at Diadem was featured in the latest issue of Shopping Centre News...
The best design is a product, service or environment that provides for, and enables, maximum use by as many people...
As we become more socially responsible and more caring about our environment, the practice of knocking down buildings in order...
There’s Augmented Reality (AR); then we’ve got XR – a combination of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Retailers and retail...
We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution! It’s an age of ‘connectivity’ – connecting the physical world with...
It’s remarkable how the focus has changed. Twenty years or so ago, if you talked about ‘Community’ in our business,...
Iconic buildings derived from transnational architecture can portray a city or place as progressive but sometimes at the cost of...
Kelvin Taylor takes us on a design tour of Hong Kong. We find new streets, a critique (well more of...
You walk into a centre; what do you see? How the space around you presents will influence your mood. Everything...
If you’re happy at work, chances are you’ll produce more! It follows therefore that if the building you use –...
The current events of the Banking Royal Commission has placed the corporate world on high alert with respect to promoting...
We love this article by Kelvin Taylor and Rebecca Townsend! Our centres are ‘Community Focal Points’. One of the features...
‘Branding’ has been, is, and will be a hot topic, well into the future. One of the difficulties in defining...
Until recently the shopping centre car park has been viewed as a back-of-house area that has had little design thought...