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  • Petrolia Mall Design Party puts Strip Appeal ideas to work!

    As part of continuing Strip Appeal activities The CRSC recently hosted a Design Party to proactively re-imagine Petrolia Mall, Edmonton. Residents used the Strip Appeal designs as inspiration for coming up with their own ideas for redesigning Petrolia Mall as the following article in the Edmonton Journal outlines: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Residents+offer+input+Petrolia+shopping+centre+revitalization/7911053/story.html

  • Strip Appeal opens at UB Anderson Gallery

    The Strip Appeal Tour has kicked off in style opening at the UB Anderson Gallery on17th November! Exhibition Information: What: Strip Appeal: Reinventing the Strip Mall is an ideas design competition and traveling exhibit initiated by the City-Region Studies Centre (CRSC) at the University of Alberta intended to stimulate and showcase creative proposals for the…

  • Strip Appeal Design Charette

    A hands on workshop to explore the planning, design and business implications of proposals for new approaches to suburban neighbourhood retail. This charette will help participants implement insights from strip-appeal.com, an international design competition to reimagine the strip mall. The presenters and facilitators have experience with urban design and retail planning. The workshop is offered…

  • Strip Appeal Designs Disscussed In the New York Times

      How About Gardening or Golfing at the Mall –  The New York Times   "Designers in Buffalo have proposed stripping down a mall to its foundation and reinventing it as housing, while an aspiring architect in Detroit has proposed turning a mall’s parking lot there into a community farm. Columbus, Ohio, arguing that it…

  • The Winners Announced!

    We are delighted to Announce the Winners of Strip Appeal. JURY WINNER = Free Zoning JURY RUNNER-UP = Park(ed) Mall PUBLIC VOTE = Unbox-Embrace-Cohere JURY WINNER = Free Zoning by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis (Davidson Rafailidis) Site: Buffalo, NY In this submission Davidson and Rafailidis take a derelict strip mall site in Buffalo, NY…

  • Public Vote Function Now Active!

    Have Your Say in the Strip Appeal Strip Mall Design Competition Public Choice Vote! The Public Choice Vote is now Active! Voting runs till Mon Jan 16th 12 noon MST You can vote for your favourite from the shortlist and have your say in the Public Choice Winner. How the vote system works on the…

  • Public Vote and Winners Party

    Please join Dr. Rob Shields and Dr. Merle Patchett for the announcement of winners for Strip-Appeal in the Atrium, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave, Monday Jan. 16 2012, 5-7pm. Snacks are being provided from Nomad Food Truck and wine from Devine Wines (cash bar). As of Monday (9th Jan) you can vote for your favourite…

  • The Jury has decided… but we are keeping you in suspense!

    The Jury have met and made their decision regarding the Winner and Runner Up. We are going to keep you in suspense however as we want to make the announcement in tandem with the Public Choice winner at the Strip Appeal Announcement Party on Jan 16th. The voting for the Public Choice winner will begin…

  • Shotlist Available to View

    Shotlist Available to View

    To view the shortlist click here. We are also deciding on another 20 ‘notable’ submissions that will be featured in an website gallery. These 40 submissions (the shortlist and the notables) will then be open to the public vote from Jan 10th-17th. In the future we hope to have all 100+ submissions archived an available…

  • Strip Appeal Shortlist

    The shortlist has been decided and those who made the list have been contacted. The standard of submissions was extremely high, so much so that the selection committee decided on a shortlist of 20. The shortlist reflects the range in innovation and approach that was present across all 100+ submissions.   Unfortunately, due to the…