Malls have the potential to be more than industrial shopping centers; well-designed mall interiors can push into the boundaries of high art and modern technology. Whether designing a new development or overhauling an existing building, mall interior designers strive to create something transcendental.

Often incorporated into mixed-use developments that include offices, hotels, and green spaces, today’s shopping centers feel more like town squares than traditional malls. Eye-catching materials, art installations, and landscaping enhance the latest designs from top firms such as Sou Fujimoto, UNStudio, and Heatherwick Studio.

Shopping Centers, or malls, are the typical destination for the usual hangouts. More than being merely shopping centers, as they started out to be, now they have become complete entertainment centers with restaurants, cafés, movie theaters, arcade games, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and many other enjoyment venues.

Eye-catching materials, art installations, and landscaping enhance the latest designs from top firms such as Sou Fujimoto, UNStudio, and Heatherwick Studio. Tour the most beautiful retail destinations around the world, from a transformed mall in Melbourne to a colorful shopping center in Sweden.

A well-designed atrium adds to the grandiose of the experience and to the enjoyment of the mall visitors. Now, we will list to you some of the world’s most interesting shopping mall designs. Check them out and get inspired. The fluently connected volumes, inspired by traditional Chinese architecture, are the creation of Zaha Hadid Architects.

Architecture firm Wingårdhs designed the vibrant Emporia shopping center in Malmö, Sweden. The building is arranged in a three-story figure eight with a rooftop park and the stores are situated around color-themed atriums. Elizabeth Stamp is a freelance lifestyle and design writer and editor based in Los Angeles.