• Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum (July 18, 1903 – February 14, 1980), was an Austrian-American architect best known as a pioneer in the design...
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  • It is named after Austrian architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of such manipulative techniques. The Gruen transfer is a psychological phenomenon...
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    Southdale Center (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    Buster's, AMC Theatres, Hennepin Service Center, and Life Time Athletic. Victor Gruen, the center's architect, designed the mall to challenge the "car-centric"...
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    architect and American immigrant Victor Gruen. This new generation of regional-size shopping centers began with the Gruen-designed Southdale Center, which...
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    Cherry Hill Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    October 11, 1961 as the Cherry Hill Shopping Center, designed by architect Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company. It was the first indoor,...
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    Westfield Culver City (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    developed by Ernest W. Hahn, Inc. and Carter Hawley Hale Properties, Inc. Gruen Associates were the project architects, but The Broadway was designed by...
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    with different owners), then enclosed shopping malls starting with Victor Gruen's Southdale Center near Minneapolis in 1956. A shopping mall is a type...
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    Kalamazoo Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    was designed by Victor Gruen, who three years earlier had designed the country's first enclosed shopping mall. A native of Austria, Gruen had been hired...
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    Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York) (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    indoor shopping mall designed by Victor Gruen and opened in 1962. Although it was primarily promoted as a retail space, Gruen's vision was for the plaza to...
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    Twelve Oaks Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    1978. The mall was designed by Gruen Associates, founded by the pioneer of the American shopping mall Victor Gruen, and Richard Prince. The head builder...
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    Northland Center (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    milestone for regional shopping centers in the United States. Designed by Victor Gruen, the mall initially included a four-level Hudson's with a ring of stores...
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    South Coast Plaza (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    late 1966 and Sears, the initial phase of the center was designed by Victor Gruen. It was built the same year as The Irvine Company's nearby Fashion Island...
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    in 1954. That year, the Hudson's department store chain and architect Victor Gruen developed Northland Center in the Detroit suburb of Southfield. It was...
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    architects from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect/planner Victor Gruen's plans to convert the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair was also...
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    tradition. Many of the urban designs of modern Tehran are attributed to Victor Gruen. Gruen devised a master plan for many of northern Tehran's neighborhoods...
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    designed the grandstand and the main racing strip. Associate architect was Victor Gruen Associates of Los Angeles. The construction of the facility was undertaken...
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  • In 1940 she married the architect Victor Gruen with whom she had two children. The couple created the firm Gruen & Krummeck. In New York the firm worked...
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    with catalogue sales. In the post-war period, an American architect, Victor Gruen developed a concept for a shopping mall; a planned, self-contained shopping...
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    1970s Frederick G. Gruen, son of Dietrich Gruen, player in Gruen Watch Company George J. Gruen, son of Dietrich Gruen, player in the Gruen Watch Company Georges...
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  • Park Lane Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    As it grew, became the leading area mall. Original architects were Victor Gruen Associates and Charles Luckman Associates. At the main opening ceremonies...
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    Sporting Life. When the planned shopping centre format was developed by Victor Gruen in the early to mid-1950s, signing larger department stores was necessary...
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    Company built M4 Sherman tanks in Hammond during World War II. Architect Victor Gruen designed the Woodmar Mall in the Woodmar neighborhood. The mall opened...
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    Lakehurst Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    The mall was designed by Sidney H. Morris and Associates of Chicago and Gruen Associates of Los Angeles; Initially, Arthur Rubloff & Co. of Chicago was...
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    Southland Center (Michigan) (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    largest mall owners in the United States. Southland Center was designed by Victor Gruen Associates and Louis G. Redstone Associates, and the newly formed Dayton-Hudson...
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    Scientist Church (1957); Alpha Beta Shopping Center (1960) (demolished) Victor Gruen: City National Bank (now Bank of America) (1959) (designed as an homage...
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    Eastland Center (Michigan) (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    Developer J.L. Hudson Corporation Owner NorthPoint Development Architect Victor Gruen No. of stores and services 2 No. of anchor tenants 6 (2 open, 4 vacant)...
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    construction of the Bank of New Mexico Building around the same time. Architect Victor Gruen, who was a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, designed the mall. Winrock...
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    Iranian architect Abd-ol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian and the American firm of Victor Gruen Associates identified the main problems blighting the city as high-density...
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    Boulevard. It was designed in the International Style by renowned architect Victor Gruen (1903-1980) and completed in 1962. It was built by the Buckeye Construction...
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    Randhurst Village (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    (a.k.a. "the Fair"), on its anchor store. Randhurst was designed by Victor Gruen, a pioneer of modern shopping mall design. Unlike most shopping malls...
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