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Arndale Centre - design & construction
Click here for an insight into the design and construction of Cross Gates' Arndale Shopping Centre.
The first indoor out-of-town shopping centre ever to be built in the UK, The Arndale Centre, was based on the hugely-successful American mall.
Undercover shopping was a relatively new concept when designers first identified Cross Gates as a potential site for development. The very first enclosed mall in the USA was opened in 1956, just 10 years before work on the Arndale Centre began.
The initial sketches for Cross Gates' Arndale Shopping Centre imagined a comfortable, convenient, open-plan shopping area, based on the very latest trends in architectural design, and accompanied by a tremendously convenient on-site carpark accommodating over 400 cars.
The stylish roof was to become the Centre's hallmark - ingeniously enabling the people of Cross Gates to do all their shopping in one place, safe and protected, whatever the weather.
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