2008 Winners ICSC 32nd Design and International Development ...

Renovation or Expansion of an Existing Project
Westfield San Francisco Centre
San Francisco, California, USA
DESIGN AWARD
Owner: Forest City Enterprises/Westfield, LLC
Management/Leasing Company: Westfield, LLC
Design Architect: RTKL Associates Inc./Westfield Design/KPF
(Kohn Pedersen Fox)
Production Architect: ka Architecture
Graphic Designer: Communication Arts, Inc.
Lighting Designer: Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Landscape Architect: Land Design
General Contractor: Westfield Corporation, Inc./Forest City
Commercial California
Development Company: Forest City Enterprises/Westfield, LLC
Total Retail Space: 1,212,688 sq. ft.
Number of Stores: 172
Following 90 years of operations, the former Emporium department store
building (once hailed as the “Grandest Mercantile Building in the World”)
fell into disrepair, ultimately shuttering its doors. After a near decade-long
development process, the nearly half billion dollar privately financed
renovation and expansion of the Emporium and adjacent Westfield
San Francisco Centre has become an iconic world-class destination.
Developed under a dynamic partnership between Forest City Development,
The Westfield Group, and Macy’s Inc., the new Westfield San Francisco
Centre offers a cutting-edge retail, entertainment, office, and dining
experience. The centre is anchored by a new 352,000-square-foot flagship
Bloomingdale’s, an existing Nordstrom’s, 172 specialty shops (many
new to the American market), a nine-screen cinema, gourmet food market,
and an outstanding collection of international and local restaurant
and casual dining offerings. The centre’s design preserves the Emporium’s
historic architecture in a significant new modern building. It integrates
seamlessly with mature and new downtown business and cultural districts
in nearby Union Square and Yerba Buena.
Westfield Topanga Expansion
and Renovation
Canoga Park, California
MERIT AWARD
Owner/Management Company: Westfield, LLC
Design/Production Architect: Westfield Design
Production Architect: Westfield Design
Graphic Designer:Sussman Prejza
Lighting Designer: Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Landscape Architect: Rios Clementi Hale Studios
General Contractor: Westfield, LLC
Development/Leasing/Finance Company: Westfield, LLC
Total Retail Space: 1,438,874 sq. ft.
Number of Stores: 275
With a construction cost of over $215 million, this project has successfully
integrated a new post-tension concrete structure with an existing
1960s steel and concrete mall, resulting in a seamless blend of renovation
and expansion. It features 1.6 million square feet of upscale retail,
ranging from Target to Neiman Marcus. Outside, thousands of new
drought-tolerant trees and plants lead into the interior of the mall where
large boulders, river rocks, fountains, and natural stone carve out a
spectacular section referred to as “the canyon.” An expansive skylight
brings in natural light during the day and theatrical lighting emulates a
sunset sky at night. The new dining terrace, perched on the second
level above the canyon, offers food preparation behind glass and served
up on proper china. The main shopping concourse continues to express
the outdoors-brought-indoors feel with large clerestory windows
offering views of the sky and large stands of bamboo on the exterior.
Opposite the clerestory glass windows are two-story stone and wood
columns. This, in addition to the new curved wood ceiling treatment and
cantilever glass rails throughout, has resulted in a retail center that is a
uniquely sophisticated destination for high fashion and upscale dining.