malls | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/tag/malls/ Sustainable news for the Middle East Thu, 17 May 2012 11:14:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-logo_center_black_big-2-32x32.png malls | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/tag/malls/ 32 32 Dubai Radio Mauls Gulf’s Un-green Malls https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/05/gulf-malls-ungreen-review/ https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/05/gulf-malls-ungreen-review/#respond Thu, 17 May 2012 09:39:06 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=73229

Emirati malls suffer a blistering review in a 21 minute podcast on green retail. Radio station Dubai Eye 103.8 FM (which not long ago featured Green Prophet here) recently broadcast an interview with Buro Happold’s expert in sustainability and alternative technologies, Robert Cooke. Cooke, who is also Technical Committee Coordinator of Emirates Green Building Council, begins by saying […]

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The Taj mall in Amman, Jordan seems as current and eco-sensitive as a polyester leisure suit. Costing in excess of $170 million and with a total floor area of 150,000 square meters, Amman’s newest mega-project is located in a middle class residential area, skirted by vacant lots of grazing goats and humble concrete houses.  Access to its underground car park […]

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