Welcome back to Sunday Selections!
This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a
way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to
showing on our blogs.
The rules are very simple:-
1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections
title
2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post
3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and
see what you've posted.
I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm
continuing with some photos of the Rundle Place development.
this is the
Grenfell Street entrance to the new Rundle Place....I suppose you could call it a Mall since it has many shops in the one location.
see that
crane way up high? They're still constructing.
I'm guessing the upper floors will be office areas for all the stores down below.
I like this
mannequin display. For the Mother's Day week they were all dressed in pink.
I love the
shiny floors on the ground floor. (I want them in my house...)
See those white rings?
they're reflections of these
lights, which I love.
I'm not sure I like the
seats though. There are nicer looking ones downstairs.
the
lights in the downstairs Food Hall are also circular, echoing the ones on the ground floor. I particularly like that the
support posts have light rings too.
this is the
Rundle Mall entrance.
here we see the
Rundle Mall entrance from the inside, with the staircase and escalators down to the
food hall, which has many options for
meals and snacks as well as a
newsagency, a
chemist and several other stores that I haven't taken notice of yet.
also downstairs is a shiny new
Coles supermarket.
from the Grenfell Street entrance there are escalators that lead straight down into the supermarket.
A friend of mine transferred in from her previous store, she said it was very exciting working in a new store on its opening day, but after that it was the
same old job, just a different location.
a bird's eye view of a couple of the
self-serve checkouts. They have these at both ends of the store.
this is the
lower ground entrance you come to after walking through the
Food Hall.
I'll get back there one day and take more photos of the other shops on the ground and upper floors.
but
next week, I'll have
something different for you to look at.
No shops, I promise.
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It is ages since I have been to Adelaide, and it looks so very different. I love those lights, but those seats don't win my heart either. Mind you, neither do Malls. I like looking at your photos MUCH more than I suspect I would like the Mall itself. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI must go back there for a good look around .... it's really very "posh" for Adelaide.
ReplyDeleteIt is still a shame that they didn't leave any of the original building in the new one, even if just as a stone in the floor. But such a fancy new mall! Beautiful and shiny.
ReplyDeleteWow, that place sure is ultra modern looking. It reminds me of the kinda places that were only imagined in the '50s.
ReplyDeleteWow that is really something and thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI personally don't like huge shopping centres but mainly because I can only walk short distances and for me there are never enough seats, no matter what they look like. I can imagine people actually lying down on the one you showed a picture of! : )
Look forward to next week's "something different" but more shops are always interesting too.
Elephant's Child; there are many parts of Adelaide that look just as they used to, the Town Hall and the GPO opposite which is no longer a GPO but the building is the same. So far. The Beehive Corner building is the same, depending on how long ago you've been here, I think there was some upgrading done to make it cleaner and brighter.
ReplyDeleteDianne; it's "posh" in the way that David Jones was "posh" when all other stores were just shops and DJs had the gloss, the marble floors, the baby grand piano with the player tinkling out classical music.
Cindi; maybe there is a commemorative piece somewhere, maybe a stone or something similar, a photo of the original building framed and hung, I don't know how to find out.
Susan; it's shiny and new without being overdone. Quite classy actually, I like it.
Mimsie; I'll share photos of the other floors and shops as i take them, I'll have to get there at times when there aren't so many people about. I don't like to inadvertently get them in photos that might appear on the internet.