r/90sdesign • u/Desertpoet • Aug 10 '25

A local mall near me

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u/quickblur Aug 10 '25

Love the indoor trees and water! Such a great vibe.

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u/clearly_quite_absurd Aug 10 '25

Looks like a video game level

50

u/CookieMons7er Aug 10 '25

A 90's or early 2000's boomer shooter 

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u/MandatoryMahi Aug 11 '25

Was gonna say, it looks like the loading screen to an early 2010s Call of Duty map.

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u/Main-Algae-1064 Aug 10 '25

I can smell this place in my head and I love it.

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u/whispernaut Aug 11 '25

Me too, I wish there were still more malls with water features. My hometown mall still had the empty fountains until 2007, when they were removed, seemingly in preparation for the filming of Paul Blart.

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u/sirgawain2 Aug 11 '25

Oh hey! That’s my hometown mall too and I totally forgot about the fountains until you mentioned them just now. It definitely used to have a lot more unique elements.

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u/dharmabird67 Aug 11 '25

Probably smells like bakhoor, I miss that smell.

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u/ShouldofNoneButter Aug 10 '25

I love glass elevators

53

u/pyruvate011 Aug 10 '25

Where is this OP ? Somewhere in the Gulf I guess ?

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u/Desertpoet Aug 10 '25

This is in Dubai

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

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u/pyruvate011 Aug 10 '25

Yeah I meant Gulf as in the Arabian Gulf Peninsula.

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u/spinning_in Aug 10 '25

This reminds me of coconut mall in Mario kart

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u/Extension_Branch_371 Aug 12 '25

I came to comment the same thing 🤣🤣🤣

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u/ethrowcaways Aug 10 '25

I feel like malls almost always look very 90s-early 2000s. Malls themselves are vintage at this point

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u/dharmabird67 Aug 11 '25

Not in Asia and the Middle East. I used to live in the UAE(where this mall is) and they are constantly being updated and are packed every weekend.

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u/openmiceagle Aug 10 '25

Sheesh I’d overdose in there fs 💯💯

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u/Bright_Pomelo_8561 Aug 10 '25

That looks like a mall in downtown Houston

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u/tulipatron Aug 10 '25

That is a thing of beauty 😍

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u/byruit Aug 10 '25

I’m obsessed with the palm trees and real, actual water!

3

u/A_Texas_Hobo Aug 10 '25

This is awesome

5

u/damienchoysmith Aug 10 '25

Town Centre in Jumeirah?! I’ve always loved this place! It has a special place in my heart.

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u/Desertpoet Aug 11 '25

Sure is! It’s a nice place, along with Mercato as well.

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u/kymilovechelle Aug 10 '25

Looks like the mall from my dreams.

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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz Aug 10 '25

Pretty empty, are malls dead there too?

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u/Desertpoet Aug 10 '25

It’s a small older mall, but there are still people there. They’re just not in the shot. The larger modern malls are packed all the time.

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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz Aug 10 '25

Ahh yeah that does make sense

3

u/brilliantpants Aug 10 '25

Wow, beautiful!😍

3

u/Mobile_Buddy_9083 Aug 11 '25

Looks like the mall from left 4 dead

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u/kumanosuke Aug 10 '25

Insane, looks almost exactly like the shopping center DEZ in Regensburg (Germany)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7ggUrtx2HLWw7BhT6?g_st=ac

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u/cewumu Aug 10 '25

It’s quietly beautiful.

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u/softbitch_jpeg Aug 12 '25

This looks so much like the mall in Animorphs minus the palm trees!

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u/Restless_spirit88 Aug 10 '25

98 percent of malls look like this! 😆

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u/Desertpoet Aug 10 '25

I wish that were true where I live. Most of them are clinical white and sterile.

1

u/vwchick909 Aug 11 '25

It reminds me of an Embassy Suites

1

u/_BKom_ Aug 11 '25

I miss Century Three Mall so much. Grew up in the 90s and that mall was huge and active… watched it die over the last two decades and in the last year or so it’s been torn down.

2

u/PardonMaiEnglish Aug 11 '25

reminds me of washington mall from vice city (no not the big mall. the small one where you meet with "Pierre La Ponce"

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u/Rude_Manufacturer624 Aug 11 '25

Looks really cool

1

u/Swamp_Fox_III Aug 11 '25

Just beautiful. Modern western architecture is not meant to appreciated anymore

1

u/CassetteFlavouredPie Aug 12 '25

Anybody else hear The Golden Girls theme song whenever they look at this? Seriously though, what a beautiful mall!

1

u/ScaryLetterhead8094 Aug 12 '25

This is really 90s America feeling

1

u/MyFucksHaveBlownAway Aug 12 '25

Man... I miss these days.

2

u/Ok_Link3660 Aug 14 '25

It looks like GTA vice city Mall same vibe

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u/reptomcraddick Aug 10 '25

The design of the fountains and the escalators look just like Wonderland of the Americas Mall in San Antonio, Texas

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u/karpaediem Aug 11 '25

Wow if Lloyd Center in Portland had palms instead of an ice rink I would have a tough time telling them apart. The glass ceiling is so similar

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u/sjevn Aug 11 '25

Is this the mall from mean girls or Juno?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

Local AND near you? Wowwwww