Blandness is bliss

When this structure was designed in the early fifties, it was to be the nation's first fully-enclosed, climate-controlled marvel of its kind. City-dwellers and suburbanites alike had high expectations for the space. The eyes of the nation were on Victor Gruen, an Austrian immigrant and commercial architect to whom the task was given. He had grand visions of a quaint European style structure that would be at the heart of a huge development containing schools, apartments, even a medical center. It was to be a gathering place, providing an atmosphere of excitement and entertainment. His original concept was never carried out.
-Wiki

Still, when it opened in 1956, it was a feat of engineering, a place where the residents of the city could escape the January cold and the July heat; a fantastic concept if the "climate control" could perhaps be sorted out. In winter, you can scarcely wait to rip your parka off when you enter because the heat is turned up so high. In summer, you best not go shopping without a light jacket because the aircon is blasting.

Through the years it's been renovated and expanded...huge sections have been added with no obvious thought to aesthetics. And the "gathering, entertaining" factor is zero as far as I'm concerned because I can't get the hell out of there fast enough after about an hour, max. Today, it is merely one of the many malls out here in Mid-America with nothing to distinguish it from the one ten miles away in the next suburb (if you even have to drive that far)

Yaawwn. I've just blipped myself to sleep.