Original - New South China Mall, the world's largest mall (by gross leasable area), is 99% unoccupied.
Reason
David290 recently took a series of excellent photos to illustrate the
New South China Mall article. The New South China Mall is a marvel of overbuilding -- the world's largest (with room for over 2,000 stores), yet 99% unoccupied since its 2005 opening. The nominated photo shows an eerie combination of an empty public retail space with garish hanging decorations suited for a busy market (note the "for lease" signs hanging among the floating English alphabet characters.) I am hoping that selection as a Featured Picture would draw more attention to this fascinating article and David's gallery. This is the first time I have nominated a picture.
Neutral. It has fairly poor image quality but it's a significant subject and not a scene you see every day (although given the size of it, this is just the tip of the iceberg). I've uploaded a perspective corrected version of it but I'm not sure if I can support it because of the image quality.
Ðiliff«»(Talk)13:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Quality-wise, the photo is poor. It also does not illustrate the "eerie"-ness that the nominator refers to. It is difficult to see that this mall is in fact "empty" in any respect.--
mcshadyplTC21:25, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Hmm. Well, things aren't looking good for my nomination. I am not a photo expert so I can't argue much with your opinions on that. You visual types, though, would probably enjoy the PBS documentary short made about the mall
[1], it conveys the eerie nature of the huge empty space quite well. Cheers.--
Milowent (
talk)
22:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Original - New South China Mall, the world's largest mall (by gross leasable area), is 99% unoccupied.
Reason
David290 recently took a series of excellent photos to illustrate the
New South China Mall article. The New South China Mall is a marvel of overbuilding -- the world's largest (with room for over 2,000 stores), yet 99% unoccupied since its 2005 opening. The nominated photo shows an eerie combination of an empty public retail space with garish hanging decorations suited for a busy market (note the "for lease" signs hanging among the floating English alphabet characters.) I am hoping that selection as a Featured Picture would draw more attention to this fascinating article and David's gallery. This is the first time I have nominated a picture.
Neutral. It has fairly poor image quality but it's a significant subject and not a scene you see every day (although given the size of it, this is just the tip of the iceberg). I've uploaded a perspective corrected version of it but I'm not sure if I can support it because of the image quality.
Ðiliff«»(Talk)13:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Quality-wise, the photo is poor. It also does not illustrate the "eerie"-ness that the nominator refers to. It is difficult to see that this mall is in fact "empty" in any respect.--
mcshadyplTC21:25, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Hmm. Well, things aren't looking good for my nomination. I am not a photo expert so I can't argue much with your opinions on that. You visual types, though, would probably enjoy the PBS documentary short made about the mall
[1], it conveys the eerie nature of the huge empty space quite well. Cheers.--
Milowent (
talk)
22:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)reply