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The standard for luxury malls in the Middle East and Asia can be pretty high, so if it is some sort of international play it matters for sure.
by njepa 7y ago
The standard for luxury malls in the Middle East and Asia can be pretty high, so if it is some sort of international play it matters for sure.
- txcwpalpha 7y agoI have been to many 'luxury' malls in places in Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and they suffer from the same small insignificant 'flaws' just like the ones mentioned in this article. In fact, many of the luxury developments in Asia and the Middle East (Singapore, Qatar, and the UAE especially) are notorious for cutting corners by using underskilled, underpaid labor to build these luxury developments, causing cut sloppy work. I would say the standards are only 'pretty high' if you only look skin deep.
- throwvatars 7y agoGoing by your judgement, Boeing too had underskilled and underpaid labor ? Because they too cut corners.
- txcwpalpha 7y agoI'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. I said that certain malls that are known to use underpaid and underskilled laborers suffer from cut corners. That does not mean that all cut corners are a result of underpaid and underskilled labor.
- njepa 7y agoThere is of course plenty of random luxury developments in those places, but high end malls tend to be pretty good. At least in the elaborate-sloppy ratio, as different developments will be competing for the high end brands. But looking more at Hudson Yards it looks more like a random mall, in which case it probably doesn't matter much.