Unique B.C. shopping mall breaks Asian-theme mould, has eye-catching design

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2004 / February 1

Thomas Fung doesn't seem to think it's risky to raze a perfectly good 11-year-old shopping mall just because the foot traffic slows a little. When Aberdeen Centre opened here in the early 1990s, it was the first large, Asian-themed mall in Canada, spawning imitators across the country. Its success rode a wave of new Chinese immigrants, mainly from Hong Kong. Many settled in this southern suburb, seeing good fortune in a city whose name sounded like Rich Man and, like Hong Kong, had jetliners swooping low overhead to nearby Vancouver International Airport

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