Briarwood Mall
Ann Arbor, Michigan - circa early '80s
The beautifully designed terraced cieling, along with the lavender carpeting and multiple fountain arrangement, mixes to form quite the intoxicating retro mall coctail, don't you think? I could sure get drunk on it!
Mall history: 1973 - present
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Previous entries: 1
posted by Keith @ 6/04/2006
10 Comments:
That's quite the plume of water shooting into the air! Must've been a big place back in its heyday.
Must have been a Taubman center at one time. It has the same floor as Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton.
Scott
Briarwood was indeed a Taubman center; it got sold to Mills a couple years ago
Taubman malls definitly did look ahead of their time back then. The angles, the large courts / atriums, those fountains...ahh..I can just feel the mist on my back right now.
They designed Woodfield down in IL, and also had a hand in designing twin malls Northridge and Southridge in the Milwaukee WI area.
Gotta love the Florsheim, which must have been in every mall center court in the '70s.
I just noticed the Hudson's around the left side.
What happened to Florsheim? There really was one in every mall (along with Radio Shack).
Scott
For some reason the ceiling in this picture of this mall look very much like the ceilings at Woodfield. Are companies like Taubman known for doing distinctive things like this?
Nice looking interior!
Great sense of humor! I really enjoy reading your comments on the photos.
Briarwood has always been a fairly upscale mall. Lord & Taylor was an anchor from the early 1980's to maybe 2000? It was replaced by Jacobson's and then Von Maur. The mall was a Taubman property until 2004.
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