全球最不可思议的11个大型购物中心
爱思英语编者按:世界上最寒冷的商场可不只是购物的地方哦。你可以在这些商场里度假甚至生活。它们不仅以各种店铺为荣,而且提供从婚礼教堂到室内滑雪场的各种服务。 The 11 Most Incredible Shopping Malls In The World The world's coolest malls are much more than places to go shopping.You can practically vacation or even live inside these malls. Not only do they boast a variety of shops, but everything from wedding chapels to indoor ski slopes. Siam Paragon Location: Bangkok Gross Leasable Area: 2.5 million sq ft Why it's cool: Siam Paragon is the ninth largest mall in Asia, complete with a movie theater, opera hall, bowling alley, karaoke, 5-star hotel, art gallery, and Siam Ocean World Aquarium.Opened in 2005, it includes a variety of specialty stores and restaurants as well as a gourmet grocery store. Mall of America Location: Bloomington, Minn. Gross Leasable Area: 2.77 million sq ft Why it's cool: This massive mall has a theme park and a wedding chapel, where more than 5,000 couples have been married since its opening. Mall of America opened in 1992 and is the third largest mall in North America. The mall has a gross area of 4,200,000 sq ft available as retail space. That's enough to fit seven Yankee stadiums inside of it!http://www.engbus.cn英语巴士网 Mall of America is the most visited shopping mall in the world with more than 40 million visitors annually (or roughly eight times the population of the state of Minnesota). Spending 10 minutes in every store would take a shopper more than 86 hours to complete their visit to Mall of America. The mall includes a cinema, Nickelodeon Universe theme park, aquarium, adventure golf, flight simulators, and a comedy house. Mall of Emirates Location: Dubai Gross Leasable Area: 2.4 million sq ft Why it's cool: Although it features the usual amenities for a mall (a fourteen-screen movie theater, a gaming arena, the typical variety of stores, and a drama theater), its biggest claim to fame is the Middle East's first indoor ski slope, Ski Dubai.With the ski area, one of the largest in the world, the Mall of the Emirates sets itself apart from the dozen or so other newly completed malls in Dubai and the surrounding emirates.The mall also has a theme park called Magic Planet. Magic Planet is the largest indoor family entertainment centre in Dubai |