Forum Buenavista is a shopping mall built atop the Buenavista Station in central

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, where Avenida de los Insurgentes meets Eje 1 Norte. It was developed by GICSA, opened in 2009, and as of 2015 it was one of the ten largest malls in

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. While the train station and tracks occupy the ground floor, the mall occupies three floors above, stretching 400 meters from south to north. It is anchored by the

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, and

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department stores; Best Buy,

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, H&M, and more than 50 freestanding and food-court restaurants, including

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Criticism

The center has only one pedestrian entrance at its southwest corner, to the north of which the building fronts the city's iconic Avenida de los Insurgentes boulevard with a 500-meter-long parking garage, with entrances only for cars. Alejandro Hernández, editor of ''Arquine'', stated that Forum Buenavista "is an example of architecture that does nothing but decompose its environment. It shows contempt for the city and its inhabitants, and creates an unforgiving and hostile cityscape for pedestrians. If Insurgentes, being 30 meters wide, is already unsettling for the pedestrian, then decorating its sides with car-prisons makes it the end of the pedestrian."

References

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