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Quality centre mall
Located along Nyerere road Dar es salaam, quality centre stands as shopping icon. This is the first mall in Temeke municipal.
Completed in 2011, The Quality Centre mall in Dar es Salaam is a fully air-conditioned, integrated, and state-of-the-art retail, entertainment, and office complex – currently the largest of its kind in east and central Africa. It was built to offers mixed-use retail outlets, super markets, restaurants, family entertainment centers, banks, and movie theaters.
The architecture of quality centre is amazing from outside to inside. The huge box covered with reflective blue glasses and alucobond at the top is seen from Nyerere road. The parking, the emphasis at the entrance the logo at the top of the building are arranged well.
The entrance has automatic doors which bring to the grand lobby of three storeys high. The main corridor to the shops starts by articulated pillar/column, surrounded by LED lights.
The walk ways are arranged as the main river with small channels run out of it. The main corridor has the atrium of double stories, and it is a public area of the whole mall.
There are benches along the main corridor for people to rest and when you look up to the ceiling, there is an illusion of clouds, so it makes people to feel as if they are outside, more close to nature.
The mall has ground and mezzanine floor for retail spaces. There are stairs and escalators to move people vertically to the mezzanine floor.
All shops are arranged to look at the atrium, so one can almost see all shops from any point. The other floors above the mezzanine are for offices and administration.
Quality centre attract people from outside, it got 14000 visitors on weekends. Big companies in business are in quality centre such as Cineplex, Savanna Lounge, Uchumi Shopping Center, Tigo, Samsung, sub way, fun spot, and many others.
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