| Shopping mall is one of the architecture building's types which developed rapidly and tended to mature in the west in 20th Century. At the same time, as it is the reflection of modern commercial operation, management and social life, it became one of the most advanced and the most representative of architectures types. Shopping mall is just at its beginning and is paid much attention to in China. Because shopping mall's space and structure affect architecture design greatly, this article summarized the common characters of shopping mall's space and structure through space and structure in philosophy and cases all over the world. Presently shopping mall's scale expanding, the number increasing, space become systematization and complication, research on shopping mall's space and structure can make consumers realize shopping aim quickly and guide architect design this type of building frame and theory, through data search, we found this problem has not deeply researched still in our country, so the meaning of this article is very important. |