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Christmas is coming… but before that, it’s Halloween!
This year, celebrate Halloween in style with spooky lights and scary-or-fun décor that is guaranteed to appeal to all ages and that creates...
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Why Christmas needs to be the main event for shopping centers and retail spaces in 2020
The bottom line: COVID-19 has changed the world. People feel unsure and unsafe, but they still want to come together and share memorable...
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Spread a message of optimism and fill your space with a #SUMMER atmosphere!
As the world slowly emerges from lockdown, cities and public spaces need and want to welcome people back. What better way to do this than by...
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A silver lining for retail spaces in the cloud of Coronavirus / Thomas Mark Opinion
The coronavirus pandemic is having a debilitating effect on the brick-and-mortar retail sector, but it also offers shopping centers, malls,...
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Together we stand, divided we fall
Thomas Mark talks about how an old fable about the importance of unity can help center landlords and tenants thrive in the face of the...
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How light can play a part in engaging locals and visitors alike in your city
This year’s CEMR (Congress of European Municipalities and Regions) congress will take place in Innsbruck, and the theme is “Local Action....
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Why a visit from Santa should be part of your shopping center’s Christmas experience this year
In many countries, a visit to Santa during the run-up to Christmas is a must for families with young children. A “live Santa” visit can...
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Creating atmosphere at Christmas markets yields measurable results
In 2019, we once again observed the power of Christmas markets to draw visitors, not only locals but out-of-towners, too. This reinforced the...
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How light art electrifies public spaces – over Christmas and throughout the year
Public spaces and public art go hand, but spending public money on light art, light sculptures and other types of public art can sometimes...
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Using light to control visitor flow at IFC mall Seoul
A few months ago, we spoke about how shopping centers can use a trail of light to control visitor flow AND create an interactive experience...
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Creating emotive experiences with light
Have you ever wondered why some memories can stay vivid for years while others fade with time? The answer is emotion. According to scientists...
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What’s the color of 2020?
2020 is not far off, so let’s look ahead and think about color and light for the year to come.You’d think that it would be a simple thing...
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Illuminated animals move into the Joburg Zoo for the Festival of Lights
On 1st December 2019, Joburg Zoo—in partnership with City Power, Joburg Theatre, City Parks and MK Illumination—will be launching a...
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How shopping centers can engage communities and win awards with light, design and creative thinking
If you read the news, it can sometimes seem as if we are living in troubling times. Different wants and needs, different perspectives and...
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Make fashion festive in the New Year
Ideas and inspiration to support fashion-driven shopping center and retail marketing campaignsIf you’re in retail, manage a shopping center...
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Make your home the talk of the town
As the winter season approaches, along with Christmas and New Year, we’re taking a look at some of the different types of buildings,...
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Telling a story with light in cities
Every city has a story to tell, and it tells its stories in myriad of different ways. The residents of the city have their own stories to...
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Light: the gift that keeps on giving for cities
There are many scientific studies that show just how important light is for humans. It boosts mood, allows us to see the world in full color,...
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Ideas to help you get your festive lighting sorted – at the last minute!
In a panic about festive lighting and want to jump straight to recommendations from our team? Click hereThe winter season is fast approaching...
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Don’t miss: Lumiere Vancouver’s brand new light sculpture
Vancouver, Canada is a year-round destination for visitors but in November, something rather special takes place: Lumiere Vancouver. This...
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Three ways to make your city sparkle this winter
Longer nights. Shorter days. Leaves turning gold and dropping from the trees. Yes, summer is over, autumn is underway and Christmas will be...
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How to choose the perfect Christmas tree for the festive season
Choosing the right Christmas tree for home is easy, but when it comes to making a statement, spreading festive cheer and filling a larger...
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Where theming and light collide (Part 2)
Last month we began to explore the benefits of theme parks staying open all year round, and we hinted at that light was the answer. If you...
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Making retail work for everyone
Next month, we’ll be attending the ICSC Retail Innovation Forum and the theme for 2019 is “Making Innovation Work for Everyone”.The...
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Where theming and light collide (Part 1)
If you’re in the theme park business, you’ll know only too well that it costs a great deal of money to run a successful and profitable...
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What cities and public spaces can learn from theme parks
Like theme parks, cities and public spaces actively run campaigns and organize events to attract both local visitors and travelers. Theme...
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The mixology series: create a successful marketing campaign by adding light to the mix
When it comes to marketing retail spaces and creating engaging campaigns for shopping centers, outlet centers, and malls, we all want to find...
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Spotlight on shopping centers: festive lighting in Finland, Germany, and the UK
This month, we’ll be taking a look at three different approaches to festive lighting in Finland, Germany, and the UK. Each of these centers...
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Instagrammable shopping centers: give your visitors a reason to share their experiences
If you want to raise the profile of your shopping center or retail space and attract more visitors as well as free brand exposure, there is...
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Light Art, Light Furniture and Safety in Cities
You love the idea of filling your city with public light art that is completely accessible to visitors. You want people of all ages to be...
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The power of placemaking with light
It’s undeniable that online retailers have been game-changers in offering convenience and speed. As a result, today’s shoppers have...
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Festive lighting yields results for restaurants
If you own a restaurant, bar or guesthouse, a busy holiday season is a gift. An endless stream of visitors who actively want to have a good...
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Leisure and light: how to make a statement in your hotel with festive lighting
As we move towards the half-way point of 2019, hotels and other businesses in the leisure and tourism sector will inevitably start turning...
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Christmas is 7 months away. Now is the time to start planning your festive lighting.
Yes, we know – the current trend is to “live in the present and let the future take care of itself”. Whilst that may be a wonderful...
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Celebrating light: International Day of Light 2019
We’re celebrating the International Day of Light for the 4th time since 2015. In 2015, UNESCO brought together hundreds of national and...
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How light art transforms cities and public spaces
Light Art: what is it? In short, it’s a form of art in which light is the main medium of expression – the “star” of the show, so to...
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Festive lighting at Schultheiss Quartier helps people “rediscover Moabit””
Berlin’s newest shopping center, the Schultheiss Quartier, wanted their first Christmas of trading to give shoppers a warm welcome and many...
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Case Study: Seven Years of Festive Flair at Mahon Point
Mahon Point Shopping Center in Cork, Ireland has been working with MK Illumination Ireland since 2008 to fill its space with light,...
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Art imitates life: nature-inspired LEDs
Over the festive season in 2018/2019, our team in China helped Ruihong Tiandi create a series of nature-inspired lighting installations that...
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Water, water, everywhere… gleaming in pools of light!
Water attracts people because humans love and need water. It’s not just us saying this: it turns out that there are scientific reasons that...
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Case Study: A year of love in Sweden’s Väla Centrum
Väla Centrum (Väla) is an award-winning shopping center based on the outskirts of Helsingborg in Sweden. It’s a popular attraction for...
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Forests of Light: Tree-inspiration
Today is the International Day of Forests, and although we don’t do much in the way of lighting up forests (which of course have their own...
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How to create a summer attraction using festive lighting that looks great day and night
Summer is on its way but that doesn’t mean that it’s time to turn off the lights. The right lighting creates a magical atmosphere and...
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Lighting up the night for Ramadan
From sunrise to sunset, millions of Muslims around the world fast for the holy month of Ramadan. As soon as the sun sets, however, cities and...
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Case Study: Harnessing the power of light at Westfield London
2018 was a landmark year for Westfield London. After embarking on a £600 million retail expansion that launched in March 2018, the center...
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Spring is in the air. It’s time to create an experience…
Officially, spring doesn’t start until March 20th this year in the Northern Hemisphere, but here in Innsbruck, the air has a particular...
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Keeping Seefeld bright for the 2019 FIS Nordic Ski Championships
It’s not every year that a town gets to host an event like the FIS Nordic Ski Championships, but the Austrian town of Seefeld has played...
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Helping Westgate Shopping City, the largest shopping center in continental Europe, drive footfall over the festive season
Westgate Shopping City (Westgate) is based in Zagreb, Croatia, and it is the largest shopping center in continental Europe, poised to become...
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World-class production facility in the Philippines: an interview with René Hansen
Today we talked to René Hansen, the managing director of MK Themed Attractions, to learn more about our new production facility in the...
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Exploring MK Illumination’s Enchanted Forest at Christmasworld
Today, we’ll be focusing on the Enchanted Forest, a hidden world of fantastic beasts, soaring birds, magical places to rest, and curious...
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Join us on a tour of MK Illumination’s extraordinary festive lighting designs at Christmasworld 2019
We’ll be discussing each of our designs in depth over the next couple of days, so here’s a visual tour to whet your appetite.We start in...
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The great reveal: welcome to The Enchanted Forest
After weeks of teasing you, we’re finally at Christmasworld and for those of you who aren’t able to join us this week, we thought we give...
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Using light and decoration to celebrate Lunar and Chinese New Year
Next week on January 28th, millions of people around the world will start preparation for the Chinese New Year, which in 2019 officially...
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MK Illumination at Christmasworld in years gone by
This year, we’re bringing an extraordinary display to Christmasworld 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, but if you’re not familiar with our...
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Turn Valentine’s Day into a sparkling, love-filled attraction this year with light
It is said that during the reign of Roman Emperor Claudius II it was illegal for young men to marry their beloveds because the Emperor was...
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Join us at Christmasworld 2019 as we unveil EXTRAORDINARY lighting concepts and inspirational ideas to help you attract and retain visitors like never before
The excitement of the run-up to Christmas is behind us. Over the season, we installed festive lighting and decorative concepts in thousands...
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Wild about lights this Christmas
Are you wild about festive lighting? If the answer is yes, then you’ll want to visit ZSL London Zoo and Copenhagen Zoo this season. Both...
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Stuttgart’s Shining Festive Fundraiser
Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz will be aglow with 3D light sculptures from 28 November to 29 December 2018, each of which represent one of eight...
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Eastwood City’s Enchanted Forest of Lights
Earlier this month, Manila’s Eastwood City unveiled it’s 2018 holiday lighting and décor to the delight of excited visitors. This...
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Yuletide festivities at City of Dreams Manila
City of Dreams Manila is a luxury integrated resort, hotel and casino in the Philippines. In order to transform their space for the festive...
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Denmark’s largest 3D light sculpture stag puts a smile on people’s faces in Ringsted
Over the festive season, some people decorate their houses and gardens with strings of lights and light sculptures. Others, like MK...
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London’s Westfield Shopping Center gets its “sparkle on” for Christmas
Every year, Westfield Shopping Center in West London puts on its Christmas sparkle and “wows” visitors with a dazzling display of lights....
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Essener Lichtwochen
When the days shorten and the nights lengthen, it’s time for Essen’s city center to shine! From November until January 6th 2019, you can...
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Innsbruck’s “Kaufhaus Tyrol” full of festive flair for the holidays
If you’re in Innsbruck over the holidays – and you might want to be in order to take in the stunning views, atmospheric Christmas markets...
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Experience Stuttgart’s extraordinary festive light show this winter
This year, we’re helping the Germany city of Stuttgart create a lighting spectacle in Schlossplatz that’s sure to take your breath away...
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Festive lighting that continues to deliver well into the new year
When we talk about “festive lighting”, most people tend to think that we’re talking purely about Christmas lighting. Sure, Christmas...
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Essen Light Festival: A Prelude to Essen’s Weeks of Light
We all know that filling a city with festive light turns a public space into a visitor magnet and few know this better than the City of...
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Westfield’s Winter Transformation is Underway
Earlier this year, MK Illumination won the tender to transform White City’s “Westfield London” into a magical place over the festive...
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Haldenzauber: a magical, light-filled experience in Hückelhoven for all ages
This month’s city inspiration is Hückelhoven’s “Haldenzauber”, which will transform a popular summer walking space known as...
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Retail Real Estate Inspiration in Canada
The holiday season is vital to shopping centers, malls and retail spaces worldwide, so it’s essential to get your Christmas lighting and...
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Hygge in Denmark’s Tivoli Friheden
Tivoli Friheden (Tivoli Gardens) is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Aarhus, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the...
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Kiev Confectionery Factory Roshen
Transforming an industrial complex into a festive attraction over the Christmas seasonChristmas is a time when every space and building...
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Grottos in shopping centers
Incorporate a Christmas grotto into your shopping center’s festive lighting and decorative display this year to excite, delight, and...
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Flagship Store Salvatore Ferragamo
A special brand experienceFestive lighting isn’t simply a nice-to-have. For many businesses, festive lighting is a way of communicating...
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A magical Christmas experience at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
This is part of our series of “festive season inspiration”. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how a magnificent 17th century French...
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A vibrant, one-of-a-kind festive display for Galerias Tlaxcala
This is part of our series of “festive season inspiration”. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how a local shopping center in Mexico used...
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A Christmas fairy tale in Uherské Hradiště
This is part of our series of “festive season inspiration”. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how an old city in the Czech Republic used...
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Scaling down: Christmas lighting doesn’t have to be big to be spectacular
Christmas and holiday lighting is a big draw for shopping centers, public places, cities and any retail space, amusement park or leisure...
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Weihnachten im Juli?!
Wenn Sie in der nördlichen Hemisphäre zu Hause sind, haben sie wahrscheinlich gerade den Sommerbeginn gefeiert. Sie genießen hoffentlich...
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Summer nights at Jeju Art Park in South Korea
Have you ever wondered how lighting can be used effectively in the warm, summer months to create unique experiences that attract...
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Festive lighting and decoration that tells an interactive story in Dublin
Every space has a story to tell and here at MK Illumination, we combine local insights, global experience, festive light and decoration...
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A Delightful Fright: Attract Visitors with your Halloween Celebration
Halloween – also known as Hallowe’en (short for All Hallows’ Evening), Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve – falls...
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How lighting up a local inn with Christmas lights increased revenue by 20%
Henrik Petersen, the owner of Rådhuskroen in Ringsted, had long believed in the benefits of decorating his inn with festive lighting over...
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It’s time to start planning your festive lighting. Here are some ideas to get you started.
The school holidays are only weeks away, and by the time they’re over, the holiday season will be just around the corner. This is a...
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Lighting up our lives: why light is so important to humans
It’s easy to take light for granted. After all, it surrounds us. Today we’ll explore why light is important to us, and how shopping...
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Turning shopping centers into destinations using experience lighting
A shopping center (or mall, in the USA) is defined by Wikipedia as a place in which: “one or more buildings form a complex of shops...
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Celebrating the 68th anniversary of Tuffi-the-elephant’s leap from Wuppertal’s Suspension Railway
Remember Tuffi, the elephant who leapt from the Wuppertal Suspension Railway?Wuppertal, Germany, boasts not only the world’s oldest...
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Year-round lighting turns visits to shopping centers into experiences
In 2013, MK Illumination South Africa was commissioned to create and install an illuminated Eco Tree made for Cradlestone Mall. The tree,...
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Five good reasons to decorate corporate lobbies over the festive season
Last month, we wrote about corporate lobby decoration and lighting, and the value of decorating your lobby for the festive season. We...
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Custom-designed experience lighting that “speaks” to visitors
Nelson Mandela once famously said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his...
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Festive lighting and decoration in corporate lobbies
Festive lighting and decoration in corporate lobbiesCorporate “what” decoration? Lobby. For those unfamiliar with the term, a “lobby”...
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Zürich’s Interactive Chandelier Nominated for Xaver Best Consumer /POS Events Award
Whether you arrive at Zürich’s impressive main railway station on foot, by bus or by train, the extraordinary site of a 17m chandelier is...
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Latvia’s largest Christmas tree now interactive, too
Over the Christmas period, we’re involved in hundreds of projects across the globe and now that summer is coming, we finally have a chance...
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A celebration of romantic love
“Be my valentine” is a commonly heard phrase as the February 14th comes around, but did you know that it has a confusion of origins?A...
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Kaufhaus “Tyrol” Interior Passages All decked out in new Christmas lighting
One year after Kaufhaus Tyrol’s attractive architecture in the heart of Innsbruck took center stage with its fantastic festive lighting...
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