New Zealand pop-up container
mall accused of copying

Dezeen Wire: a pop-up shopping mall in earthquake-hit Christchurch, New Zealand, made from renovated shipping containers is being threatened with legal action by a British developer for copyright infringement – Stuff.co.nz

The owners of Boxpark, a development in London that will be open over the Christmas period and claims to be “the world’s 1st pop-up mall,” have accused Christchurch’s City Mall of copying their container pop-up format but City Mall have responded by saying that the ideas do not look alike and that their project, which reopened on Saturday, was completed first.

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