Architect Asks Self How Le Corbusier Would Have Designed This Strip Mall

TOPEKA, KS– Architect Curtis Winter, designer of the planned Fox Plaza strip mall in downtown Topeka, found himself wondering Monday how influential 20th-century Swiss architect Le Corbusier would have approached the retail center. “I could imagine Le Corbusier using more sculptural roof-lines on the Play It Again Sports,” Winter said. “And I could see the FuncoLand making a stronger impression from afar and evoking a modernized classicism if it were raised up on stilts.” Winter previously made headlines for a laundromat that echoed the abstract geometric designs of I.M.Pei.