Riverchase Galleria

Riverchase Galleria is Alabama’s largest shopping center, with a large and somewhat eccentric floor plan that created a challenge for the renovation: how to give the common areas a more cohesive identity while also helping customers visually move through the mall. ADC developed a new interior finish program for approximately 196,297 SF of common areas, using tile, paint, and carefully designed transitions to connect the mall’s different wings and anchor stores.

The flooring became one of the primary design tools. ADC developed a palette of 12 different tiles from American Import Tiles, combining polished and unpolished finishes to create subtle changes in texture, reflection, and light. On the lower level, predominantly matte tile is punctuated with polished pieces; on the upper level, the relationship is reversed, with matte tiles introduced through the polished field. Those contrasting tiles create a subtle rhythm that catches the eye and helps draw visitors forward through the long mall corridors rather than allowing the flooring to read as one continuous, static surface. The design also uses gradient tile patterns at major anchor entrances to create visual transitions between the mall and its larger tenants.

At center court, ADC used a woven tile accent band to distinguish the food court seating area from the primary pedestrian circulation while maintaining continuity with the larger flooring concept. Rather than relying on signage alone, pattern, finish, and material changes help organize the mall and reinforce important destinations.

The flooring design received the 2018 Coverings Installation & Design Award for Commercial Tile Design, recognizing ADC’s creative use of tile to address circulation, transitions, and visual continuity within the existing shopping center.