OMA, David Chipperfield, and Sou Fujimoto team up to design $1.4 billion cultural-retail complex in Shenzhen

2022-07-22T17:38:00-04:00

A team consisting of David Chipperfield, OMA, and Sou Fujimoto is leading the design of an expansive, $1.4 billion cultural-retail complex on the coast of Shenzhen.

Called K11 ECOAST, the development will span more than 2.4 million square feet and be located in Prince Bay in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District. The project is being jointly developed by Hong Kong billionaire Adrian Cheng’s New World Development Company Limited, along with China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen.

Image courtesy K11 Group

The project is part of the Chinese government’s effort to develop its Greater Bay Area region, which includes southern cities, such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou, into arts and business hubs by 2035. Cheng’s vision for K11 ECOAST is to establish a new creative and cultural destination for the region. The complex will consist of a mall, multi-purpose art space, office buildings, and a promenade. The complex’s design places an emphasis on balancing the architecture with the surrounding coastal...

Meet Adrian Cheng, the Hong Kong property heir funding non-commercial architecture in China

2017-12-18T14:04:00-05:00

In Hong Kong, New World Development heir Adrian Cheng Chi-kong recently founded the non-profit organisation Culture For Tomorrow to give up-and-coming architects funding and support to realise their more experimental ideas. “I get to meet and work with a lot of designers and architects thanks to my line of work, many of them young, aspiring and very driven,” Cheng says. “But increasingly we’re noticing that a lot of great concepts by young architects often go untested.”

Culture for Tomorrow is a non-profit organization founded by the cultural entrepreneur Adrian Cheng. Heir of one of China's most influential business families, Cheng is the guy behind K11 Art Malls, which blend fashion retail and art together for a unique shopping experience, and C Ventures, an investment fund that targets millennial focused fashion brands and services.

Also an investor of the London-based Dazed Media and the digital video channel Nowness, Cheng is an extremely sought-after patron and promoter of global arts and culture in China. His newest venture, Culture for Tomorrow, spotlights design and architecture and encourages cross-culture conversation through public programs and is the 39-year-old's latest attempt at modernizing his family empire.

Their first initiative, Hot Is Cool, held from December 8-13, invited Finnish architect Ville Hara and Chinese architect Stanley Siu to design a sauna and pavilion, respectively. The idea is to explore the difference between ...

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OMA, David Chipperfield, and Sou Fujimoto team up to design $1.4 billion cultural-retail complex in Shenzhen

Meet Adrian Cheng, the Hong Kong property heir funding non-commercial architecture in China