I wasn’t aware that the building opened end of 2016, it still looks incredibly new and foot traffic was still relatively light over the recent Shenzhen Design week.
Incredibly high ceilings make the exhibition space vast. Possibly the absence of columns also makes for an airy spacey feel one commonly associates with airports.
The taxi drivers call it the “funny looking building”, but it complements the community activities in the neighbourhood. There’s a mall and children’s play centre just next door.
The Austrian architecture firm Coop Himmelblau won the bid in 2007 for the 80,000sqf project working with lines and curves to add to Shenzhen’s Futian district skyline.
