urban renewal - commercial
Shimao Festival City
Beyond Shopping Mall, Reconnecting Back to the City
K11 Art Mall
Reinvent the mall with a journey of imagination
location
Shanghai, China
size
35,500 sqm
date completed
2013
photographer
Charlie Xia
Located in the heart ofShanghai’s central shopping street, Huai Hai Lu, this innovative commercial project has re-vitalized the podiumlevels of the landmark New World Tower, an icon of the1990’scommercial renaissance of Shanghai.Kokaistudios oversaw both the architecture and theinterior design of 35,500 sqm of commercial space in anambitious intervention that deeply transformed thebuilding and its relations with the surroundings. This K11project, embodying its core brand values of “Art, Peopleand Nature” creates new scenarios to the city’scommercial heart.
Located in the heart ofShanghai’s central shopping street, Huai Hai Lu, this innovative commercial...
Access to the building and circulation within it have been radically reconfigured into a seamlessimaginative sequence of experiences and places, spiraling around the central outdoor courtyard, a “journey of imagination” where public spaces are interwoven with art display areas, hi-tech features softened and juxtaposed by living elements and natural materials.Natural light reaches the innermost parts of the mall during daytime through the glass floor ofbasement 2 atrium. At night, it’s the artificial light from below providing a diffuse glow to the floorsabove. This visual integration of all public areas put people at the center, triggering the interplay ofseeing and being seen.
Access to the building and circulation within it have been radically reconfigured into a seamlessimaginative...
The strong visual integration throughout the six floors of the mall is achieved through the opening of an underground double height atrium at the center of the courtyard, accessible from above through a 280 sqm free-form glass skylight. Its unique design required the use of special software for its engineering, geometric control and positioning, during construction, of its custom made mullions whose unique triangular shapes were designed for maximum transparency, with each node uniquely shaped and individually cast.
The strong visual integration throughout the six floors of the mall is achieved through the opening of...
Located in the heart ofShanghai’s central shopping street, Huai Hai Lu, this innovative commercial project has re-vitalized the podiumlevels of the landmark New World Tower, an icon of the1990’scommercial renaissance of Shanghai.Kokaistudios oversaw both the architecture and theinterior design of 35,500 sqm of commercial space in anambitious intervention that deeply transformed thebuilding and its relations with the surroundings. This K11project, embodying its core brand values of “Art, Peopleand Nature” creates new scenarios to the city’scommercial heart.
Access to the building and circulation within it have been radically reconfigured into a seamlessimaginative sequence of experiences and places, spiraling around the central outdoor courtyard, a “journey of imagination” where public spaces are interwoven with art display areas, hi-tech features softened and juxtaposed by living elements and natural materials.Natural light reaches the innermost parts of the mall during daytime through the glass floor ofbasement 2 atrium. At night, it’s the artificial light from below providing a diffuse glow to the floorsabove. This visual integration of all public areas put people at the center, triggering the interplay ofseeing and being seen.
The strong visual integration throughout the six floors of the mall is achieved through the opening of an underground double height atrium at the center of the courtyard, accessible from above through a 280 sqm free-form glass skylight. Its unique design required the use of special software for its engineering, geometric control and positioning, during construction, of its custom made mullions whose unique triangular shapes were designed for maximum transparency, with each node uniquely shaped and individually cast.
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