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New Century Global Center is an enormous mixed-use building in southern Chengdu whose continuous roof encloses shopping, offices, hotels, entertainment and an indoor water park. The vast curved façade and wave-like interior create the impression of a self-contained city protected beneath one climate-controlled shell. Artificial beaches, pools, screens and themed spaces turn leisure architecture into an environment detached from the weather outside. The building became a symbol of the scale and ambition associated with Chengdu’s rapid southward expansion around the Tianfu New Area. Its significance is not historical but urban and architectural: it demonstrates how retail, tourism and business functions can be concentrated within a single megastructure. The contrast between monumental exterior, indoor coastal fantasy and surrounding modern boulevards captures a distinctive phase of twenty-first-century Chinese development.
Chai Men Hui is a Michelin-starred establishment that specializes in 'Guanfu' (official) style Sichuan cuisine, which is historically the food of the elite
SKP Chengdu is a groundbreaking 'sunken' luxury department store, where almost the entire retail space is located underground, topped by a lush public park at ground level
Xiaojungan is a legendary name in Chengdu’s 'Chuan Chuan' (skewered food) scene, representing the soul of street-style hot pot
Named after its original location near the 'Imperial City' (Huang Cheng), this is one of Chengdu’s most prestigious hot pot brands
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