Global Center
Vast indoor complex with a genuine sand beach lit by a giant screen that stages sunrise and sunset on command.
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This guide to Global Center in Chengdu asks how a building a thousand kilometers from the ocean stages a sunrise and sunset on command, inside a hall roofed like a seagull's flight path. It follows the 2010 groundbreaking and the architects who finished it by mid-2013, then walks you toward the real showpiece: a genuine sand beach with real waves, backed by a massive screen that swaps a painted sky between blue, sunrise, and sunset. Just past the beach stands a second illusion, a fully indoor Mediterranean village of restaurants and shops that have never seen a coastline. Stand between the false shoreline and the false town to see how far the performance goes.
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