Taikoo Li
Open-air, lane-driven shopping district of low tiled-roof buildings wrapped around a working sixteen-hundred-year-old temple.
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This guide to Taikoo Li in Chengdu traces how Swire Properties and Sino Ocean Group opened this shopping district in April 2015 by throwing out the standard mall layout for a lane-driven design of low, tiled-roof buildings with no straight sightlines. You'll hear why the architects wanted shoppers turning corners without knowing what comes next, and how the district was split into a fast-paced retail lane and a slower lane folded around the centuries-old Daci Temple grounds. Stand where the grey temple tiles reflect in a storefront window to feel both halves at once.
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