COCO Park
Open-air experiential mall with winding inner streets, skylights, and a bar street at its heart.
This guide to COCO Park traces the audacious bet behind Shenzhen's take on Hong Kong's legendary Lan Kwai Fong nightlife quarter, a comparison the South China Morning Post made when this place opened in autumn 2006. It follows what the name COCO actually stands for, the vision of Hong Kong designer Alan Chan, and design choices considered radical for a mainland mall at the time: a sunken plaza, eight skylights, and twelve winding inner streets threaded through five levels instead of ordinary corridors. A quarter of the entire development was set aside for leisure rather than shops, unheard of among mainland malls in that era.
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