皇庭广场

This guide to Huangting Plaza in Shenzhen's financial district opens with a literal idea: a six-floor crystal gift box designed by Benoy, with a rooftop garden opening like a lid to the sky. It traces the mall's glossy 2013 debut through the three-billion-yuan loan its owner took out just three years later, pledging the building itself as collateral against more than half of the parent company's entire income. Look up through the dome as you walk in — it still catches the light.