广州K11购物艺术中心

Guangzhou K11 Art Mall occupies the podium of the 530-metre Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre at 6 Zhujiang East Road in Tianhe District. It opened on 31 March 2018 as the fourth K11 in mainland China after Hong Kong, Shanghai and Wuhan. The scheme totals about 70,000 sq m over ten retail levels, two below ground and eight above, each given its own theme, from food halls and city fashion to design, sport, children's play, Asian dining and fine dining. Art is built into the structure: about 800 sq m of gallery space on the lower and fourth floors shows the K11 collection and rotating exhibitions, and the Van Gogh's Ear installation at the west entrance has become a local landmark since opening. The interior borrows the aerial roots of the banyan tree as its organising motif, and the building won a bronze at the A'Design Awards. At opening it brought more than 20 national firsts, over 30 firsts for South China and more than 50 for Guangzhou; a 2024 repositioning made it the city's second luxury-led mall. Underground passages connect three metro lines, including Line 3 and Line 5 at Zhujiang New Town, and Huacheng Square, the Guangzhou Library and the Guangdong Museum are all within walking distance in the CBD.