深圳海上世界文化艺术中心

Sea World Culture and Arts Center (SWCAC) stands at 1187 Wanghai Road in Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, in the Sea World district on the Shekou waterfront, with Nanshan behind it and Shenzhen Bay in front. Invested in and built by China Merchants Shekou and operated by Design Society, it opened in December 2017. The building was designed by Pritzker laureate Fumihiko Maki and Maki and Associates — the practice's first completed project in mainland China — and has a total floor area of about 73,918 square metres on a site of some 26,162 square metres. Its form sets a three-storey podium beneath three aluminium-clad pavilions facing mountain, sea and city respectively, with white stone facades and restrained geometric volumes characteristic of Maki. Inside are the Design Society main gallery (five galleries, the largest a 9.5-metre-high skylit hall), the V&A Gallery (a partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum), the Park View Gallery, the 304-seat Mountain View Theater on the third and fourth floors (a stepped, wood-lined chamber-music hall with about 350 square metres of rentable front- and back-of-house space), plus a multi-function hall, design shop and waterfront dining. Roof gardens and third-floor terraces open onto the sea, and the forecourt regularly hosts markets and public events. Programming centres on design and connects art, design, technology and industry through exhibitions, forums, performances and education. Metro Line 2 to Sea World station is within walking distance, and Shekou Cruise Home Port, with ferries to Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, is about five minutes away by car.