This Impossibly Big Chinese Shopping Mall Is A Key To The Future

DENG HONG’S AMBITION, according to a Chinese newspaper, was to build a city inside a single building; a "temperature-controlled paradise". Last September his dream edifice, the New Century Global Centre, formally opened in the south-western city of Chengdu. China’s official media call it the world’s largest building. Its centerpiece is a shopping mall of such arresting dimensions that many visitors pause on arrival to take souvenir photographs. It boasts a 300-meter indoor beach, a skating...