K11 (, also known as K11 Art Mall) is a shopping mall, located on Huaihai Lu of the Xintiandi district, in the former

Luwan District Luwan District (; Shanghainese: lu1uae1 chiu1, pinyin: Lúwān Qū; formerly romanized as Lokawei) was a district located in central Shanghai, until its merger with Huangpu District in June 2011. It had an area of and population of 350,000 as ...

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. It is 278 m high and was designed by Bregman and Hamann Architects. The mall consists of six stories above ground, and three underground, with a total area of about 40,000 m². It overlooks the

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across the

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. Formerly called the Hong Kong New World Tower (), the building was reopened on May 28, 2013, as K11.

Background

In light of the burgeoning Chinese cultural art movement, K11 was designed as a union between retail and art. This retail art center in Shanghai was opened by the K11 Art Foundation, led by founder Hong Kong billionaire

Adrian Cheng Adrian Cheng Chi-kong ( zh, t=鄭志剛, born 2 November 1979) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and business executive son of property developer Henry Cheng and grandson of Cheng Yu-tung. He is the former CEO and executive vice-chairman of the fami ...

. The first K11 Art Mall was opened in

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in 2009, four years before the opening of K11 Shanghai. K11 Shanghai is part of an initiative to create a "K11 art ecosystem" across all of China's major cities, such as

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and

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. Cheng envisions K11 as a space for "art for the masses"; when asked about his vision for the K11 ecosystem, Cheng answered, “We want to create something that can propagate culture domestically and also internationally. We want to showcase the creativity of China."

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* * 2002 establishments in Shanghai Commercial buildings completed in 2002 Skyscrapers in Shanghai Huangpu District, Shanghai Retail buildings in China Skyscraper office buildings in Shanghai New World Development {{PRChina-struct-stub

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