Can luxury be quality and quantity? A 20-storey shopping centre in China says it can

How do you maintain a sense of luxury while expanding in mass? London-based architecture and design studio Sybarite seems to have found the answer in Shaanxi: at the SKP Xi'an, a 20-storey mall, more than a thousand retailers and numerous public s
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