SKP Chengdu is a first for luxury retail master planning and constitutes a new blueprint for subterranean mixed-use retail and lifestyle in a new era for sustainable retail developments in China.

It sits within a Green Belt site covering 700m x 370m in Chengdu. Demonstrating a three-dimensional transportation, green ecology, high-end commerce, this is a low-carbon city development. Stretching 260,000m2, 99% of buildings below ground, excavating 30m.

A TOD (Transit Oriented Development) divided into four major areas: SKP, SKP-S - 5 floors of retail spaces spanning 12m below ground, and K Avenue & G Avenue - luxury cuisine and fashion avenues, each 250m long; below this, 3 parking lots with 2,400+ parking spaces. Multiple subway lines cross underneath.

The project consumes energy based on scientific calculation achieving energy saving, environmental protection, pollution and emission reduction and low carbon production methods. Comprising half a million square metres of retail with well over 1,300 first tier global brands and hospitality.

At SKP Chengdu, SKP Park, SKP and SKP-S department stores are interconnected: an ingenious combination of urban park and underground retail buildings. A parallel world is the underpinning concept throughout with parallel experiences happening in tandem on all levels. Shaped as a place of familiarity, possibility, instinct, and optimism. It is in tune with the sentiments of our day, and where destiny is calling us. Metaphorically, a story of the journey of humanity, possibilities, endless curiosity - it captures humankind’s instinctive desire to explore.

A sustainable park was created as a gift for the citizens of Chengdu with a sponge city concept that is green with carbon emission reduction. Sponge City Construction is a new urban construction model for flood management, strengthening ecological infrastructure and drainage in collaboration with Field Operations.

The parallel connection of park and corresponding plunging architecture emerges as quarried into the landscape akin to a canyon as one descends. A sunken world of retail, hospitality, technology, experience and art are constantly in motion, evolving and changing, and yet underpinned by a common narrative – a celebration of diversity living under one ‘botanical roof’.

SKP-S is a next generation innovative shopping experience, here we see the SKP-S Chengdu, a new episode of SKP-S, where Parallel World come into itself with the Floating Populus – a ‘Desert Warrior’ representing the strongest life power, the ‘Gorilla Spacewalk’ representing the fusion of time and space and breaking through the time barrier. From above, ‘The Supernova’, inspired by stars and planets, light and gravitational waves rotates to connect time and space.

The sunken luxury department stores and hospitality avenues were designed as a brand-new model for mixed use retail to break new ground and stand as a diversified shopping destination for fashion and future trends globally.