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he Bao’an Cultural District sits at the heart of the newly-developed coastal area of Bao’an, a district within Shenzhen province in south east China. The 110,000 m2 complex was designed carefully to support three separate functions: a library, completed in 2013; the ‘Youth Palace’ (an arts and culture centre), completed in 2018; and finally the performing arts centre itself, opened in 2021.


Hong Kong-based Rocco Design Architects (RDA) worked on the site masterplan within which the three buildings were aligned along a central axis running from the city to the Zhujang River


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estuary – respectively the library, Youth Palace, and performing arts centre, the latter nearest the coastline. “The performing arts centre sits at a strategic location in Bao’an, serving as an anchoring piece of the cultural axis,” says Rocco Yim, principal at RDA. “It serves as a vital part of the cultural spine holding the urban fabric and community together,” he told ADF. RDA won an international competition back in 2007 to design the masterplan for the whole complex. Their overall vision was for it to “mediate between the coastal landscape and the more densely developed commercial areas further inland.”


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The performance venue’s fly tower (left of pic) has been used as a focal point for the large scheme Photography © Zhang Chao Studio


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