Sea World Culture and Arts Center

SWCAC opened in 2017 as a joint venture with London's Victoria and Albert Museum: a V&A gallery of design and craft, a theater, and a museum of Shenzhen's reform years, all wrapped in Fumihiko Maki's sculptural concrete terraces - the Pritzker winner's first building in China.

The building is free to wander; exhibitions are ticketed. It sits in the Sea World waterfront, where Shenzhen's expat crowd gathers around the old Minghua liner - see an exhibition, then stay for dinner and drinks along the water.