Dream Mall

Dream Mall

Location	Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Opening date	May 12, 2007
Developer	Tungcheng Development
Management	Tungcheng Development
Owner	Tungcheng Development
No. of stores and services	2,300
Total retail floor area	400,001 m²
Parking	3,561 cars
No. of floors	11
Website	Official website

Dream Mall (Chinese: 夢時代購物中心), located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the largest shopping mall in Taiwan and the largest in East Asia. It is built and operated by Tungcheng Development Corporation (Chinese: 統正開發股份有限公司), a subsidiary of Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, Taiwan's largest food conglomerate that also runs subsidiaries in many other industries.^[1] It was designed by international architecture firm RTKL, based in Baltimore, Maryland and opened on May 12, 2007, and contains restaurants, movie theater, gym, and entertainment facilities including a rooftop amusement park.^[2] It is possible that the future Kaohsiung MRT network would have a station at or near the mall.

Ferris wheel

The rooftop amusement park at Dream Mall is the home of the Kaohsiung Eye (Chinese: 高雄之眼) Ferris wheel. The wheel has a diameter of 50 metres (160 ft)^[3]. Building and wheel have a combined height of 102 metres (335 ft).^{[citation needed]}

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  Entrance to Dream Mall

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  Interior courtyard of Dream Mall

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  Escalators in Dream Mall

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  Escalator in Dream Mall

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  Amusement Park on the roof of Dream Mall

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  Kids in inflatable floating balls on the roof of Dream Mall

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  Bungee trampolinists in front of the Kaohsiung Eye

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  Kaohsiung Eye

See also

• List of largest buildings in the world

References

1. ^ Dream Mall Introduction
2. ^ New mall will be nation's biggest Taipei Times, Dec 03, 2004
3. ^ 前鎮、小港-觀光遊憩景點多

Coordinates: 22°35′42″N 120°18′25″E / 22.595°N 120.30694°E / 22.595; 120.30694