Splash to K-pop music in this indoor ocean

The Paradise Island Waterpark at the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China. Photo: AFP

Claiming to be the world's largest building by floor space, the 1.76mil sq m of the New Century Global Center are a monument to growing Chinese consumer power, packed with shoppers – and beach bathers a thousand kilometres from the coast.

Home to hundreds of shops, restaurants, offices, a cinema and ice rink, the cavernous building in Chengdu, deep in south-western China, also hosts a water park featuring a pool modelled on the seaside.