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Garden Hong Kong

The theme of the Garden is City of Contrast, it represents Hong Kong in Beijing Horticultural Exposition 2019 with the juxtaposition of two contrasting conditions of the city: a hyper dense urban fabric and a serene agricultural environment. The design aims to explore the relationship between urban and garden, and the aesthetic value of edible plants. It invites visitors to re-imagine the notion and possibility of sustainable planting in hyper-dense environment and it deploys layers of urban fragments that resembles a cohesive form of impressionable memory of this compact city.

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Willow Shores

Through modern design language and cultural symbols of classical gardens, this case arranges and combines the natural elements of plants, rocks and waterscape, and interprets the artistic conception of ancient Suzhou with contemporary techniques and modern materials. In order to combine the site characteristics with the sense of returning home ceremony, the whole space structure is divided into five levels. Through the carding of all spaces, visitors can experience the different mood of shuttling between traditional and modern in every turn.

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Cloud Mansion

The designer has captured the most intuitive characteristics of clouds: lightness, cleanliness, a sense of floating, and permeability. The designer has compared the textures and colours of various materials, looking for commonalities between the artificial materials and the natural environment in the above characteristics, to create a site that is quiet and light in terms of spatial temperament. The designer has sacrificed a certain degree of commercial openness in exchange for the integrity and independence of the site's atmosphere.

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Vanke Hill City

Vanke Hill City is located in the foothills of Yinhu Mountain and has unique natural ecological resources. Built by Shenzhen Vanke, it is a low-density and livable community that integrates subway and road network transportation, three major parks, and Vanke brand property management. With deeply interprets the relationship between the city and the architecture, the landscape design of the region conceives the theme from the perspectives of ecology, etiquette, streamline and space, shaping the composite symbiosis landscape from a multi-dimensional perspectiive.

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Metropolitan Meadow

Situated at the heart of Tsuen Wan City centre, the Garden revitalized the urban elevated network, the city ground and the nearby mass transit railway station via a conscious oasis hub design. The Garden not just add an greenery resting node for the busy Hong Kong City lives, but also activates the local community via provision a range of amenities. The Central Cone feature diffuses light into the interior and passively encourage cross ventilation.

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Plot 140 POLY Guanggang

The project is a muti-functional public space with diverse landscape designed for high-density urban community with limited land resource. Based on the study of the urban compact space, designers put forward the concept of vertical garden, which perfectly integrating diverse spaces with community, and combining the surrounding industrial landscape resources to create a garden landscape space and residential activity space.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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