CHONGQING TIANDI;
Chongqing China

Chongqing Tiandi integrates contemporary hillside Sichuan Architecture into a terraced 'hanging garden' destination for dining, entertainment and leisure. Courtyards with colorful dining umbrellas shaded by fig trees are cooled by cascading water gardens of bamboo and moss-covered water walls of stone.

The 2.8 million sqm urban Tiandi complex rises 30 meters from the banks of the Yangtze Tributary in the largest of China’s 'Three Furnace Cities'. The use of radiant cooling systems, green roofs, rainwater collection & recycling, and water source heat pump systems are part of an integrated sustainable approach to the LEED-CS Gold award winning design.

FOSHAN LINGNAN TIANDI;
Foshan Guandong China

Lingnan Tiandi, a renovated old town sector of ancient Donghuali in Foshan is hometown to ceramic art, authentic Cantonese food and martial arts. Renowned as one of China’s leading centers of art and scholarship Foshan is the third largest city of Guangdong Province.

Adjacent to the 900-year-old Song Dynasty Foshan Zumiao Temple, Foshan Lingnan Tiandi has become a captivated atmosphere for entertainment, work, shopping and dining with indigenous tropical flora, playful water features and tree-sheltered lanes and plazas. A $300 million commercial achievement of urbanization, Lingnan Tiandi demonstrates what modern metropolitan China can be; pedestrian streets full of quirks and life defined by aesthetics of our time and place.

HONGQIAO TIANDI HUB;
Shanghai China

Hongqiao Tiandi HUB incorporates part of Shanghai’s main transportation nucleus into a terraced 'cascading garden' destination for dining, entertainment and leisure. Stone textured water walls and an outdoor amphitheater define a central plaza shaded by seasonal Sapium trees in the heart of the developments 250,000 sqm complex.

Located at the core of the Hongqiao commercial district of Shanghai, a shopping mall, 5-star hotel, performance art center and office HUB is the only commercial complex directly connected to Shanghai’s main transportation center. This includes Hongqiao International Airport, Hongqiao Railway Station; the largest in Asia and the city’s sprawling Metro, all linking Shanghai and Southeast China with an average daily flow of 1.4 million passengers.

WUHAN TIANDI;
Wuhan China HUBEI

The depth and character found in Wuhan Tiandi began with the preservation of 100 existing trees, some of which are 150 years old. Stone textured lanes and courtyards crafted around the old trees were organized into a car-free boulevard of street food dining and shopping celebrating Wuhan’s well known tree lined street culture.

Wuhan, one of the three furnaces cities of China, can be extraordinarily warm and humid with subtropical temperatures reaching 40C and monthly rainfall peaking at 200mm. Committed to encouraging life of the street, spot radiant cooling systems create hospitable micro-climates for all seasons contributing to a pleasant urban landscape experience. This encourages life and vitality to China’s tenth largest city; a political, cultural, and economic hub of Central China.

XIHU TIANDI;
Hangzhou China

Located on the banks of the celebrated UNESCO World Heritage West Lake, Hangzhou Xihu Tiandi continues the tradition of ‘sense of place’ that has been part of the cultural significance of Hangzhou since time immemorial. During the 13th century Marco Polo described Hangzhou as “it is without a doubt the finest and most splendid city in the world”

Courtyards with stone carved water features shaded by Camphor and Osmanthus trees flow seamlessly through transparent cafes. Designed to take full advantage of lakeside garden views, transparent glass verandahs brings the mountains reflected by water into full view during all seasons even when the large glass doors are closed for winter.

DISHUI LAKE LINEAR PARK:
Shanghai, China

With a diameter of 2.5 km and a water body of 4.9 km2, Dishui Lake is the largest man-made freshwater lake in China and the centrepiece of Shanghai’s urban plan for Lingang Port City. The original 80m wide green-belt and extensive four-lane road around the lake separated the Port City’s commercial edge from the water and lacked a destination for those who would travel the one-hour journey from central Shanghai.

As an answer to this challenge, both the 8.2 km green belt and road were converted into a linear sports park and tree lined grandiose avenue linking the city and water edge together as one. International events include marathons, triathlons, bicycle racing, and charity runs were designed in unison with a network of nature trails, grand lawns, undulating hills, themed botanical gardens and wetlands.

DONGHU PARK Huahai Road:
Shanghai, China

As part of Shanghai's "Better City Better Life’ 2010 World Expo strategy, the grounds fronting the former historic home of the city's famous pre-revolution gangster 'Pockmark Tu', now known as Donghu Hotel, host a new 4,400 sqm neighborhood park.

A 'Wisteria marquee' symbolizing a threshold into Shanghai's celebrated former French Concession continues through the park as a wisteria journey guided by a sinuous wooden trellis. Occasionally the frame of the trellis drops down to the floor to become a long bench and links the north and south park entrances of Huahai Road with the intersection of Donghu Road. Red clay-brick paving hint of a bygone 1920's Shanghai’s former French Concession charm.

JIADING SHIGANGMENTANG WETLAND PARK:
Shanghai, China

Jiading Shigangmentang Wetland Park is designed to encourage ecological awareness within the Yangtze River Delta area of Shanghai; home to the world’s largest concentration of adjacent metropolitan areas and home to over a 140 million people.

Concrete edged inland waterways in what was once a site of heavy industry are converted into natural stream and tributary networks that wind their way through 27 hectares of newly created wetlands/ grasslands/ meadows and woodland environments. Jogging paths, nature trails, grand lawns, themed gardens, floating bridges and a skateboard circuit link the park with the racing circuit of the Shanghai International Formula One and help reestablish a water heritage found originally in the Yangtze Delta Shanghai metropolis.

THE MAYOR'S GARDEN OF THE 8TH CHINA INTERNATIONAL GARDEN EXPO:
Chongqing, China

With ‘Ecology and the built environment’ as a reoccurring emphasis, the China International Garden Expo of 2011 opened in Chongqing as a permanent park showcasing 134 various themed gardens.

The Mayor's Garden, equally divided by an undulating corten-steel wall symbolizes ecological disconnection found in today’s growing modern city. At day the wall's semi-transparent patterns allow views of a native indigenous bamboo forest beyond. By night the wall's perforation becomes luminous with its bamboo patterned pixels hinting of the native bamboo environment beyond but also a reminder of the city’s beautiful radiance seen at night.

Regular openings found in the wall help induce a sense of discovery and suggest a need for exploration and innovation found in both environments.

LINGNAN PARK:
Foshan, China

Lingnan Park links the grounds between Foshan Lingnan Tiandi, the newly renovated ancient quarters of Donghuali Old Town and Foshan Zumiao Temple, the 900-year-old Song Dynasty Ancestral Temple. Foshan, the third largest city in Guangdong Province is renowned as one of China’s leading centers of art and scholarship and hometown of Cantonese opera, ceramic art, martial arts and authentic Cantonese food.

Terracotta tiled water walls inspired by Lingnan's textured rooftops and an interactive mosaic dry fountain of koi motivated by local ceramic art help create an interplay between the natural and man-made environments found within Lingnan's rich culture.

ALFRED DUNHILL FLAGSHIP STORE:
Shanghai, China

Alfred Dunhill, the legendary outfitters for motorists was established in nineteenth century London. After one hundred years, Dunhill opened four international homes in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai's former French Concession. Sheltered from Huahai Road’s congestion, the 1920's 'Twin Villa' has witnessed the prosperity of old Shanghai and the turbulent evolution of a new and even more prosperous Shanghai of today.

Satisfying a design requirement for an 'English Garden' an event lawn with two flanking 'Ying and Yang' ‘Sun’ garden to the West and 'Moon' garden to the East combine European theories of symmetry with the asymmetrical but balanced compositions found in gardens of China. These outdoor rooms allow opportunity for open-air events including fashion shows, weddings and gastronomy events.

The historical property on Huaihai Road (Twin Villa 796) won the Award of Merit in the 2009 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation

QINGPU NANJING PARK:
Shanghai, China

Designed primarily as an exploration garden for children, Qingpu's Nanjing Park demonstrates theoretical ideas of ‘three natures’; unaltered native landscapes, utilitarian landscapes and aesthetic landscapes. Serpentine trails and low natural stone walls shape the land into hills and valleys and weave the 'three natures' into viewing corridors flanked with native wild flowers and grasses including a vast dandelion meadow (Taraxacum erythrospermum).

Most of the old canal wall remains. Yet the design allows segments of the wall to become ‘broken’ permitting seasonal floods to permeate into specific rain gardens formed by topography to control flooding. In return, the rain gardens support ecosystems of native riparian florae with water cleansing ‘phytoremediation’ characteristics that has become rich with native wildlife.

TIANJIN GOLDIN METROPOLITAN POLO CLUB:
Tianjin, China

The Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club is set amidst an 89 hectare private estate of rolling lawns, manicured gardens with sparkling fountains and a large botanical park all within easy reach of Beijing. Here, at China’s largest and most prestigious polo club, the new nobility gathers as the thunder of hooves and the crisp crack of mallets create a heady outdoor sporting social atmosphere for 16 annual international tournaments. Bursting with seasonal colours, the polo fields complement the grandeur of club with natural gardens of ornamental grasses and grand Plantanus Trees.

WARNING: It is worthy to note that Goldin Property Holdings owned by Pan Sutong do not pay their design consultants- consultants be warned.

SHANGHAI LUJIAZUI PERFORMANCE PARK:
Shanghai, China

As part of a 45 km greenbelt along the banks of the Huangpu river and a history of marine industry dating back to 1862, a former 'Shanghai Shipyard' centrally located on the Pudong side of the Huangpu River is converted into a 1km linear riverfront 'Performance Park'. Marsh & meadows, undulating lawns with amphitheatres and a network of bike paths and walks are terraced up from the river's edge as part of a solution to contain seasonal flooding.

As a dialogue both with Lujiazui's industrial past and its financial future, an interactive reflection pond with a 50m long cross-section inset ship located at the base of a former 'ship-cradle ramp' offer the Exhibition Centre and International Music Hall an annexe of outdoor events. Amphitheatres around the plaza terraced in part to accommodate seasonal floods support outdoor cultural festivities and programs including film, fashion and concerts.