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Cloud Mansion Landscape

Cloud Mansion

Cloud Mansion is a landscape design for a commercial site of 5,080 square meters in Lishui. The design captures the intuitive qualities of clouds: lightness, cleanliness, floating and transparency. Dislocated feature walls, hollowed feature walls and transparent blocks soften the sense of enclosure at the boundaries. Ultra-white glass, dark gray transparent glass and rainbow glass provide different degrees of permeability. A waterscape with a black marble base reflects the sky. Long gray marble benches offer places to rest.

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Open and Wild Greenway

Open and Wild

Open and Wild is a public greenway section in Wuhan, China, and forms part of the first phase of the East Lake greenway. The section covers about 310 hectares with Moshan Park at its core. The planning concept, Making the City Quiet, guides a route that leads from the lake to the forest and offers changing spatial experiences. Existing landscape features and roads of Moshan are preserved to retain historical memory. Buildings, lighting, signs, rest facilities and paving are designed in detail. The revetment design protects the water environment and the natural vegetation.

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Mercury Hotel Garden

Mercury

Mercury is a hotel garden designed for the entrance area of a hotel on the coral coast of Kish Island, beside the Persian Gulf. The garden covers 1200 square meters. The forms are taken from the underwater world, in particular the corals and fish seen along the coast. Different lighting is applied on each side and angle to create contrast. At night, the illuminated coral garden recalls the bioluminescent coastal creatures of the Persian Gulf. The aim is to bring a sense of sea calm into the space of the hotel.

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Meeting Axis Deers Pocket Park

Meeting Axis Deers

This project aims to reshape the site's environmental impression, respecting local topography, meeting societal needs, and creating a low-carbon garden that integrates with nature. Focused on native low-altitude Taiwanese plants, the design reflects flatland terrain, with local wildflowers and grasses enhancing the scenery and fragrance. Surrounding grasslands exhibit unique ecosystems akin to low-altitude mountain forests, featuring a "Fern Garden" beneath trees, highlighting Taiwan's diverse fern kingdom ecology.

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Forest of Art Landscapes

Forest of Art

Forest of Art is a landscape design for a 2000 square meter site in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in October 2020. The site lies at the junction of three parks, on a downtown corner facing a walkway to a school. The building was turned 45 degrees to face the school on the diagonal side, leaving more room for planting. Planter boxes arranged in an arc surround a sky walkway that connects with arbours. Multi-layer planting at the entrance makes the street corner appear as a forest linked to the sky walkway.

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Modern Elegance Garden

Modern Elegance

The garden, which is the showcase of the owners, is dominated by transparency and harmony. The garden has a changeable character at the turn of the year. It was designed so that in addition to evergreen plants constituting the base, perennials and shrubs in shades of white and purple flourish in it. Thanks to the large glazing of the house, greenery almost penetrates into its interior. A strong decorative accent is a bonfire with wooden benches and a metal hearth in the vicinity of a minimalist wooden playground. In summer, thanks to its simplicity, limited colors, the garden calms.

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Shang Yuan Demonstration Center

Shang Yuan

Shang Yuan is a landscape design for a demonstration center in Wuxi, China. The overall layout draws on the dignified form of the Summer Palace, while the details refer to the delicate gardens of the Jiangnan region. The plan follows a pattern of one hall, two axes, three entrances, five rituals and six gardens, so each garden offers a different view to moving visitors. Techniques such as hollow-out walls and borrowed scenery extend the sense of space. Building roofs adopt Tang-style cornices, and permeable, wear-resistant materials support urban rainwater management.

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Ten Six Hundred Riverside Boutique Hotel

Ten Six Hundred

Ten Six Hundred is the landscape design of a riverside boutique hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The name refers to the postal code 10600 of the Khlong San district. The hotel covers about 1,835 square meters and holds 31 rooms in two buildings, and it can be reached by car or by boat. The design draws on traditional riverside houses of the city, and their patterns are repeated in the hardscape. Palm trees connect the different levels, while plants suited to high groundwater keep maintenance simple. The intent is a calm setting for rest and leisure.

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Cloud Building Landscape Design

Cloud Building

Cloud Building is a landscape design for a demonstration area of 4,052 square meters in Nanchang, China. Modern technology and traditional gardening ideas are combined to shape the space. Paving and lawn form an open and clear layout with strong color contrast. Large floor-to-ceiling glass and a special-shaped planting pond link the garden with the indoor scene. Regular-sized granite paving stones reduce construction difficulty and cost. Lighting interaction, intelligent sensing and voice control support the interaction between people and space.

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Plot 140 POLY Guanggang Residential Landscape

Plot 140 POLY Guanggang

Plot 140 Poly Guanggang is a residential landscape design in Guangzhou, China, covering a landscape area of 21000 square meters. The site is long and narrow, with a north-south distance of only 40 meters. A vertical garden was created to enlarge the green space within the compact urban setting. An elevated pedestrian corridor with a steel frame links the whole site and the surrounding landscape resources. Rust-colored steel plates recall the former steel works on the site. Play features support children and parent-child interaction.

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Surfland Resort

Surfland

Surfland is a resort and surf park located in Garopaba, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The main attraction is an artificial wave pool that allows surfing throughout the year, for beginners and experienced surfers alike. The site covers 400,000 square meters, of which 233,000 square meters are kept as an environmental preservation area. Buildings occupy only open ground, so existing vegetation is not cut. Natural stone, wood, concrete, steel, sand and native plants are used. The landscape follows the fluid forms of water.

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Archipelago Show Garden

Archipelago

This enchanting show garden, selected for the Suncheon International Garden Fair from April to October 2023, captures coastal scenery inspired by South Korea's South Sea. Using sand for concept modeling and laser scanning for topographical design, it highlights the coastline's natural beauty and showcases innovative garden design. This fusion of art, technology, and nature invites visitors to immerse in the beauty and creativity of landscape architecture, embodying the harmony between nature and human ingenuity.

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