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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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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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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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PurPle Jade Villa Residential Landscape

PurPle Jade Villa

Purple Jade Villa is a residential landscape design for a villa community in Beijing. The project forms the fifth and final phase of the development and continues the forest park theme of the earlier phases. Four single villas enclose water features fed by the lake within the site. Planting is dense and includes rare trees and other rare plants. Peacocks, cranes and wild birds live in the grounds. Waterfront and courtyard house types balance open views with privacy. The design was started in 2010 and completed in 2021.

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Zhao Zhou Community Park

Zhao Zhou

Zhao Zhou is a community park located in Haimen District, Nantong City, China. The park serves two roles: everyday community service and a commemorative green space honoring the Chinese musician Shen Zhaozhou. Music is the theme, and ten scenes guide visitors through the site. The core area follows a Fibonacci spiral composition, with the Art Center at the center enclosed by a series of inner courtyards. Roads run north to south and are lined with orderly rows of plants. Existing ditches were transformed into an ecological dry stream that collects rainwater.

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Blossom House Luxury Urban Resort Hotel

Blossom House

Blossom House is the landscape design of a resort hotel located in Zhongshan Mountain National Park in Nanjing, China. The design draws on the material language of the old city wall built in the Ming Dynasty. The elevation difference of the mountain landform is used to retain key trees and shrubs, and 74 kinds of ground cover and aquatic plants are added. Hard pavement is reduced and built with permeable materials. An infinite swimming pool with a misting system blends with the view of the lake. Platforms extend the interior spaces outwards and support social use.

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Suzhou Creek Waterfront and Campus Landscape

Suzhou Creek

Suzhou Creek is a waterfront and campus landscape design in Shanghai. The project covers about 93,600 square meters and includes about 900 meters of riverside frontage beside a university campus. Buildings that weakened the overall style were removed and the riverside area was widened. Steps were replaced by gentle slopes to remove height differences and enlarge the pedestrian space. Historical buildings and mature trees were retained. The former footpath and planting strip became a combined campus landscape, shared space and riverside promenade open to the public.

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Taiping New City Poetic Emerald Corridor Landscape Planning Design

Taiping New City Poetic Emerald Corridor

Taiping New City Poetic Emerald Corridor is a linear public park in Anning, Kunming, China. The green corridor is about 5.5 kilometres long and covers a landscape area of about 156.42 hectares. Four existing water ponds form the centres of four themed zones, devoted to technology, light and shadow, art and culture, and healthy living. A slow movement path links the zones and follows the existing terrain and water system. Lighting, water supply and drainage, sculpture and service facilities are part of the plan. The park gives nearby residents and office workers a place for rest and recreation.

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La Cadiere Garden City International Resort Center

La Cadiere Garden City

La Cadiere Garden City is a resort center landscape located at the core of the Tianfu New District. The planning area covers 200 hectares. The scheme includes a 12 hectare lake park, an 11 hectare mountain park and 28 hectares of green landscape area. Several landscape themes are combined, including garden style, holiday style and layered planting. More than 200 plant species are used, so the colors of the garden change with the seasons. The design aims to offer a restful living environment within a dense modern city.

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La Chapelle HQ  Landscape

La Chapelle HQ

La Chapelle Headquarter is a landscape design for a corporate headquarters in Shanghai. The site is located on South Lianhua Road and covers an area of 41860 square meters. The design is inspired by the sakura, or cherry blossom, and this element is repeated across the grounds. Tree varieties were selected according to the preferences of the client and to local culture. The building layout and the differences in ground level required careful research and spatial analysis. The work took one and a half years and seeks a balance between the building and the landscape.

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Eastern Garden Landscape

Eastern Garden

Eastern Garden is a landscape design for a residential community. The entrance is arranged in two sections to guide movement and protect the privacy of the residents. Layers, framed views, curved paths, light and shadow follow eastern garden traditions. A stainless steel sculpture stands beside a pool and is reflected in the water. Large floor-to-ceiling windows link the hall with the outdoor space. Native trees of southern Taiwan and diverse plants form a habitat that supports biodiversity. The pool also helps to moderate the local microclimate.

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