Key Dates
06 Jan -Winners Announced
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Project Overview
The project is situated in the core area of the Bai'e Tan Business District in Liwan District, Guangzhou. It is adjacent to the Greater Bay Area Art Center, bordered by MixC to the west, and enjoys a prime river view in this first-tier city. With "Eastern Charm and Western Realm" as its core design concept, the project integrates Guangzhou's characteristics of openness, inclusiveness, and the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures. It explores the historical context of the Thirteen Hongs from a cultural perspective, aiming to create a world-class riverside luxury residence that combines an international vision with the cultural heritage of the Cantonese region, as well as a "floating city on water" at the confluence of the three rivers.
Organisation
Team
Tan Cai, Jiang Dong, Lin Feng, Pan Xu, Liu Zhe, Zeng Qiutan , Zhang Xueqin, Hua
Project Brief
Taking urban publicness as its starting point, the project benchmarks world-class business districts. It connects spaces via axes, incorporates urban supporting facilities, and creates an urban residential space that integrates art, commerce, and culture.
The buildings adapt to the site conditions and act in line with local circumstances: by twisting their own forms, they bring external scenery into the internal garden and maximize the garden landscape. In terms of height, space is utilized to the fullest—small units are arranged on the lower floors, while large units are placed on the higher floors. The podium complements the surrounding supporting functions, infiltrates the riverside ecological landscape into the community, and leverages resources to build a unique supporting system for the project. Through modern design techniques, the project interprets the "Lingnan Lighthouse" concept and creates a landmark that serves as the "face" of the city.
Project Innovation/Need
The facade design integrates Eastern and Western elements, achieving a gradual transition from classical culture to contemporary luxury and sophistication. Drawing inspiration from the form of Guangzhou's qilou (arcade houses), the podium reinterprets the most iconic curved arch structure of Guangzhou's qilou in a three-dimensional way by combining it with Baroque-style decorative techniques. This transforms the three-dimensional philosophy of the century-old arcades into a narrative language for the contemporary facade.
The tower body adopts the classic gradient technique used in international landmark luxury residences, infusing the building with upward vertical vitality. It gradually transitions from the classical and profound style of the lower levels (rooted in local culture) to the modern and sleek aesthetic of the upper levels. The tower crown draws design inspiration from that of the White Swan Hotel; its meticulously crafted 45° inverted triangular shape, elegant and magnificent, becomes a super symbolic feature in the city skyline.
Design Challenge
After being divided by roads, individual plots are relatively small in scale. This project transforms such unfavorable factors into advantages through the following approaches:
1.Shift from engineering design to landscape design, enabling the sharing of both urban landscapes and plot-specific landscapes.
2.Shift from street design to neighborhood scene creation, innovating the way urban scenes are crafted.
3.Shift from road red-line design to integrated design, opening up the setback spaces of buildings along the street.
4.Shift from focusing solely on above-ground space design to emphasizing both above-ground and underground spaces, coordinating the intensive utilization of the three-dimensional street space.
It is expected to provide owners with an entirely new residential community model; meanwhile, the vibrant streets will create new opportunities for fostering better neighborhood relationships.
Sustainability
This project focuses on the psychological feelings that building forms, materials, and spaces bring to those who purchase properties here.
With classic forms and high-end materials, it draws inspiration from international classical arch aesthetics and Carlo Scarpa’s exquisite stepped craftsmanship to create meticulously crafted arched steps, exuding elegance and solemnity. Referencing the design genes of top-tier global landmark luxury residences, the project integrates the towering posture formed by geometric blocks, the vertical lines with minimalist strokes, and the panoramic glass curtain wall design into the delicate horizontal metal lines. Contemporary construction methods and material matching endow the project with more humanistic care.
The design incorporates public spaces and street-facing commerce into a unified creation, serving as a gathering place for social interaction and community activities, as well as a venue to enjoy the surrounding environment. It brings people together, encourages connections among various social circles, and provides more opportunities to foster a sense of belonging. From a human-centric perspective, it offers residents a neighborhood landscape that embodies a sense of belonging, memorable features, natural comfort, safety, vitality, and accessibility, realizing a "Four-Season Flower Hall" that is suitable for both living and visiting.
Architecture - Commercial - Proposed
This award celebrates the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow. The project can be a concept, tender or personal project, i.e. proposed space.
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