status: completed in 2017
location: Guangzhou, China
surface: 12.000sqm
client: Guangzhou Vanke China
photography: Masao Nishikawa
The Guangzhou Garden Retail is a place of retail and nature merging together, where people feel more relaxing and comfort. There, time flows slowly. Unlike the urban retail experience, the garden retail gives you a calmer and slower experience in space and time.
"Guangzhou Garden Retail II" aims to continue Guangzhou Garden Retail concept in an urban setting.
Through the challenge to carry the same concept in an urban area, it was proved that this concept was still achievable, even in non-natural environment, but with different design tactics. The tactics are: more enclosed rather than open, more formed rather than natural, and more metaphorical rather than symbolical. Consequently it made a great achievement.
location: Guangzhou, China
surface: 12.000sqm
client: Guangzhou Vanke China
photography: Masao Nishikawa
The Guangzhou Garden Retail is a place of retail and nature merging together, where people feel more relaxing and comfort. There, time flows slowly. Unlike the urban retail experience, the garden retail gives you a calmer and slower experience in space and time.
"Guangzhou Garden Retail II" aims to continue Guangzhou Garden Retail concept in an urban setting.
Through the challenge to carry the same concept in an urban area, it was proved that this concept was still achievable, even in non-natural environment, but with different design tactics. The tactics are: more enclosed rather than open, more formed rather than natural, and more metaphorical rather than symbolical. Consequently it made a great achievement.
“广州春风十里”的设计概念是花园零售，旨在打造一个集购物消费与自然体验于一体的情景商业花园。与其它城市喧嚣的购物中心不同，在这里时间缓缓流逝，通过实践围合、营造与隐喻的设计手法，春风十里为顾客提供宁静与清闲的时空体验。
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