Located in Yingde, China, the Yingde Xintiandi Dongyicheng Lifestyle Hub is envisioned as a contemporary landmark that harmonizes dense urban living with elevated green experiences. Designed as a vertical sanctuary, the development layers retail, recreational, and communal spaces into a dynamic tower composition. With architecture that blurs the boundaries between structure and landscape, the hub fosters social interaction, wellbeing, and ecological awareness within a high-density framework. From its stepped terraces to its porous ground plane, the project redefines lifestyle-centric architecture by balancing commercial vibrancy with contemplative green zones.
Location
Yinde, China
Completion
Ongoing
GFA
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Client
Guangdong Dongyiwan Property Dev. Co. Ltd
Services
Architecture
Urban Lightform – Sculpting Vertical Clarity in Yingde
The architectural presence of Yingde Xintiandi Dongyicheng Lifestyle Hub is defined by clarity, transparency, and vertical lightness. Rising prominently from a bustling urban base, the tower’s clean glass façade is punctuated with sharp folds and vertical fins, forming a sleek silhouette that catches and reflects daylight. The geometric articulation on its elevation—particularly along the building’s corner apex—functions as both a formal gesture and a climatic response, helping to shade and diffuse glare while giving the tower an elegant, origami-like precision. The podium below the tower anchors the development with retail and community spaces, its glass and stone expression creating a welcoming, human-scaled interface with the city.
The interplay of solid and transparent volumes encourages urban permeability and invites movement through arcades and plazas. Altogether, the composition presents a balanced dialogue between monumentality and approachability—between landmark expression and everyday use.
The design strategy also considers the broader urban fabric by integrating active ground-level frontages and public gathering zones that foster a sense of community. Landscaped pockets, outdoor seating, and shaded walkways soften the commercial intensity of the hub, offering respite amidst the vertical rise. At night, architectural lighting transforms the tower into a glowing urban beacon—its façade shimmering like a lantern—symbolizing Yingde’s growing aspirations as a connected and contemporary city.
Interwoven Towers and Terraces
The masterplan of Yingde Xintiandi Dongyicheng Lifestyle Hub establishes a vertically integrated mixed-use precinct, where residential towers rise elegantly above a multi-level podium of retail, leisure, and communal spaces. This architectural strategy creates a dynamic layering of functions that seamlessly connects urban density with lifestyle convenience. Pedestrian-friendly circulation networks and rooftop gardens offer a breathable, human-scaled environment within a high-rise setting. Each component is choreographed to respond to its context, ensuring fluid connectivity between the public realm and private domains.
The Yingde Xintiandi Dongyicheng Lifestyle Hub concludes as a thoughtful response to evolving urban demands—fusing vertical living, retail vibrancy, and social interaction into one coherent architectural narrative. Through its integration of scale, transparency, and spatial layering, the development not only enhances the skyline but also cultivates a sense of place that is immersive, inclusive, and forward-looking.
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