Positioned on the southern edge of Beijing?s Chaoyang Park ? the largest remaining park in Beijing?s central business district area ? the 220,000 sqm complex includes 10 buildings which unfold as a classic Shanshui painting on an urban scale. Having a similar position and function as Central Park in Manhattan, but unlike the modern box-like buildings that only create a separation between the park and the city, ?Chaoyang Park Plaza? instead is an expansion of nature. It is an extension of the park into the city, naturalizing the CBD?s strong artificial skyline, borrowing scenery from a distant landscape ? a classical approach to Chinese garden architecture, where nature and architecture blend into one another.

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Architects: MAD Architects

Location: Beijing, China
Principals In Charge: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano

Associate Partners In Charge: Kin Li, Liu Huiying

Team: Fu Changrui, Zhao Wei, Li Guangchong, Lin Guomin, Bennet Hu Po-Kang, Nathan Kiatkulpiboone, Yang Jie, Julian Sattler, Younjin Park, Zhu Jinglu, Xue Yan, Zheng Fang, Matteo Vergano, Wing Lung Peng, Gustavo Maya, Li Yunlong, Tiffany Dahlen, Gustaaf Alfred Van Staveren

Area: 223009.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Hufton+Crow

Client: Smart-hero (HK) Investment Development Limited

Executive Architects: CCDI Group

Façade Consultant: RFR Asia

Interior Design: MADA s.p.a.m...