Located in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, the Shadong village, where sits the buildings of this project, was erected in December 1995. The local economic corporation in the late 90s constructed on the commune?s fringe land a 4-storey warehouse leased to the Guangzhou Book Center for their new book storage.

Green Canyon created out of the abandoned site. Image © Chaos. Z

Architects: O-office Architects

Location: 51-52 Ganyuan Rd., Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Principal Architects: Jianxiang He, Ying Jiang

Project Architect: Jingyu Dong

Design Team: Chengqiang Huang, Xiaolin Chen, Yue Wang, Wanyi Zhang, Weisen Peng, Tao Zhang, Licong Lin, Zhen Fan, Mincong Deng

Client: Vanke Guangzhou
Structural Consultant: Qiyao Luo

Vi Design: another design

Area: 21000.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Chaos. Z, Zhi Xia

Landscaping bridges suturing between the former warehouses. Image © Chaos. Z

Text description provided by the architects. Located in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, the Shadong village, where sits the buildings of this project, was erected in December 1995. The local economic corporation in the late 90s constructed on the commune?s fringe land a 4-storey warehouse leased to the Guangzhou Book Center for their new book storage.

Floating landscaping bridges. Image © Chaos. Z

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