Chengdu, HongKong land, BC

Hongkong Land Xiyuan in Chengdu is a hotel-inspired residential landscape located in the core of the Qingyang Western New Town, with design by GVL Landparse International Design Group's Chengdu office and a landscape area of 6,300 square metres completed in May 2022. Anchored in three thousand years of Chengdu's worldly life, the scheme draws on hotel culture, forest and daily life to stage a dialogue with everything within a constrained site, aiming to build a cultured, art-hotel-style community of understated luxury, hospitality and resort atmosphere in the city's west. The urban edge is the first visual memory: a low-slung, refined gatehouse separates the street's bustle, and a deliberately selected century-old black pine beside the portal signals exquisite, costly detailing. The designers obsess over materials, new technology and colour contrast, repeating debates until beauty appears in the granular details; throughout the district, near-human-scale details are custom-designed to deliver a low-luxury hotel-style future dwelling. A Prada-green luxury-stone feature wall sets off a front wave-form art sculpture, pairing precision with artistry in a language unique to Xiyuan. The private healing garden is organised as a courtyard living room above flowing water and among trees, where dynamic water, metal curtains and a hearth combine art and function. Beyond, the family reaches a fantasy forest of beach, floating islands and woodland: an open sandy summer play area where children build castles and adults play alongside them, a boardwalk threading trees to a tree-house lookout, a slow forest of layered planting in which children become natural explorers through swings and seasonal change, and a floating-island stream with shallow beaches, water wheels, interactive water guns and illuminated bubblers. The garden-style neighbourhood block offers an urban ideal of elegant, romantic, naturally therapeutic social life, where a coffee with two or three friends under the trees condenses the pleasure of living well. The team frames emotional design as art and rational design as product: artistry must be grounded by logic, so the project translates hotel artistry, luxury and experiential intensity into residential landscape through a contemporary, cultural vocabulary that redefines the standard of high-end living today.