Hong Kong Land Jinhu Cui Lin

Hongkong Land's Jinhu Cuilin in Chongqing, with landscape design by GVL, places two ideas side by side as its organising principles: time and garden. The designers aim to create a refined, artistic, memory-laden quality space that points toward a future residential lifestyle, using modern means to pay homage to nature and interlaced forms to suggest spatial extension. The material palette is deliberately rich but not noisy, and the result is meant to read as restrained, minimal and quietly atmospheric rather than as a display of luxury. At the entrance, offset and interlocking walls create a sense of spatial extension that pulls visitors into a mysterious garden world, and the long, narrow approach is staged with deliberate suspense: the collision of solid masses and curved lines is read as a tension between the real and the imagined. Multiple turns and alternating open and enclosed episodes build a ritual arrival, and refined feature walls act as the transition between outside and inside. A sculpture of open book pages echoes the time-and-garden theme, as if scattered leaves of history have fallen to the ground and become the secret path into the garden. Large plantings of goldenrain trees establish a shaded understorey with dappled light, so that light filtered through leaves moves across the walls as wind passes through. A linear water feature runs along the route like a stream threading the woods, inviting visitors to sit and pause. The whole sequence is meant to unfold as a walk through a garden of time, where planting, water, sculpture and wall surfaces combine to produce a quiet, poetic atmosphere. The project is located in Chongqing, with architecture by En'an Architecture Studio of Shanghai.