Shenyang China since khe sanh innovation park

CR Land Runxi Mountain Innovation Park in Shenyang, designed by Libai Metropolis for China Resources Land Shenyang, is a children's play landscape organised around the metaphor of a giant gift box. The design team argues that urban children have few spaces that match their innate nature, and that festivals have been over-packaged by consumerism, replacing the core of celebration with signs of desire. The "urban gift box" concept uses rich, inventive spatial structure and scene-based design to hold the playfulness of children and adults alike, following the narrative from the discovery of a surprising box to an exploration of its interior. Children are cast as little heroes who crawl and climb toward the destination, who find a mysterious hole that becomes, with a speed slide, a wormhole linking another strange world, and who pass through a photo-frame moment that freezes a smile forever. The designers extract textures from the gifts themselves—ribbons, paper, bows, boxes—and recombine them across the site, while the dream-like palette of fairy tales runs through the whole scheme, producing an artistic, integrated parent-child play space. The design returns to a memory of 1970s, 1980s and 1990s childhood: concrete pipes dumped on street corners, courtyards for hide-and-seek, the thrill of flat rooftops and neighbours' yards, all of which become lasting memories. By contrast, contemporary play spaces are often locked inside a "steel forest" where children cannot initiate activity on their own. The project's founding principle, shared by the Jigao Dreamworks team, is that design should help children build a worldview and return the initiative for play to them. The hope is that in the fairy-tale world built here, children can laugh, run and embrace joy every day, while adults set down their fatigue, recover their own inner child, and share soft, innocent parent-child time with their children.