City light

Facing Xinyue Lake, Gemdale brings its Metropolis series product, drawing on the design ethos of great world cities such as New York and Manhattan to create a cover image for Xinyue Lake New Town. The project is located in Xinjian District on the northwestern side of Nanchang, at the intersection of several expressways, with convenient transport and mature surrounding amenities. The design converses with life rather than seeking perfection, embracing changing daily life and careful observation. A beacon-lit harbor guides people home, and the project loads the image of the sea onto the site, using an embracing posture to express marine modernity. In composition, the team fuses the deconstructivism of Dan Kiley, blending the linear imagery of ship decks and lighthouses into a surreal collision of forms that balances reality and dream. The main entrance resembles the bow of a ship cutting through the sea, and a large-scale water feature adds grandeur to the urban interface. A dolphin sculpture outlines a dynamic curve with the fountain, becoming the most visually striking centerpiece, while the integrated waterscape creates a smooth transition between landscape and architecture, with shallow ripples echoing Xinyue Lake in the distance. The leisure plaza's scale was studied in repeated rounds, using deck-like paving and geometric interweaving to create a refined, light spatial pattern, blending metropolitan elegance and vintage charm with luxury expressed through light. The interactive courtyard uses layered spatial atmosphere, with umbrella-shaped support columns that create a three-dimensional landscape, and at night light and shadow become a colorful canopy. The fashionable landscape corridor near the building uses regular axes and arrays to create ritual, with arched openings that act as independent objects while contributing to an interwoven experience. Light and shadow fuse architectural massing with landscape, and the material texture and color carry both metropolitan weight and modern fashion.