Nanning Jinke City

Jinke City sits in the Five Elephants New District of Nanning, Guangxi, a planned new urban core oriented toward the Beibu Gulf, with mature education, medical, commercial and park amenities nearby, around 800 metres from a planned metro station and ringed by mountain scenery. The client is Jinke Group, and the landscape is by ACA Maiken Landscape's Fourth Studio led by the ACA design team, covering 7,750 square metres and designed in 2020, with photography by Riy. The design treats the architecture as a big box that carries art and inspires landscape, taking up the idea of an "ART BOX" that fuses with Nanning's tree-and-mountain way of life. From this "poetic box" concept, the team emphasises spatial fusion - the meeting of reason and feeling - and organises the grounds around water, groves and light to weave links among people, landscape, architecture and art. A clean pool and simple linear planting create a quiet, airy atmosphere of multi-dimensional, multi-sensory experience, where wind, rain, sun and tree become objects to be perceived, expressing an atmosphere and environmental aesthetics. A fine water-curtain wall layers near and far views into stillness, and minimalist lines and shadow dissolve boundaries so that architecture, landscape and interior merge without edges. A white-framed pergola beside the pool, with chaise longues, appears to float on the water. Elsewhere, an array of Terminalia trees frames an open lawn furnished for resort-style relaxation, while winding paths and water sculptures extend the landscape into residents' daily radius. Low planting is arranged in rhythmic layers, and still water mirrors the architecture to reinforce calm. The construction itself is treated as live performance, with designers and contractors refining the site until the project becomes the backdrop of city life.