POLY·NEW CITY CENTER

Poly Xinhui City is located in the Zumiao area of Chancheng, Foshan, at a dual-TOD hub surrounded by five horizontal and five vertical arterial roads. The northern district is being developed around Foshan Railway Station and Zhongshan Park metro stations, together with a waterfront green core, to create a comprehensive hub integrating health, wellness, commerce and exhibition functions. Poly South China collaborated with GND Landscape on the demonstration zone, taking urban nature as the design motif and organizing the project as a train-themed lifestyle experience center. The design is structured around five stations. The starting station features a tall, sculptural spirit sign that opens the narrative, with an entrance plaza containing an art water feature, theme IP sculpture, smart waiting shelter and leisure benches. The welcoming station uses a narrow tree-lined approach to create a poetic, circuitous path that slows visitors before revealing the main space. The interactive station centers on a memory plaza organized around a preserved ancient banyan tree, with small platforms, linear benches and fitness equipment, alongside a children's play area where undulating grass mounds simulate natural hills and interactive play equipment themed on a high-speed train tunneling through mountains combines climbing, sliding and crawling. The riverside terminal station faces Fenshui River and an adjacent park, with a design concept of connection that integrates local river culture into the landscape through cultural signage and egret installations. Elevated walkways, terraces and stepped landscapes create a multi-level waterfront open space supporting seating, viewing, running and cycling. The final model-home ceremonial space uses a circular layout with layered planting to compose an ordered yet graceful arrival sequence.