Yangzhou Vanke City Riverside Garden

Vanke Metropolis Riverside Garden in Yangzhou, developed by Yangzhou Xinda Shun Real Estate with 17,500 square metres of landscape by A&N Collection Studio's Collection Studio led by Zou Yuda and Ke Yudong, and interiors by Shanghai Leshan, sits on a 55,576-square-metre site in Guangling New Town, the so-called "Ten-Mile Bund" of a city known as the first canal city of China. Yangzhou's water-borne history means a rare first-line riverfront is now a scarce resource, and the project is positioned as a high-end park-experience plus lived-in demonstration that stages urban leisure through a waterside resort. The master concept is a natural garden floating on the water, where natural texture meets modern design language, and the garden itself becomes a carrier for the city's idea of a beautiful life. At the city frontage, the Unbounded Square extends the building horizontally so that it seems to float above greenery, with white surfaces that invite light, shadow and water lines to play. At the park frontage, the landscape steps back to open the space: a Light Oxygen Park runs through pure natural flower borders, and a Courteous Court leads from the quiet garden into the core clubhouse, marking the transition that will later define the neighbourhood's edge. The waterside garden is the project's heart: a continuous, changing floating-island flower border frames a still, central reflecting pool under which the building seems to float, light and shadow moving across the water as clouds pass. Along the Chasing-Light Waterfront, gentle cascades and a clubhouse half-hidden in planting deliver an urban-resort atmosphere, while the twilight water scenes — a water wall paired with graduated louvres — offer different water moods from daylight through evening. The project is presented as a continuation of Yangzhou's civic waterfront, a slow resort-like dream in which visitors slow down enough to be answered by the landscape itself.