Xi 'an Daming Palace Jinmao Mansion

The Jinmao Palace in Xi'an's Daming Palace district is a residential showroom landscape that seeks to merge the monumental weight of the Tang-era Daming Palace with the refined, artistic taste of contemporary top-tier living. The client is China Jinmao Xi'an, with landscape design by L&A Beijing Group One, interiors by CCD and contractor Hangzhou Bilantian. Working on a constrained 8,600 square-meter site with complex surrounding conditions and an irregular building footprint, the team extended the experiential path and controlled its emotional rhythm through a sequence of nodes, using minimal strokes to match the building's multiple forms. An 80-meter-wide south elevation faces the city as the showcase facade; semi-transparent reeded glass turns the garden inside into flowing light that draws visitors inward. A floating bridge and an open oak wood meander through the front court, a vacated water court echoes the building in the middle, and a domed cloister at the rear extends the interior refinement while sorting out complex circulation. At the reception hall, the transparent facade, rough natural stone and crystalline water create a layering of solid and void, and falling water seals out the noise of the city. A curved gallery stretches the route, its reeded-glass screens, clipped hedges and aligned Nuttall oaks forming a memorable sequence of pure lines; at its end, the view opens and the rough stone, soft hedges and mature trees set off the composed building as if it had stood in the forest for centuries. An arc-shaped bridge resolves the turning circulation, and the terrain is laid out as green islands dotted with multi-stem hackberries. In the antechamber, 195 parametrically fabricated ultra-clear tempered glass seats rise in varied sizes to suggest rolling waves, catching light like rippling water. In the sand-table area, a water feature reconciles the building's multiple forms beneath twin Chinese tallow trees, while a circular domed cloister ties together several entries, focusing sight on sculpted pines and layered cascades; an outdoor negotiation area is softened by falling water and rain curtains. The 6,820-square-meter landscape delivers a grand, pure, natural showroom that responds to the Daming Palace's monumentality while awakening visitors' longing for life.