Chongqing pattern in hockney's a good time

Fantasia Hockney's Good Times is a 4,000-square-metre residential display landscape in Xiyong, Shapingba District, Chongqing, completed in 2021, designed by Weimarg Landscape Planning and Design's Shenzhen branch for Fantasia Holdings, with construction by Sichuan Jintianxia Garden Engineering and photography by Prism. The project is a love letter to David Hockney, the British art knight, Order of Merit recipient, most expensive living painter and key figure of 1960s pop art, who at 84 still paints on an iPad and famously declares he wants life always to be exciting. Extending its artistic antennae, inspired by Chongqing as an eight-dimensional magical city, and marking the debut of Fantasia's 'Fun' product line, the design re-translates Californian sunlight, Hockney's brilliant palette, freewheeling primitive energy and his celebrated pool portraits onto the layered, reflective terrain of Bayu. The commercial front and secondary entrance take Hockney's boldest late work, Caribbean Tea Time, as their theme, scattering rich colour and imaginative geometry so that visitors stepping into the commercial plaza feel a flowing, brilliant atmosphere and read the evolution of civilisation and the power of fashion within a refined geometric order. At the community entrance plaza, the team reconstructs, at near-life scale, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), the painting that sold for 626 million yuan and reset the record for a living artist: the pool's undulating surface, irregular blocks of varying depth, planar blue fields and free white lines seek to recover the naturalism of the original, and looking down into it one feels transported to a Californian world where quiet is ruptured by the frame and emotion solidifies into splashing water. Beyond, an independent-module resin-brick and silk wall reproduces Hockney's Andalusian garden, separating Californian sunlight from the between-house greenery; the multi-point perspective mosaic, realistic yet slightly distorted, opens the ceremony of arrival. In the residential courtyard, the team re-creates Yorkshire Woldgate's Spring, planting trees of air, earth and dream, perspective trees and flat-painted trees, like brocade leading the eye into a secret spring. The entrance stairs take Cubist Bar as their motif, extracting a clear cobalt blue for folded planter beds; under changing light, geometry and colour tame each other in sunlight. The waterside living room reconstructs the palette of A Garden with a Blue Terrace, vivid and restrained at once, a setting for meditation, reading and conversation, while the all-age sports field borrows from Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy to build 'Fun Forest' and 'Fun Time' zones with Percy the cat as an interactive IP and a collage wall recalling Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica, awakening the art in childhood.