Chongqing Sunac - Culture & Tourism City - Jin Yu0

Jinyu at Sunac Cultural Tourism City in Xiyong, Chongqing, is a modern commercial-plus-high-rise residential landscape on a 40,000-square-metre site with 21,000 square metres of designed landscape, developed by Sunac Chongqing and named for the Liangtan River, whose winding outline the design treats as a local cultural memory. The project's starting point is the contrast between straight lines as human order and curves as nature, fusing the two to narrate a journey along the Liangtan — first sight, returning to harbour, entering a dream — while referencing the river's "flowing wine cup" outings and its snow-like waterfalls. Geometry and floating elements combine into a modern sculpture garden held together by a multi-experience core that alternates tension and release. The entry water feature, "Snowflake Welcomes Guests," presents a full frontal water-wall facade with an arc-shaped curtain, the snowflake gradient motif recurring in the water, screen walls and benches; planting layers the small plot into a progressive, natural discovery garden that fuses modernity with nature. "Hill of Embracing Views" is an open, artistic, lightweight lawn where an old tree and a gently edged, stepped lawn create a shared outdoor living room shaded by planting and ringed by water, maximising the value of the internal court. The "Water-Cloud Gorge" pool is a layered, human-scaled layout enclosed by hedges, with contrast between still water, lush planting, hard paving and flowing lines; the poolside combines lounging and party decks so the regular edge never feels monotone. Beyond the core, several artistic courts extend the vocabulary: the soft, romantic Manyue Court reads like flying snow and cloud; the Boundless Garden hosts contemporary topiary spring azaleas for a quiet, refined return; the Elegant Bamboo Court uses raw timber-toned screen walls, a green-island planter that evokes a small boat on the Liangtan, and golden-leaf rushes; the under-canopy Linlihui gymnasium sits on micro-slopes in a forest-like planting; and the Children's "Jungle Fun" play area borrows the mountain's undulation, uses camouflage-coloured surfacing, and pairs a large banyan canopy with ornamental grasses to give children a small wildwood to explore.