Nanjing Vanke Jade Riverside Garden (Region)

Emerald Riverside Garden's built community phase, landscaped by A&N Collection Studio under Zou Yuda and Ke Yudong on a 38,000-square-meter site in Nanjing's Jianye District, pursues a sense of luxury that comes not only from light, material, line, texture and color, but from flowing artistry and vitality. The team seeks a blank space within the city for nature and for people to empty out, following a consistent principle of pure, romantic, refined natural garden imagery so that every returning home becomes a journey through a garden and a spiritual elevation. The garden is the core, and a sequence of gardens carries the main scenes, organized along an axial atrium whose rise, continuation, turn and closure assign each place its own function. A shop-window urban interface uses successive landscape walls to replace a conventional gate, strengthening a rhythm of solid and void and adding walking delight through light, shadow and relief; garage entries and the roundabout are connected yet independent, carving a compact ritual space. The flowing-light roundabout is inspired by the gemstone jade: rotating circles of different materials and water create tension, and blue-green glass with gold powder suggests the emerald's origin, flanked by paired walls that gather quiet strength. The floating-island garden continues the showroom's slow living into the delivered community, a high-tailored white-toned garden that defines the arrival sequence; beyond it, water steps down through pool walls into a Chinese tallow grove, and water-textured glass bricks graduate through the light. The planting palette is called sunset romanticism: early-blooming golden daisies, foxgloves, delphiniums, roses and irises open spring, while hydrangeas, agapanthus, verbena, sages and vitex carry summer, interwoven with Dianella, foxtail asparagus, New Zealand flax, dusty miller, rosemary and golden-variegated sweet flag. In the second garden, a water pavilion among trees hosts friends, and an open landscape trellis wraps a lawn cut like a square green gemstone. Entry paving uses four stone types and six finishes to lend daily passage a delicate texture, and every unit is framed by ordered walls within which continuous, passionate perennial borders flow.