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Set in Jiading, Shanghai, the Gemdale Upview display landscape was designed by Shanghai Wubei Landscape, with design directors Tian Zheng and Mark Dunstan, on a 7,627-square-metre site delivered between July and December 2020. The design narrative opens with the image of a tiny asteroid beneath an endless galaxy, stepping on the Milky Way and looking up at the starry sky. The Upview series is positioned around the idea that design defines fashion, that space creates enjoyment, that pleasure accompanies growth, and that technology renews experience; the landscape therefore pursues a stylish, all-age, shared and humanist atmosphere. Starry-sky and forest motifs are extracted as the project's organising elements, fusing natural beauty with urban life so that the small site still carries the full character of the Upview brand. The plan is arranged as a sequence of display spaces in which planting, paving and light effects stage the contrast between cosmic depth and urban comfort. The result is a compact but fashionable demonstration ground that frames a future lifestyle as much as it markets a residential product, with every detail calibrated to the developer and designer's shared ambition of a stylish, creative contemporary landscape.