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Gemdale Royal Palace in Jinshan, Shanghai, is a French-style residential landscape whose design team, led by Tian Zheng and Mark with Shanghai Wubei Landscape, drew directly on Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, where the painter lived and worked for forty-three years. The garden is treated as a symbol of home, changing through the seasons, so the project pursues a living, growing, colourful landscape rather than a fixed pictorial stage. Several of Monet's paintings are translated into spatial scenes, their motifs extracted and composed into a poetic impressionist light-chasing estate. Completed in June 2020 after design began in November 2019, the 6,344-square-metre landscape sits at the intersection of Longhang Road and Mengshan North Road in Jinshan, developed by Shanghai Huabi Real Estate. A 3D-printed Eiffel Tower installation by Shanghai Dajie Robots anchors the composition, flower borders were built by Shanghai Jieyi Garden, play equipment by Hangzhou Aha Cultural Creative, and photography by Guangli Studio. The overall effect is one of French Romanticism as a lifestyle standard: an impressionist European garden that is perpetually in flower and offers abundant photographic moments. The design treats Monet's palette not as a literal reproduction but as a way of programming sequence, planting and atmosphere so that residents move through the garden as if through a series of paintings. Project details are limited in the source material.
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