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The China Merchants Convention and Exhibition Bay Hilton Hotel in Shenzhen, a 68,800-square-meter landscape completed in 2021 for client Shenzhen Zhaohua International Convention and Exhibition Development and built by Guangzhou Huayuan Landscape, is organized around four atmospheric themes. Flowing light and accumulated depth sets the arrival: falling water converses with sculpture, starlight filters through, and the landscape matches the architecture to heighten a sense of honored reception, with points of light over murmuring water interpreting the space in alternating solid and void. Blue companion and holiday time presents a clean blue pool with linear planting, where lines and volumes meet to produce a bright, light vacation mood under golden sun on clear water. Dappled light in pursuit of nature uses a minimal design language and the charm of light and shadow to extend the space, blending architecture, landscape and nature into a boundary-less environment in which walking beneath greenery gently awakens body and mind. The urban stage, a sunken plaza, uses curving lines to layer rhythm and opens outward to animate the underground commercial street, with cascades, planting and forested rooms echoing the romance and freedom of the arc. Together the four themes stage a hotel landscape that is by turns ceremonial, resort-like, meditative and theatrical.
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