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Qingyun Que in Xi'an is developed by Longfor Group's Xi'an-Zhengzhou company, with landscape architecture by DAOYUAN Design's Sanjing and Siye studios. Xi'an, the thirteen-dynasty capital and once the centre of Tang-dynasty Chang'an, infuses the project, whose design draws on the poem "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" to translate Tang-style mountain-water dwelling into modern luxury. The 65-metre display facade is set in a restrained minimalist grey, with cloud motifs - an ancient Chinese auspicious pattern for rising and good fortune - inlaid into glass and metal panels; pines and atmospheric lighting in a glazed window add poetic detail. Beyond the gatehouse, red maples and placed stones compose an elegant image, and a Tang-rhyme corridor unfurls three landscape pictures - winding streams among peaks, layered green ridges and emerald pools with flying waterfalls - along the promenade. Dappled light through foliage, reflections in still pools and mist over the cascades stage a space that is crafted by human hand yet appears of nature, bringing the classical Chinese ideal of shanshui painting into a contemporary residential setting.
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