Yujin xincheng

Times Yujing New City is a residential landscape in Dongsheng Town, Zhongshan, designed by BOX Landscape Practice Office and photographed by Zhizong Luo. Drawing on the local natural and humanistic life of the town, the design takes stone as its primary carrier and revives the ancient art of weaving as a contemporary landscape gesture. Perforated, woven river stones rest silently on the surface of still water as if in thought, presenting a quiet humanistic aesthetic rather than a decorative spectacle. When sunlight strikes the varied pebbles lying layered in the shallow water, their overlapping shadows and transmitted reflections seem to hold a conversation, as though the stones themselves were works of art placed in dialogue with one another. Rejecting flashy, exaggerated accumulation and the piling-up of fashionable objects, the team pursues an extremely minimal modern language in which a single material, stone, carries the entire composition. The perforated, woven treatment gives the heavy, inert material a light, almost textile quality, so that the water-edge scene reads as both rugged and delicate. Water becomes the quiet medium that activates the stones: still surfaces reflect them, moving water sounds around them, and the play of shadow and light across the perforations animates the scene without adding any further ornament. The result is a restrained, contemplative waterscape that respects the local Guangdong town's understated character. Project details are limited in the source material.