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China’s city of the future moves step closer in Greater Bay Area plan

  • Open space design for Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base project gets the green light
  • Campus environment will link city’s urban fabric and ecological systems

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The winning design for the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base flagship open space. Photo: Handout
Phoebe Zhang
China’s southern technology powerhouse of Shenzhen has set on a design for a flagship public open space, part of its ambitious plans to create a new city centre.

The winning design, by Berkeley-based TLS Landscape Architecture and London architectural firm AZMPL, was announced in July. Tom Leader, founder and principal of TLS, said “Super Campus” had been modelled on places like the Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the US university’s campus.

The public space will be a central green axis between the numerous skyscrapers planned for the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base project, which will see the creation of a new business district on the waterfront.

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An artist’s impression of the campus-style open space. Photo: Handout
An artist’s impression of the campus-style open space. Photo: Handout
The city centre masterplan is part of the Greater Bay Area scheme, which aims to link Hong Kong and Macau with Shenzhen and eight other cities in the southern province of Guangdong to form an economic and business hub.
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The 117-hectare Super HQ Base will contain offices and three signature towers. Construction has already started on headquarters for world-class companies, including telecommunications giant ZTE and China Vanke, the mainland's third-largest home builder.

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