Shenzhen Guangming Culture and Arts Center

Known as the "Oriental Silicon Valley", Guangming Science City is one of the fastest-growing and the most dynamic areas in the world. Its rapid urban expansion and population growth have brought unprecedented challenges to its natural system and urban environment, resulting in ecological and social issues. Thus, the government urgently needs a new development model to solve these problems.As the pilot project of Science City, Guangming Culture and Arts Center provides an opportunity for exploring a replicable model for future high-density development.

Lead by landscape architects, a team of owners, architects,scholars, consultants, contractors, and manufacturers has successfully transformed a traditional urban core landscape project into a multifunctional green block which addresses stormwater management, climate regulation,carbon sequestration and social issues. The project now redefines the relationship between the city and its green infrastructure, and expands the boundary of landscape architecture. The Guangming Culture and Arts Center has become not only a popular public open space in a highdensity setting, which it has become Guangming Science City's guiding identity and spirit.