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Pazhou South Waterfront Park / SWA Group

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Pazhou Central Business District (CBD) is China's first "Science and Technology CBD + Bay Area TOD" complex in the city of Guangzhou. Starting from the initial stage of urban planning, the landscape system has been emphasized as green infrastructure connecting the future CBD, transportation hub, residential area and the Huangpu Chong River, mitigating the urban heat island. The 300-meter-long, 4-hectare Pazhou South Waterfront Park restores the natural riverfront from the existing rigid embankment, connecting the ecological corridors to the city. Integrating nature inspiration, ecological restoration and urban lifestyle, the park brings accessible nature riverside experience and public open spaces to the heart of the booming CBD.

The Clearing Memorial / SWA Group

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000

“The Clearing” was designed to honor the 20 children and six educators who were slain on Dec 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Landscape architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo created a competition‐winning design for a memorial space that is both open‐ended and unifying in how it is experienced, honoring the full spectrum of emotions this tragedy evokes.

Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront Cultural Park / SWA GROUP +AUBE CONCEPTION

Collin Chen — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Since its opening in August last year, Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront Cultural Park has become an Internet celebrity check-in place for Shenzhen citizens, with total visitor traffic reaching 199,000 people during the National Day Holiday this year. As the new generation of cultural tourism- a commercial complex project promoted by the OCT Group, the project is jointly designed by SWA Group, the lead designer and landscape architect of the park and Laguarda.Low Architects, the lead commercial architect in consortium with AUBE Conception. Located in the geographic center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (the Greater Bay Area) and northwest of Shenzhen, Bao'an District has undergone a gradual transformation and upgrade process into a new center of the international metropolis from a traditional manufacturing area, which also acts as the core to both interlinks the east and west coasts of the Pearl River Estuary and enhances the integrated development of the Greater Bay Area. Sitting within the central green axis of central Bao'an where the urban bustle meets the bay's tranquility, Shenzhen Bao'an Waterfront Cultural Park (the Park) integrates coastal leisure, cultural tourism, artistic experiences, and ecological workplaces to address the creation of "new urban coordinates of an international coastal city and a world-class b ay-side destination".