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Commercial Landscape Winner at the 2022 AMP Awards
The Suzhou Longfor Paradise Walk has won the 2022 AMP Award in the Commercial Landscape category . In the pursuit of creating animated public life , the design imagines a series of moon-themed narrative spaces that are integrated with the configuration of theater typologies , reconceptualizing multiplicity of public realm that elevates human participation and experiences .
Cultural Relationship with the Moon The project is a community-based commercial complex located on the banks of Yangcheng Lake in China . The retail development is divided by a waterway , with a larger west block and a central courtyard plaza facing towards it . The east block is long and narrow , serving as a children ’ s activity center .
Yangcheng Lake is famous for its long-standing culture of crab-eating during Chinese Mid-autumn Festival , also known as the Mooncake Festival . It is a time of year in Chinese culture for appreciating the moon and for celebrating family , with families and friends gathering together during the mid-autumn festival to observe the moon . The fast-paced world of Chinese development calls for a modern interpretation of the reminiscence of traditions , which inspired the design team to articulate the landscape that focuses on a reinterpretation of the moon .
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