Foshan LingNan TianDi

‘Foshan Lingnan Tiandi’, 2019 ULI International Award for Excellence winner is a unique urban renewal development in Foshan China. Composed of reconstituted traditional mid-19th century classical Lingnan architecture with narrow alleys of brick and stone, The landscape environment reflects a very strong indoor/outdoor scaling relationship. Texture and color found in ceramics, lush tropical trees used to shade hot days of South China and cooling water features are all designed using local materials that add to the true spirit found in the ancient sector of Donghuali. This $300 million commercial achievement of urbanization, demonstrates what modern metropolitan China can be: pedestrian streets full of quirks and life defined by aesthetics of our time and place.