Work is well underway on Heatherwick Studio's "tree-covered mountains" in Shanghai, as shown in this flyover movie filmed by a drone.
One thousand trees dot the terraced forms of Moganshan, a project designed by Thomas Heatherwick's London studio for a six-hectare site adjacent to Shanghai's main art district, M50.
A rendering of the project was first unveiled in December 2015, but this footage shot by architects Wahyu Pratomo and Kris Provoost reveals that the concrete structure of the 300,000 mixed-use development is already in place, with trees installed in its columnar planters.
Pratomo, who is based in the Netherlands, and Provoost, based in Shanghai, shot the video using a DJI Mavic Pro drone and published it on their YouTube channel #donotsettle. The pair have shot a number of architectural projects in Shanghai for the channel, including OMA's Lujiazui Harbour City Exhibition Centre and Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho building.
Heatherwick Studio first unveiled plans for the vast tree-covered development beside Shanghai's art district in December 2015
Heatherwick Studio describes Moganshan as a pair of "tree-covered mountains". Set to complete next year, it will include housing, offices, shops, hotel rooms and a school.
Blocks of varying heights will create a staggered roofline for the development, with the tallest sections forming the tip of a large wedge-shaped block at one end of the site.
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