Shanghai Suhe MixC World, China, Mixed-Use Architecture, Chinese Masterplan Building Complex Images, Architect
Suhe MixC World in Shanghai
28 Nov 2022
Location: Suzhou Creek, Shanghai, China
Design: Kokaistudios

Photos: Terrence Zhang
Shanghai Suhe MixC World, China
Shanghai Suhe MixC World | Kokaistudios’ New Urban Green Land Blends heritage, culture and retail

In 2016, Kokaistudios was invited to participate in a competition for an underground shopping mall in Suhe Creek Green land. Instead, the design opted to present a brand-new public space in the city: a riverside green land with cultural and leisure facilities, incorporating a subterranean commercial area. Property developer CRLand preferred Kokaistudios? vision for an ?urban valley,? the floor of which is a subterranean commercial space that merges into its green land surroundings through a series of stepped slopes.
Shanghai Suhe MixC World is located in 42,000 sqm of urban green land. According to the planning and design conditions, its above-ground buildings include the renovated and restored historical lilong group “Shenyu Li?, the only official Thean Hou Temple in downtown Shanghai.

The newly planned four-storey gateway building in the northeast corner of the site and a 42-storey tower designed by Foster+Partners, which is the tallest landmark in the area, they together define the eastern boundary of the green land. The new development plan for the Suhe Creek area represents a prospect of the l...