Nanjing

NANJING XIAGUAN RIVERFRONT AREA CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Urban Design Studio
Partner In Charge: Philip Enquist
Design Director: Douglas Voigt
Urban Design Associate: Jae Min Lee
Urban Designer: Justin Lim, John Law, Paola Agguirre, Yan Zheng, Michael O›Neal, Javier Gil Vieco

Landscape Architect: Tom Leader @ Tom Leader Studio


The Xiaguan Riverfront is simultaneously located outside the historic wall of the city and behind the engineered system of levees that control flooding along the Yangzte River. As a result, the area has evolved in an organic way that has been limited by its lack of identity and isolation from the civic and social structure of Nanjing. The challenge is to re-imagine the degraded riverfront environment and overcome the constructed physical barriers.

This project is about connectivity ... to the river, to the city, to heritage and culture, to good life and prosperity for future generations.