urban design

Le Meridien Hotel is located in an urban intersection of Zhengzhou City, China. It is a small-scale renovation project with around 6,000 SQM of landscape area in the front of an existing five-star hotel completed in 2013 by Neri & Hu. The client’s brief is looking for a stunning hotel frontage landscape to improve the overall appearance as well as resolve the ground parking spaces and vehicular movement at the same time. With the location that is located in a quite densely populated area we set to achieve a landscape that is interactive, imaginative, and artistically crafted to become the new landmark for this neighborhood.

We were awarded the project as part of an invited EOI by Blacktown City Council. The brief called for a robust cricket club and amenities building that could also serve the park and broader community. Our budget was tight, the process protracted and siting options were limited due to stormwater and sewer pipes. Functions were distributed between two adjacent pavilions, the larger housing a function room, canteen and toilets and the smaller housing ‘home’ and ‘away’ change rooms and storage. The pavilions sit side by side, addressing the oval and define an in-between space.

This is a project selected in the tourist base facility proposal that Nakagawa City called for the purpose of sightseeing promotion in September 2016 as part of the development project around the Gokayama dam lake that was completed in 2018.

Leading urban design and architecture practice Farrells’ One Excellence development, in the heart of Shenzhen’s new Qianhai district and China’s Greater Bay Area, totals 757,000m² and sets a global precedent for future mixed-use, high-density urbanism – with social and green space at its heart.