The new Marina at Keppel Cove is located in Zhongshan, in the Guandong Province of China and is situated on the banks of the River Xi.
The 50,000 sqm masterplan for the project comprises a marina with direct access to the Xi River, a service building, high-end residential villas and the supporting infrastructure, such as the CIQP building, a bridge, roads and surrounding external dykes.
Keppel Cove Marina is the first and only marina with a private port of immigration in all of China.
Location: Shenwanzhen, Prefecture Zhongshan, Guangdong province, China
Photography: Ben van Berkel, Hannes Pfau
Client: Sunsea Yacht Club (Zhongshan) Co.,Ltd (owned by Keppel Land China until 2017 then Logan Properties)
Project Team: Gordana Jakimovska, Joerg Lonkwitz, Adriana Rodriguez Ossio, Alexander Schramm, Alice Yi-Ting Chiu, Iris Pastor, Caroline Filice Smith, Jean Chaussavoine, Jun Wang, Irina Bogdan, Leo Xinyu Li, Gilles Greis, Alexander Meyers, Sam Jia Jun Ren, Tamim Salah EI Negm, Evan Jon Shieh, Rafael Carbonero Vicario.
Team Members in different Project Phases: Alan Chin-Che Hung, Fernie Lai, Maya Alam, Cristina Gimenez, Juergen Heinzel, Yeojoon Yoon, Yu-Chen Liu, Dan Luo, Edwin Hang Jiang, Yichi ZHANG, Fabian Alejandr Mazzola, Daniele De Benedictis, Yuwei Wang, Alberto Martinez Garcia, Huaiming Liao, Ana patricia Castaingts Gomez, Oliver Loesser, Craig Yan, Guomin Lin, Nathan Melenbrink, Duran Yuan Zhai, Margaret Juien-Hwang, Cecilia Hui, Earn Lee Chern, Lukas Allner, Justin Tao Cheng, Severin Ignaz Tuerk, Yuwei Wang
The project is located in Seven Star Yacht Club – China’s most beautiful dock – in Dapeng Peninsula, Shenzhen. It has China’s natural semi-concave harbor, and it is the main shooting site of movie The Mermaid. The owner’s original thought was to build a sailing classroom for teenagers. However, when the designer came to this place – a peaceful and warm site that is far away from busy streets and facing the vast sea – he got another idea; the Seven Star Yufeng Club was thus born. It is a private club where you could listen to the sea, a professional school where you could learn about sea, and it has a single-story apartment with a full view of the sea.
Home is a carrier of our lives and personality, recording the inner minds and feelings. Ink House is a residence of a calligrapher, implying the cultural complex of Chinese calligraphy and adhering to the spiritual realm of nourishing heart by art.
Designers create the space combined with human behavior model, paying special attention to the owner’s living habits and hobbies. The overall layout has a calm and concise tone which is set by ink painting with proper depth of color; the necessary decoration of clear and simple lines matches light and rounded interior design, achieving “extremes meet” effect of hardness and softness. When implemented in the specific design of details, the ink atmosphere is created through items as art painting, light gray natural stone floor, ink-dot-like natural stone wall and customized ink carpet, adding an artistic and human feelings to the rational space form. All in all, the overall design is bold and hard, while the details are fine and soft, showing the pure state of mind.
The design objective in creating this Shantou Park Lane Manor III was inspired by British style, mixing modern and metropolis design, combining Asian-inspired art with contemporary design to create a truly unique and elegant space.
The project is comprised of an open floor plan including a spacious living room, dining room and bar area, master suite, guest suite, two children’s rooms and a large outdoor space.
Project Team: Li Yizhong, Fan Yihua, Xiong Can, Yu Xia, Ye Zenghui, Xiao Yikun, Hu Peng
Service: Interior Design and Consulting Service
Materials: Brown Marble, Grey Stone, Elegant Brown Marble, White Galaxy Marble, Masa Grey Marble, Snow White Marble, Wallcloth, Leather and Hard Fabric, Wallcloth and Hard Fabric, Wooden Flooring, Wood Finish, Baking Varnish Glass, Black Mirror, Copper Wire Drawing of Stainless Steel and Dark Wire Drawing of Stainless Steel
In 2014, we were required to design a villa located at Shenzhen Bay in Nanshan district, Guangdong Province, China. Client Mr. Xu is a Teochew, who is from Chaoshan Teoswa where is the linguistic and cultural region in the east of Guangdong, China that is developing into a single metropolis. As we know, most Teochew people like design in malacosoma rich, bronze color and other heavy fine wood carvings, decorated in a warm atmosphere, which might not incompatible with our philosophy. Even more, Mr. Xu had already have one design plan which was being under pre-construction. He complaint that he was not that satisfied with that previous design. At the beginning, we were worried that he might not that into our design, but he indicated ‘modern’ was actually what he was looking for.