Baishizhou Phase IV
a mixed-use renewal of shenzhen's baishizhou urban village — a cluster of supertall towers up to 400 m, stitched into a multi-line transit hub along shennan avenue.
concept
baishizhou is shenzhen's largest urban village — a dense, informal fabric in the heart of nanshan, slated for renewal. phase iv reimagines a block of it as a vertical mixed-use district: a cluster of supertall towers rising up to 400 m over a retail podium, anchored to the city by three converging rail lines.
towers
four towers set the skyline — twin 400 m towers on shennan avenue read as the gateway, with a 300 m and a 261 m tower completing the group. each stacks a full city vertically: retail podium, office, international apartments, luxury apartments, and a hotel at the crown. as the elevator banks drop away with height, the freed-up core converts seamlessly into apartments.
views
the towers are tuned to their horizon. view-rose studies open each one toward shenzhen bay to the south and the tanglang mountains to the north; above 300 m the panorama widens to take in both.
ground
at grade, the design trades the superblock for a porous public realm — retail gardens, tree groves, water features, and drop-off gateways knit the towers back to the surrounding streets, with terraces stepping up to a second-level landscape and a pedestrian bridge to shennan avenue.
baishizhou phase iv · nanshan, shenzhen · towers to 400 m · designed at SOM.