GuangZhou, China - David Holm

COX Architecture's new project calls for a new financial CBD distinct from the existing traditional social and cultural CBD. Their current work captures the key points in major developments that utilize existing infrastructure, curiously overlooked in re-establishing a community grain with dense cities. Their winning design establishes a strong connection with the dynamic Pearl River and engages the new typology of a quay that will allow increased waterside development and pedestrian activity. The project is looking to establish urban controls for a new 4 million square metres of floor space and their strategy organises this around a central park, the new quay and a major transport hub that sits beneath the iconic sustainably driven high rise tower.