Dalian BEST City - SWA Group
Dalian BEST City
Dalian BEST City is a tech office driven expansion of the coastal city of Dalian. The 10 km2 site spans from Lake Muchengyi to the Mt Sidawang ridge and East Hill, with a series of striking natural features that provide a “National Park” living and working environment. City development is generally proposed on flatter land,
Location Dalian, China Client Yida Group SWA Scope Planning and Urban Design Size 10 km2
with most wooded slopes and native vegetation incorporated into parks and forest reserves. The proposed development pattern creates two lakeoriented, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods – the East Lake and West Lake neighborhoods – for over
the site, to create the most attractive and memorable
100,000 people.
living and working environment. Reinforcing the City
SWA was commissioned to enhance placemaking of
pattern is a landscape concept that extends the site’s
the client’s approved Regulatory Plan, strengthening
National Park character by blending new plantings
design relationships between both the public (streets,
similar to the site’s existing vegetation with a handful
parks) and private (development parcels) realms and
of introduced reliable and landmark species.
SWA Group: www.swagroup.com
Dalian BEST City is a tech office driven expansion of the coastal city of Dalian. The 10 km2 site spans from Lake Muchengyi to the Mt Sidawang ridge and East Hill, with a series of striking natural features that provide a “National Park” living and working environment. City development is generally proposed on flatter land,
Location Dalian, China Client Yida Group SWA Scope Planning and Urban Design Size 10 km2
with most wooded slopes and native vegetation incorporated into parks and forest reserves. The proposed development pattern creates two lakeoriented, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods – the East Lake and West Lake neighborhoods – for over
the site, to create the most attractive and memorable
100,000 people.
living and working environment. Reinforcing the City
SWA was commissioned to enhance placemaking of
pattern is a landscape concept that extends the site’s
the client’s approved Regulatory Plan, strengthening
National Park character by blending new plantings
design relationships between both the public (streets,
similar to the site’s existing vegetation with a handful
parks) and private (development parcels) realms and
of introduced reliable and landmark species.
SWA Group: www.swagroup.com
