Atkins is providing architecture and landscape design for this low rise 355 room, five-star business and resort hotel. It will be located on an island in a perfectly circular lake in Lin Gang new town, Shanghai.

Our international competition winning project will be the first completed building on a new island in an artificial lake and form the centrepiece of the new port city. The three dimensional design superimposes an ideal natural form of a five leafed lotus flower on the irregularly shaped island. Each of the ‘leaves’ contains either wings of hotel rooms or guest facilities. These leaf forms challenge the typical hotel layout plan by introducing atrium gardens, bringing natural light into each area.

• Architecture
• Landscape architecture

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