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Raffles City Chengdu

Inspired by the Yangtze River's three Gorges, Raffles City in Chengdu has five-levels of retail, office towers, apartments and a hotel.

Buchan prepared preliminary plans of the leasing layout targeting key brands for critical locations with the tenancy mix and malls planned around these anchors and divided into precincts to entice the customer to engage with all areas. A pallet of rich materials and textures gives each area a distinctive design aesthetic and the malls and spaces embody solid retail planning principles of sight lines, anchors and vertical volumes and targeted wayfinding signage to encourage pedestrian flow.

A feature of the development’s planning is luring the surrounding pedestrian thoroughfares into and over the site to come together in a pleasant open public plaza of water features, gardens and public art. Sun penetrates to the site, allowing daylight and breezes to access the central elevated public plaza. The plaza is the roof of the interconnecting retail podium and allows the site to be traversable to pedestrians and the community.

  • Discipline | Architecture, Interior Design
  • Sector | Retail
  • Region | Asia
  • Location | Chengdu, China
  • Client | CapitaLand China Holdings
The retail podium design was a collaboration between Buchan’s planners, interior and graphic designers.

Raffles City Chengdu

Raffles City Chengdu

Raffles City Chengdu

Raffles City Chengdu