Park
Houtan Park
Houtan Park covers 140,000 square metres in Pudong's Zhoujiadu area. The landscape architects Turenscape designed it, completing it in 2010, and it stands as a notable built work of contemporary landscape architecture in Shanghai.
The story
Houtan Park spreads across roughly 140,000 square metres in Zhoujiadu, part of Shanghai's Pudong. Its layout is the work of the landscape architecture practice Turenscape, which completed the project in 2010. The park was conceived as a single designed landscape, so it holds particular interest for anyone curious about contemporary landscape architecture in China. Its size suits a long, unhurried walk rather than a quick stop. Its 2010 completion also makes it a relatively recent large green space in this part of Shanghai, one shaped from the outset by a professional landscape practice rather than assembled over time.