Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Architectural symbolism permeates this visionary composition through multiple interpretive layers, beginning with the tower's vertical aspiration that traditionally encodes human ambition, transcendence, and collective achievement across civilizations from ancient ziggurats to medieval cathedrals to contemporary supertalls. The rhythmic horizontal bands interrupting the central spire's ascent may evoke the concept of rest within journey, suggesting waypoints or thresholds that acknowledge human scale within monumental enterprise, their warm copper tonality perhaps referencing alchemical transformation or the fusion of earthly material with elevated purpose. The organic platform form carries botanical or biomorphic associations, its leaf-like or cellular geometry suggesting synthesis between technological achievement and natural order, between human construction and ecological systems, potentially encoding contemporary values around environmental harmony and sustainable development. The centralized radial composition emanating from the illuminated pavilion activates archetypal center symbolism, the axis mundi or world tree concept appearing in traditions worldwide as the connecting point between realms, the place where community gathers and meaning concentrates. The diamond-shaped pavilion itself suggests crystalline perfection, clarity of purpose, and the transformation of raw material into precious form through applied intelligence and craft. Water surrounding the platform traditionally symbolizes purification, reflection, liminality, and the boundary between known and unknown, its presence here perhaps encoding the development as a threshold space between present conditions and imagined futures. The grouping of towers in asymmetrical arrangement avoids the static equilibrium of perfect symmetry, instead suggesting dynamic growth, organic development, and the vitality of systems in productive tension. The twilight atmospheric condition, hovering between day and night, encodes transitional states and liminal moments, appropriate for visionary architecture that imagines futures not yet realized but approaching.
Megalopolis X will be the new center in the heart of the greater bay area, close to the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The master plan integrates architecture with pedestrian networks, parks and public spaces. Above and below ground transportation networks are being planned by maximizing connectivity in the city. A below ground sustainable infrastructure network will provide systems for district cooling and automatic waste treatment in a seamless manner. The aim is to establish a creative master plan framework of how cities will be designed in the future.