2025-08-27
Arup’s Qianwan Park Design Earns Prestigious Industry Accolades
Arup’s sustainable landscape design for Qianwan Park has garnered three prestigious awards: a Merit Award at the HKIUD GBA Urban Design Awards 2024, a Gold Award at the MUSE Design Awards, and Winner in Landscape Architecture at the Built Design Awards.
Located on the west Shekou Peninsula in Shenzhen, Qianwan Park spans 31.6 hectares, connecting Qianhai Bay to the west and the Dananshan mountains to the southeast, embodying a harmonious blend of urban life and natural beauty.
Leveraging Arup’s multidisciplinary expertise, the design blends Lingnan traditions into modern sustainable design. Qianwan Park establishes a highly efficient carbon sink, actively contributing to carbon mitigation. With Arup’s Total Carbon App, the team developed a clear roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, with annual plant sequestration projected to reach 900 tCO2e.
The project features a 3km riverfront with diverse elements and two landscape footbridges that enhance connectivity. With 71% green coverage, the park offers facilities for reactional, art, culture, education and dining. Its nature-based, species-focused approach aims to safeguard biodiversity and enhance ecological value. The project has also been shortlisted for the World Landscape Architecture Awards 2025 and the Asian Design Awards 2024.
“We’re incredibly honoured to be recognised by these accolades. The design for Qianwan Park embodies our commitment to nature-based solutions and features an innovative carbon-negative concept, creating a public space for people to appreciate the beauty and harmony of ecology and culture.”
- Ms Claudia YU, East Asia Nature Positive Design Leader, Arup
Located on the west Shekou Peninsula in Shenzhen, Qianwan Park spans 31.6 hectares, connecting Qianhai Bay to the west and the Dananshan mountains to the southeast, embodying a harmonious blend of urban life and natural beauty.
Leveraging Arup’s multidisciplinary expertise, the design blends Lingnan traditions into modern sustainable design. Qianwan Park establishes a highly efficient carbon sink, actively contributing to carbon mitigation. With Arup’s Total Carbon App, the team developed a clear roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, with annual plant sequestration projected to reach 900 tCO2e.
The project features a 3km riverfront with diverse elements and two landscape footbridges that enhance connectivity. With 71% green coverage, the park offers facilities for reactional, art, culture, education and dining. Its nature-based, species-focused approach aims to safeguard biodiversity and enhance ecological value. The project has also been shortlisted for the World Landscape Architecture Awards 2025 and the Asian Design Awards 2024.
“We’re incredibly honoured to be recognised by these accolades. The design for Qianwan Park embodies our commitment to nature-based solutions and features an innovative carbon-negative concept, creating a public space for people to appreciate the beauty and harmony of ecology and culture.”
- Ms Claudia YU, East Asia Nature Positive Design Leader, Arup
Project team celebrating with the client.
Qianwan Park features a 3km riverfront with diverse elements and two landscape footbridges that enhance connectivity.
Qianwan Park is in west Shekou Peninsula in Shenzhen.