TP-LINK Shenzhen LXD Headquarters reimagines the contemporary workplace as a landscape-led, vertically integrated ecological environment within a dense urban setting. Inspired by “From Coast to Mountain,” the project transforms the headquarters into a climbable green oasis where architecture, ecology, and corporate life are interwoven. More than an elevated garden, it proposes a new typology for...
TLS with SOM San Francisco. "From the site planning to the architectural design, the new consulate applies time-tested strategies for creating a hospitable environment within the desert climate. The state-of-the-art facility resonates with cultural traditions while serving the needs of today’s diplomatic community." Photos by "Dave Burk© SOM"...
Recently, TLS won the international competition for the Central Green Axis of Headquarters Economic Zone of Changzhou's "Two Lakes" Innovation Zone. TLS’s design is based on the concept of a "Growing Green Chain", creating a central axis that integrates with the Headquarters Economic Zone, linking the lake and the city, ecology and innovation, youth and...
Collaborating with SOM San Francisco, TLS created the Bayshore landscape and podium garden for this new Life Science project at Oyster Point in Brisbane, CA. The project has the good fortune to dramatically face San Francisco Bay with spectacular views from its perch. The three buildings front on a podium with a generous green gathering...
Starting from the cultural artifact of lanterns, the nature of bamboo, the pattern of the Jinsha Golden Sun Bird, and other characteristics of Sichuan Province, the installation explores the insights that Chinese culture brings to people’s lives. Key to this work is the "hollow" nature of bamboo and of lanterns, the coexistence of emptiness and...
In October 2022, the Shanghai Fengxian People’s Government, Shanghai Planning & Natural Resources Bureau, and Shanghai Greening Administration organized the International Consultation for Landscape Design of FengXian South Shanghai Central Park. Covering an area of approximately 422 hectares, TLS was invited to participate and presented the overall design scheme: Brocading Forest. The name Fengxian originates from...
Fanshan, located in Cangnan County, Wenzhou, near the border of Zhejiang and Fujian Province, has a rich history intertwined with alum mining. Named "World Alum Mining Town," Fanshan has been a hub of alum mining and smelting for the past six hundred years. However, with technological advancements and shifts in the industrial market, the traditional...
In September 2021, TLS was invited to participate in the landscape design solicitation for the public space on the South Bank of the Back of Pearl River in Guangzhou (Guangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation City Section). This project, organized by the Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, Panyu District Branch, Guangdong Association for...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Completed in 2017, this was a major densification of two existing apartment blocks to create an educational community. The project added 1000 new beds in two new “Gateway” towers by SOM San Francisco, 4 village style clusters, by Kevin Daly and Lorcan O’Herlihy, also, a new dining commons by...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]TLS is collaborating with SF Gensler Architects and Interior designers on the masterplan of NVIDIA’s new corporate headquarters located in Santa Clara, California. The geometric landscape is an extension of the building’s triangular faceted rooftop and centered on the idea of berming and bio-filtering water collected from the 250,000...