In a four-block site in Tianjin, we had an opportunity to address the problems posed by increasingly wider roadways and with deep setbacks that predominate contemporary Chinese city development. The intersection of a twelve-lane arterial highway and six-lane "local collector road" defines the four sites of the development. Our strategy extended the District's pedestrian fabric into the form of the buildings as three-dimensional paths that move through all four sites spanning the river of cars.

Retail and commercial activities line the pedestrian paths and provide links to a hotel on the northeast site and retail mall on the southeast. The northwest corner houses a theatre and commercial complex at the ground levels with an office tower above. The southwest corner is commercial.

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