“FishNest Island” by GVL Gossamer & Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute (TJUPDI), has been declared as one of two winners in an international competition jointly organized by the Hangzhou Yongjiang Development Leading Group Office & Hangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau. The regionally significant site encompasses 32km2 on the Southern fringe of Hangzhou City Center, at the junction of the region’s three major river systems — the Fuchun, Qiantang, and Puyang Rivers. Known as the “Gateway to the Funchun Mountains” and protected from dense urbanization by heritage planning, this once thriving ecosystem is now dominated by industry, villages, farmland, illegal aquaculture and forestry. The Masterplan
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