时代中国设计研发中心：项目位于广州市东风中路，这里是传统的政商金融核心区域，距广州“越秀山—中山纪念堂—广州市政府—人民公园”的南北向中轴线仅1公里，周边重点地标和旧街区密集，是承载广州市城市形象和历史文脉最重要的区域。

基于场地区位，在最大化昭示时代地产中心大楼形象的基础上，设计团队希望改造后的场地空间融入旧城，延续城市文脉，为密集拥挤的老城中心提供积极的公共空间。针对上述不同的目标诉求，采用相对应的策略：设计减法策略：化繁为简，赋予场地当代城市美感； 边界模糊策略：开放边界，赋予前场空间公共属性；文脉延续策略：运用传统骑楼手法，延续城市文脉。

Times China Design Center：This project is located at Dongfeng Road, Guangzhou — the historic centre of economics and politics. It is only 1km from the central north–south axis of the city (Yuexiu Park — Sun Yat-sen — Memorial Hall — Guangzhou Municipal Government — People’s Park), which remains the most important area that bears the city image and historical context of Guangzhou.

In order to optimise the image of the Times Property Centre building, the team’s ambition was to intergrate the site space into the old city, build upon the urban context, and provide a positive public space for the densely and crowded location. In response to these different goals, we adopted the following strategies:1. Less is More: simplify and give the site a contemporary urban aesthetic;2. Blurring the boundary: open the boundary and give the front field space a public use;3. Context Development: Use traditional building design techniques to continue the context of the city.

▼延续文脉、模糊边界、重塑旧城公共空间Developing the context, blurring the boundary, and reshaping the public space of the 

设计减法策略 less is more

时代地产中心大楼建成于1999年，改造前场地环境冗杂，设施陈旧，整体美学呈现上世纪九十年代的特质，亟需提升。设计团队基于场地人车动线功能梳理，让场地美学服从功能，采用减法策略，将室外景观元素轻量化： 1. 移除繁复的模纹花坛，以简洁的黑色镜面椭形溢水池、灵动流线的喷泉、寓意新生的蛋形雕塑取而代之。澳洲华裔艺术家Lindy Lee定制艺术雕塑《星生·新生》，表达了对于天地生命的感悟，代表了非凡美妙的诞生，并展望着未来美好的成长，同时也隐喻自然生命周期的递进与新生。 2. 拆除场地原有各自孤立的8个大王椰树池，采用长曲线的座椅树池，将原来零碎的空间整合、重构、延展。由于地下车库位于广场之下，车库顶标高于市政人行道，所以设计巧妙地将座椅和树池结合，既消化了广场与人行道之间高差，也有效地将休憩空间与功能空间分开。 3. 拆除花样繁杂的装饰性铺地，通过山东白麻、福鼎黑两种色彩分明的石材及高差处理，清晰的划分出人行、车行通道和广场休闲空间。整体色彩与建筑、室内内外统一，简洁有力。

The Times Property Centre was completed in 1999, decorated with typical 1990s style. Prior to the renovation, the state of the site was disorganised and outdated. Based on the separation of pedestrian and vehicle, the design team aimed to make the aesthetic align with the function. The strategy was to simplify the landscape of the site, as follows:

1.Replace the original central planter with water feature, which is consist of a minimalistic fountain and a egg-shaped modern sculpture created by ethnic Chinese artist Lindy Lee. The sculpture, named THE EGG GIVES BIRTH TO AN EPOCH, suggests that even with a small thing like an egg; something superb, momentous and far-reaching can grow. The egg also symbolises the cyclical nature of time, birth and new life. 2.Integrate eight individual small tree planters into one, in order to reconstruct and extend the original fragmented space. As the top elevation of the underground garage was higher than the sidewalk, the tree planter was also used to even out the elevations, while separating the plaza from the sidewalk. 3.Replace the original decorative pavement patterns with only two colours to clearly divide the pedestrian, vehicle and the plaza spaces. The tone of the architecture, interior and exterior spaces are highly unified. The aesthetics is simple yet powerful.