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A mountain? Multistorey car park? Both? Inside Shanghai's £225M summit
It’s got winding trails, a gushing waterfall, some 7,000 trees – and room inside for 1,500 cars. We explore the astonishing Twin Hills project, which isn’t even the city’s first manmade mountainscape
Photograph: China News Service/Getty ImagesProfessor Zhu Yufan, of Tsinghua University’s institute of landscape architecture in Beijing, was tasked with making the French architects’ plan feel a bit more Chinese. As one cynic put it: “The Shanghai party officials wanted to be able to see, from their homes, a mountain reflected in water, to ensure their health, wealth and prosperity.” Some have declared the project an absurd waste of money, a supposedly “green” initiative with a gigantic carbon footprint. Tall buildings expert Philip Oldfield, professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, reckons it would take around 155 years for these trees to offset the carbon emitted in the production of their planters.
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