A master plan proposal transforming Shanghai’s Lujiazui CBD from a mono-functional financial enclave into a connected, 24-hour urban ecosystem for work, mobility, culture, leisure, and public life.
What if the CBD could work beyond office hours?
What if the CBD could become a living urban system, active during the day, generous at night, connected across levels, and open to more than one type of user?
This proposal for Lujiazui CBD challenges the conventional image of the financial district as a place of towers, traffic, and transactions. Instead, it imagines the CBD as a responsive urban platform where finance, public life, mobility, culture, landscape, and everyday rituals coexist.
The project does not add another iconic object to the skyline.
It works with the spaces in between.
Ground floors, rooftops, elevated links, parking areas, streets, setbacks, and leftover spaces are transformed into a continuous network of active urban interfaces. The CBD becomes less isolated, less rigid, and more capable of absorbing different rhythms of life.
From financial enclave to unique financial center, the project proposes a future where economic intensity is matched by civic generosity.
