Condé Nast Traveller featured Ennead's award-winning design for the Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve in a recent article about biophilic design in Shanghai.
"Are trees making Shanghai a smarter city?" explores the rising trend of green spaces in the city, and how they benefit the populace. Traveller spoke with Ennead Partner Thomas J Wong about the movement.
“Greener cities reconnect us to our innate attachment to other biological life, as well as act as a stark reminder that the future of all life relies on a better balance between the human construct and the natural world,” says Thomas J Wong of New York-based Ennead Architects, a designer with a role in Shanghai’s organic-design revolution. “Even though I already consider Shanghai a garden city, more nature in urban environments has enormous benefits in providing comfort, wellbeing and enjoyment for people, but also by better integrating the built environment with our planet’s ecosphere,” he says.
Much of Ennead Architects’ priorities revolve around increasing biodiversity, absorbing and filtering stormwater, and sucking out carbon from the air and storing it. Regenerating nature, they agree, is among the most powerful climate solutions worldwide – particularly in the face of unabated urban human activity.
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Learn more about the Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve here.