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Nearly a year after opening its “Xiamen Bicycle Skyway,” DISSING+WEITLING Architecture has won another major infrastructure project in the Chinese city. The winning design, “Xiamen Footpaths,” is set to be a 21-kilometer network of paths and bridges creating a large-scale network connecting the surrounding nature and the budding metropolis of Xiamen.
Much like DISSING+WEITLING’s “Bicycle Snake” did for bicycles in Copenhagen, the “Xiamen Footpaths” will improve the traveling conditions and city experience for pedestrians in the bustling city of Xiamen.
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The footpaths take the city’s residents and visitors on a journey through the peaceful mountainside and vibrant cityscape of Xiamen. To address the contrast between the serenity of the natural environment and the hustle-and-bustle of the city, DISSING+WEITLING had to create a “coherent yet flexible design language” that would adapt to the different contexts.
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Steen Savery Trojaborg, partner and CEO at DISSING+WEITLING, said of the design, “It will be a fascinating experience to walk among the treetops and see the city and landscape unfold from a new perspective.”
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