Name: Ningbo Eastern New Town
Location: Ningbo, China
Completion time: 2019
Total construction area: 261,365m2
Client: Ningbo Lingdong Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Architectural design: DDB ARCHITECTS SHANGHAI
Landscape design: SWA
Lighting design: Lighting Design Partnership International (China branch)
Scope of lighting design: Facade, Landscape
The Ningbo Eastern New Town (ENT) is located in the Yinzhou district of Ningbo. ENT is an Eastwards urban extension and transformation of Ningbo with a structure called “One Heart and Two Cores” where the old core of the city coexists with the new eastern core being the administrative, cultural, commercial and economical center of the same city, the lighting design scope of work include the plots CA-1\6\7, the administrative area and the main landscape area, while local mainstream urban lighting designs usually include massive usage of colorful and dynamic LED lights, LDPi convinced the customer to use a different approach by keeping a simple and more quiet lighting design while taking into consideration the human aspect of residential areas and let the lights exist for the city without showing off.
