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Sports Boulevard, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architect: Coen + Partner
Developer: Sports Boulevard Foundation

Huafa Snow World, a 131ha sport and entertainment destination in destination that is seamlessly integrated with a 10-acre activated
Shenzhen, China, designed by architecture firm, 10 Design is slated to public park. Set to be the new lifestyle epicentre of Malaysia’s capital
open in 2025. The development is anchored by an 80,000sq m indoor ski city of Kuala Lumpur, The Exchange TRX will offer socially immersive
resort, currently expected to be the largest of its kind in the world when experiences encompassing events, entertainment, arts and culture,
it opens. Huafa Snow World will have a balance of retail, entertainment, sports and leisure and over 430 lifestyle, dining, concept stores and
commercial, hospitality, civic and cultural elements with the aim of new-to-market brands. Designed as ‘a lifestyle precinct in the park’,
creating a new and vibrant destination. The development will also include The Exchange TRX by developer Lendlease and architect Leonard
a JW Marriott Hotel with a range of facilities, including a ballroom with Design Architects sits at the heart of a 17-acre retail-led mixed-use
panoramic views of the ski slope. The design will revolve around the development located in Malaysia’s first international financial district.
theme of snow, with ceramic boards and aluminium panels representing The Exchange TRX is known as a lifestyle precinct that encompasses
glaciers and ice crystals. According to the studio, the development will retail, Malaysia’s first Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants that is connected
have an “urban green axis” stretching the site from north to south, to the TRX City Park, six premier residential towers, a low-rise large
providing public space with a connection to nature. The site will be floor plate campus-style office and a dedicated Mass Rapid Transport
divided into three main clusters – an entertainment area on the western (MRT) station. The entire development is expected to be completed
side, a culture and civic area that is integrated with the green axis and a in stages from 2023 –2027, with the retail component opened late
retail area designed to connect with the neighbouring buildings. last year.
Under construction by Sun Hung Kai Properties and with architecture Planning approval has been granted for Brookfield Riverside – a major
and design work from Lead8, ITC Shanghai is a high-profile, mixed-use mixed use new town centre, retail, leisure and housing development
destination being developed within the well-known Xujiahui district. for the Borough of Broxbourne. The Borough of Broxbourne and
Currently one of the largest sites under development in Shanghai’s city Hertfordshire County Council, together with their development
centre, the mega integrated scheme combines four plots of land and partners Sovereign Centros and Peveril Securities, have received
will total 700,000sq m of development when completed this year. The planning approval for the €580M Brookfield Riverside development, part
project will include grade-A offices, a premium retail mall and a luxury of the wider Brookfield masterplan including a new Garden Village, at
hotel, all with direct access to the Xujiahui metro station where three Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Seen as a significant future economic generator
lines converge. The future-looking design of this neighbourhood-scale for the region, the new town centre and garden village will deliver the
scheme aims to seamlessly integrate into the already bustling shopping 335,000sq m mixed-use town centre development and 1,500 residential
and entertainment quarter. The design concept physically stitches dwellings including 1,250 homes and 250 apartments, as well as parking
the new development with the surrounding local sites to set a new for 2,000 vehicles. Brookfield Garden Village will also provide a primary
precedent for the district. school, neighbourhood centre and other council facilities needed in the
The Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) is a vibrant, experience-led lifestyle area. The development, which features architectural work from Lyons

Huafa Snow World, Shenzhen, China
Architect: 10 Design