苏州大悦城

Suzhou Joy City, developed under the Grand Joy Breeze product line, stands at 1999 Yuyao Road in Xiangcheng District, the new civic centre of Suzhou, beside a 21.7-square-kilometre central park. It was the first commercial project of Grandjoy Holdings in the Suzhou-Wuxi region and arrived as Xiangcheng shifted from an industrial district towards a liveable urban quarter. The whole development covers 330,000 square metres, of which 180,000 square metres is retail and about 100,000 square metres is leasable, with 3,000 parking spaces; it opened on 25 September 2021. The mix is weighted towards dining at roughly 40 per cent, with retail at 35 per cent and leisure and services making up the remainder. At opening about 40 per cent of brands were new to Suzhou or the region, including 123 first entries for northern Suzhou and 142 flagship or customised stores. Benoy, AECOM and GARDE designed a semi-open composition of park, street and box, with six partial upper levels over two basement levels and terraces folding into the interior. Its best-known architectural feature is a kinetic wind facade of 6,116 square metres carrying 68,000 wind-bell panels, the largest of its kind in China. Line 4 terminates at Longdaobang station, which connects directly to the mall, and the Middle Ring expressway lies just to the north.