Dong Hu Park

Donghu Park was inspired by the Shanghai Governments strategy ‘Better City Better Life’ prior to the Shanghai World Expo of 2010. Innovation with this particular space comes simple; new urban and open space as an improvement of physical and psychological health, a strengthened neighborhood community within the heart of the former Shanghai French Concession, and a more attractive place to live and work. Private garden hotel villas with oversized iron gates were removed and the land was returned to the residents of this Shanghai neighborhood as a public pocket park. An interactive wooden Wisteria pergola, designed to weave around large existing Camphor and Maple trees narrates a botanical journey through some of China’s best known native flora of Rhododendron, Peony and native grasses.