{"id":434912,"date":"2026-05-06T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:54:21","slug":"the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434912\/","title":{"rendered":"the Happy Spot under the Light Rail \/ VIASCAPE design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1041042\/the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design\/69f24b4bc748940189fb9429-the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the Happy Spot under the Light Rail \/ VIASCAPE design - Interior Photography\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69f24b4bc748940189fb9429\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"541\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1041042\/the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design\/69f24b4bc748940189fb9429-the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design_39.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 541\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Shan Liang<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"69f24b3fc748940189fb9426\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1041042\/the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design\/69f24b3fc748940189fb9426-the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the Happy Spot under the Light Rail \/ VIASCAPE design - 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Beginning in the spring of 2022, our team commenced working on the comprehensive environmental improvement and renewal project for the surrounding Caoxi Rd. Metro Station area. The overall renewal plan had completed by July of the same year. The plan aims to establish a renewal framework through a holistic urban design approach, achieving functional transformation of a blighted area in Shanghai&#8217;s urban core through a phased, incremental implementation process, and realize overall regional revitalization by integrating spatial optimizations based on functional adjustments of the metro station&#8217;s internal space and its adjacent plots. At the end of 2023, &#8220;Caoxi Road Pocket Park&#8221;1 designed by our team was built as the first phase of the project. The second phase, &#8220;the Happy Spot under the Light Rail&#8221;, was designed by us in Dec 2023 and constructed by March 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Shan Liang + 20 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1041042\/the-happy-spot-under-the-light-rail-viascape-design Area Area of this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1122,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,5919,33036,5698],"class_list":["post-434912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-landscape-architecture","tag-park","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}