Nikken Sekkei Shows Off Garden Design at “Masterpiece Garden” Exhibit in Guangzhou
(Guangzhou, China) – Nikken Sekkei showed off its garden design prowess at the “Masterpiece Garden” display at the Greening and Beautification Achievement Exhibition and 32nd Guangzhou Garden Expo (Autumn Edition), which opened on Oct. 30 and runs through Dec. 15. The exhibit is a prelude to this year’s National Games of the People's Republic of China, a festive series of contests scheduled for Nov. 9-21.
Centered on the theme “Blooming in the Bay Area: A Green and Beautiful Guangzhou,” the exhibition showcases Guangzhou's progress in greening and beautification through displays of international garden art, with the aim of advancing ecological civilization and cultural integration within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a zone that comprises the National Games’ three host cities. In all, the Expo features 38 specially designed gardens and 64 landscape spots.
Centered on the theme “Blooming in the Bay Area: A Green and Beautiful Guangzhou,” the exhibition showcases Guangzhou's progress in greening and beautification through displays of international garden art, with the aim of advancing ecological civilization and cultural integration within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a zone that comprises the National Games’ three host cities. In all, the Expo features 38 specially designed gardens and 64 landscape spots.
The specially created “Masterpiece Garden” display invited world-class design teams to create international garden artworks around the theme, “Vision and Soul.” Nikken Sekkei developed a spatial narrative in Guangzhou that explores time, city, and vitality along the city’s new central axis, riverside green belts, and Haixinsha area. The design won the 2025 Yangcheng Craftsman Cup Greening Skills Contest Outstanding Creativity Award, a special honor.
This time, under the theme, “Container of Time and Space,” the Nikken design team primarily used mirrored materials as a medium. By reflecting and reconfiguring urban landmarks and flower beds, an immersive experience space was constructed where visitors traversing the garden “transcend” time and space, feeling the inheritance of the city's memory. The multifaceted spatial composition draws inspiration from the Japanese traditional kiriko (hand-carved glassmaking) and the yarai (diagonal intersecting cut pattern). The combination of mirrors with spiral plant arrangements expresses a spatial order where reality and illusion intertwine.
Mirrored surfaces soften boundaries, while flowerbed pathways connect spaces, ultimately guiding visitors toward a circular structure that symbolizes kiriko. Flowers cascade down entire walls like waterfalls, powerfully expressing the vitality of both the blooms and the city of Guangzhou itself.
Mirrored surfaces soften boundaries, while flowerbed pathways connect spaces, ultimately guiding visitors toward a circular structure that symbolizes kiriko. Flowers cascade down entire walls like waterfalls, powerfully expressing the vitality of both the blooms and the city of Guangzhou itself.
The exhibition runs until December 15. All are invited to experience time, space, and vitality through this interactive journey woven by flowers and mirrors.
Photo credit: Nikken Sekkei
Exhibition Period: October 30 - December 15, 2025
Nikken Sekkei display location: Linjiang Linear Park, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China (50 meters west of the North Gate of Haixinsha Asian Games Park)
Photo credit: Nikken Sekkei
Exhibition Period: October 30 - December 15, 2025
Nikken Sekkei display location: Linjiang Linear Park, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China (50 meters west of the North Gate of Haixinsha Asian Games Park)