The four sites of the development are divided by an intersection of a twelve-lane arterial highway and six-lane "local collector road." Unable to change the government's setbacks for these particular roads, our strategy was to extend the pedestrian fabric of the district into the form of the buildings as three dimensional paths that move through all four sites and span the river of cars.

Retail and commercial activities line the pedestrian paths and provide links to a hotel on the northeast site and retail mall on the southeast. The northwest corner houses a theatre and commercial complex at the ground levels with an office tower above. The southwest corner is commercial. The City of Tianjin, agreeing with our analysis of the district, has accepted the plan for an expanded pedestrian environment and is moving forward with the development.