Miracle Residential Twin Towers Guangdong housing project by Zaha Hadid Architects, ZHA Chinese architecture
MIRACLE residential twin towers in Foshan, China
11 November 2025
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Foshan, China
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Photos: SHANR, enjoyphoto studio and Zaha Hadid Architects
Miracle Residential Twin Towers, China
Rising along the riverside in Foshan’s Nanhai District, MIRACLE redefines the city skyline with a bold architectural statement. As ZHA’s first residential project in China, the twin towers—linked by a sculptural sky bridge—form a fluid, futuristic silhouette across the urban horizon. Situated where city meets nature, the project echoes the openness and inclusivity of Lingnan culture through an avant-garde architectural expression, offering a new vision of future living rooted in local identity.
Drawing on ZHA’s iconic architectural language, ENJOYDESIGN conceives the community’s entrance lobby through the lens of “fluid spatial energy.” Inspired by the natural rhythms of water, organic curves merge seamlessly with structural clarity, creating spaces that balance rationality and emotion, global aesthetics and regional context. Here, architecture, landscape, and interior interweave into a cohesive, immersive narrative.
Fluid Form—A Living Dialogue Between City and Nature
The entrance captures fluidity in its purest form. The layered canopy extends outward like an urban sculpture, echoing the gentle ripples of water and conjuring a scene of “architecture immersed in water.” Stainless-steel curves flow smoothly into the interior, with mirrored surfaces tracing the shifting interplay of light and shadow. Here, a dialogue between building, nature, and city gently unfolds.
The entrance seating draws inspiration from the fluidity of water, its sculptural curves forming an artistic gesture that resonates with the winding paths, lush greenery, and textured stone. As residents and visitors stroll through the meandering landscape, the boundaries between urban and natural realms dissolve, imbuing the outdoor community space with interactive vitality.
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The interior continues the architecture’s fluid rhythm, with curves sweeping across ceilings, walls, and floors. Light and shadow traverse the soaring 8.2-meter-high lobby, animating its visual depth. Materials and forms echo one another, forging seamless continuity between architecture, landscape, and interior. With every step, the space unfolds fluidly, composing a dialogue of scale, light, and spatial tension.
Community Art Gallery—Where Art and Everyday Life Converge
The lobby is envisioned as a “community art gallery,” where tea room, reading lounge, and art displays intertwine, fostering interaction and weaving art seamlessly into everyday life.
Black stone flooring creates a tranquil, reflective “waterscape,” with delicately sculpted “ripples” evoking the soft shimmer of water stirred by the breeze. White sculptural accents punctuate the scene, conjuring a poetic vision of “mountains reflected on water.” Within this minimalist composition, natural rhythms and artistic warmth quietly emerge.
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A curved sofa stretches gracefully across the stone floor, its fluid form echoing the imagery of water. Gently undulating under shifting light, it evokes the sensation of floating on water. Through this continuity of form and materiality, the boundary between furniture and floor dissolves, and the space unfolds as a seamless, softly flowing whole.
The “Mirage Wall”, crafted from polished stainless steel, mirrors its surroundings while subtly refracting light—revealing a nuanced interplay of reality and illusion. As viewing angle and time shift, it generates dynamic visual experiences, enriching the space with a sense of openness and extension.
In the tea room, rippled wall textures extend the language of curves, complemented by a tea table sculpted from a single block of Calacatta marble. The reading lounge unfolds through flowing lines, where light and material weave a serene, airy, and composed spatial ambiance.
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The design goes beyond functionality, creating a spiritual place where art is woven into daily rituals such as tea drinking, reading, and interaction. It strikes a balance between a sense of ritual and warmth, creating a lifestyle aesthetic unique to the project. Here, homecoming becomes a journey of art exploration, and everyday life a nourishment of spirit.
The elevator hall evokes a sense of spatial depth through continuous arches. Sweeping metal curves, complemented by touches of greenery and standalone seating installations, imbue the space with natural rhythms and a futuristic aesthetic.
Technology and Materiality—Balance of Precision and Poetry
ENJOYDESIGN worked with HORNET STEEL ART, employing digital modeling, CNC carving, and GRG techniques to bring ZHA’s fluid architectural language to life. Flowing curves compose a spatial rhythm where technical precision meets emotional resonance. Through meticulous craftsmanship, the outdoor waterscape seamlessly connects with the arched entryway and stone flooring, extending deep into the interior and echoing the digital waterfall landscape—reinforcing the fluid interplay between architecture and nature.
The architecture’s facade, fabricated and installed by HORNET STEEL ART, is clad in 3mm-thick stainless steel panels—the same material used in Apple’s flagship stores. Fluid curves engage in a subtle dialogue with surrounding greenery and waterscape. Refined through precision fabrication, the facade conveys sleek modernity while harmonizing with the natural setting, creating a rational and nuanced spatial atmosphere.
Diamond patterns conceal the joints of the double-curved metal surfaces, preserving the purity and continuity of the curved structure. The interplay of metallic luster and flowing curves generates a rhythmic order—highlighting a rational aesthetic while softening the atmosphere amid shifting light and shadow.
CNC technology underpins the design, ensuring precise alignment between the diamond-patterned textures and panel joints. This technical precision enables a coherent expression of surface detailing and spatial form.
In the elevator hall, a full-height metal backdrop wall sculpted through CNC techniques reveals intricate textures with rhythmic clarity. The combination of mirrored and metal finishes evokes refined modernity, while the meticulous detailing lends the space a sense of openness and layered visual depth.
Here, technology becomes an extension of art. The “spirit of water” is rendered tangible, orchestrating harmonious resonance between precision and poetry.
Based on ZHA’s fluid architectural language, ENJOYDESIGN created a unified narrative across architecture, landscape, and interior. The community lobby not only fulfills the functional and aesthetic expectations of high-end living, but also expresses the rhythm of life through spatial fluidity—inviting residents to experience the subtle passage of time in everyday moments, whether returning home, reading, enjoying tea, gathering with friends, or appreciating art.
In this project, ZHA’s signature fluidity forms the structural framework; craftsmanship and materiality define its texture; and community art gives it soul. It is both a riverside landmark of art and a lifestyle statement—a place where urban clamor softens into serenity, the mind finds calm, and modern living coexists with artistic spirit.
Fluidity is not merely a formal gesture—it is a metaphor for time and life. Space, likewise, is more than architecture; it is an extension of emotion, memory, and everyday life. At MIRACLE, rational technology and emotional experience are subtly balanced. Here, modern living and artistic spirit converge, defining a future lifestyle imbued with tactile warmth and poetic resonance.
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Opus One Sales Centre, Foshan, China – Building Information
Architectural Design: Zaha Hadid Architects (Studio Beijing) – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/, Shanghai United Design Group Co., Ltd.
Project Name: MIRACLE, Foshan
Location: Foshan, Guangdong
Area: 863 sqm
Completion: September 2025
Client: Poly South China Holdings Co., Ltd.
Interior Design/Soft Furnishings: ENJOYDESIGN
Landscape Design: L&A Group (Guangzhou Branch)
Special Thanks To: Guangzhou HORNET STEEL ART Co., Ltd.
Photos: SHANR, enjoyphoto studio
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