Project by: Maria Fernanda Aceves, Mariela Alfaro, Enrique Casas, Carlos Mannarino, Abraham Tenenbaum
Dianshan Reserve is a luxury mixed-use lakefront development in Shanghai’s Qingpu District, the first new waterfront residential project on Dianshan Lake in over thirty years. The development offers a curated program of condominiums, courtyard villas, neighborhood retail, and a public island amenity, all designed in a contemporary Jiangnan architectural language that bridges traditional Chinese water-village heritage with modern living. The project serves a specific and underserved market: the tens of thousands of high-income technology professionals relocating to Huawei’s adjacent Qingpu R&D campus, the company’s largest global research facility. With virtually no competing new supply within the lake basin, a direct result of decades-long environmental protections that now also shield the project from future competition, Dianshan Reserve captures a rare alignment of structural demand, regulatory scarcity, and placemaking ambition. Recent policy reforms have further expanded the eligible buyer pool by easing purchase restrictions for non-local residents across Shanghai.
