Marine City, The Shanghai Fish

As fish stories go, this one is a whopper: a mixed-use residential resort community that covers two square kilometers—all in the shape of a giant fish. Planned as a showcase project for Shanghai, the enormous aquatic icon landform known as “The Shanghai Fish” will become a center of the city’s luxurious marina lifestyle community—a project that will exemplify the theme of “Better City, Better Life.”

Designed to become a high-profile iconic landform like HHCP’s project The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, The Shanghai Fish’s signature architectural features are cleverly integrated with the earth-sculpted water form. The mixed-use development will include an interactive maritime museum, located in the “eye” of the fish; an elegant retail pier, which curves around to follow the contour of the fish’s “gill;” and an island of nightclubs and internationally themed seafood restaurants, situated on the “side fin.” A pair of lakeside marinas, occupying the “upper and lower fins,” will provide mooring slips accommodating over 300 boats. The Shanghai Fish will also offer a seasonal mix of visitor attractions including a spectacular nighttime musical fountain and laser show at the fish head lagoon.