Habitat Golden Dream Bay is built on the shores of Bohai Bay. The first stage of 2,500 apartments is now ready; the second stage of the project consists of a "street" of four-storey villas along the beach and two hundred-meter towers: their construction has just begun.
The residential complex is a two-tiered composition of 15-storey plates with a stepped silhouette, separated by extensive openings. Such permeability made it possible to provide each apartment with views of the Pacific Ocean and the city and to bring the project in accordance with local SNiPs, which require at least three hours of sunlight for a dwelling in this area when measured on its most scarce day - the winter solstice.
Moshe Safdie won the Habitat Golden Dream Bay competition in 2010 while developing his
the famous Habitat project for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair in a modern setting. From the extremely successful Canadian project in Qinhuangdao, the modular structure, green roof-terraces of almost every apartment, etc. have migrated. A similar scheme, based on Habitat'67 and also dedicated to "humanizing the mega-scale", can be found in Singapore at the Sky Habitat complex built by Safdie in 2015.
"Communal" streets-corridors unite the residents of Habitat Golden Dream Bay, which is usually not possible in multi-storey buildings. In addition, there are covered "heavenly passages" at the sixteenth floor. The necessary service facilities are located on 5,500 m2 of commercial space. The total area of the complex is about 446 thousand m2.
