Hangzhou Xixi Investment & Development Co., Ltd.: An International Tourism Complex Rooted in the Cultural Heritage of Xixi Waterways
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Xixi Paradise: An International Tourism Complex Rooted in the Cultural Rhythms of Xixi Water.
Located at the southeastern corner of Xixi National Wetland Park, Xixi Paradise blossoms within the poetic cultural heritage of Xixi’s waters. Its overall positioning is as an international tourism complex, featuring a cluster of urban leisure and resort conference hotels. With a “hotel cluster” at its core, Xixi Paradise integrates five hotels, four centers, two Yues, one museum, and one street into a single destination. Within this unique tourism space of Xixi, Xixi Paradise boasts a wide array of tourism functions and facilities, capable of meeting visitors’ diverse needs while offering a variety of tourism services.
Design Team
Xixi Paradise has invited five architectural masters—Arata Isozaki, David Chipperfield, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Mario Botta, and Steven Holl—to lead nearly 60 elite teams from both China and abroad in the design process. The project encompasses a diverse range of developments, including the China Wetland Museum, an international hotel cluster, the Qiyue City commercial complex, an international club, Yuezhu International Brand Apartments, Yuezhuang Ownership-Based Hotels, and large-scale tourism public service facilities—forming, together with Xixi National Wetland Park, a new platform for Hangzhou as an internationally renowned leisure and tourism city.
Tourism Complex
The emergence of Xixi Paradise was driven by Hangzhou’s move toward internationalized urban tourism, marking one of the inevitable trends in China’s urban complex development. As an internationally renowned tourist destination, Hangzhou sees tens of millions of visitors each year, creating an increasingly urgent demand for high‑standard, large‑scale public tourism service facilities. The overall concept of Xixi Paradise originated from the “supporting parking lot” idea within the Xixi Wetland Conservation Project, which later evolved into a “large-scale tourism public service center” combining hotels with parking facilities. Through feasibility analyses conducted by international hotel consulting firms and continuous refinement by the development team, the concept of a “hotel cluster” was constructively proposed—and subsequently developed into a “tourism complex” centered on a high‑end hotel cluster, seamlessly integrating the China Wetland Museum, an international club, the Xixi Paradise Commercial Street, hotel‑style apartments, ownership‑based hotels, and various tourism public service facilities: Xixi Paradise.
Geographic location
The “Xixi Paradise” project is located at the southeastern corner of Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park, at the intersection of Zijin Port Road and Tianmu Mountain Road. It is less than 5 kilometers from West Lake and approximately 7.5 kilometers from the city center (Wulin Square). The project covers an area of 26 hectares, with a total above‑ and below‑ground floor area of 300,000 square meters. With a total investment of around 3 billion RMB, it serves as the iconic architectural complex at the main entrance to Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park.