In the year 2000, the City of Nanning held a competition for the design of a gateway into the city, to be experienced after visitors had left the main freeway and passed through the adjacent tollgates. But none of the submitted designs were approved. However, six months later Denton Corker Marshall was commissioned with the task. Keen to promote the image of a ‘green’ city, Nanning Bureau of Planning wished to incorporate the concept of a flower into the gateway.
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