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Alila Wuzhen
Jiaxing, China · Alila · High Luxury
GOA Elephant Design drew a new Jiangnan water town from a dry plot: 126 white villa suites around man-made water lanes, opened in 2018 as Alila's third house in China, three kilometers east of Wuzhen's Xizha canals. There was no natural water on the site, so the architects pulled the southern wetland through the grounds in a windmill-shaped maze of canals. Wuzhen itself has kept its name and canal fabric since 872, on the UNESCO Grand Canal.
- 126 rooms
- Opened 2018
- Neighborhood: Wuzhen / Tongxiang district
- Architect: GOA Elephant Design
- Interiors: GOA Elephant Design
About Alila Wuzhen
- The 25,000-square-meter village was a single GOA commission covering architecture, interiors, and furniture for Yada International.
- Each suite wraps a private courtyard; the white-and-grey palette strips Jiangnan decoration down to water, wall, and bridge.
- Historic Wuzhen, on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, sits about three kilometers west of the hotel's own invented water town.
History
Alila Wuzhen opened in November 2018 (LATTE; architecture completed 2018 after a 2014 design start) on a site that had no natural water system. GOA Elephant Design, for client Yada International, extended the southern wetland into 3-to-5-meter water lanes on a windmill-shaped grid and built 126 villa-type suites totaling about 25,000 square meters. The hotel sits at 939 Ziye East Road, Tongxiang, Jiaxing, about three kilometers east of Wuzhen Xizha. Wuzhen has kept the same name, location, and canal fabric since 872 and sits on the UNESCO-listed Grand Canal.
The setting
Wuzhen is an ancient water town area in Jiaxing, known for its canal network and preserved historic settlement fabric. Hyatt markets the property as being in China’s last remaining ancient water town, which underscores the site’s heritage setting.
Amenities
- Water courtyards
- Luxury villa pavilions
- Jiangnan water-town setting
- World of Hyatt
- Indoor pool
- Fitness center
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