Location: Sanya, China — Sanya Bay, Tianya District
Client / Brand: CTG Sanya Blue — China Tourism Group Investment
Category: Commercial — Sales & Experience Center / Spirit Building
Completed: December 2025
Design: Master planning by international design consortium
China Tourism Group didn't come to Sanya Bay to build another sales office. They came to build the room where people decide whether to buy into a 3.5-million-square-foot coastal development that sits ninety meters from the water — the last parcel of its kind on a shoreline where new permits have effectively stopped existing. The marketing experience center had to feel like the lobby of something that hadn't been finished yet. Not a showroom. A preview.
The floor sets the tone before anyone says a word. ML-OT025 — a crisp grid of white rectangular marble modules set into a dark gray terrazzo base — runs wall-to-wall across the entire space. From the entrance threshold, past the curved reception bar, under the lounge seating clusters, all the way to the architectural model at the far end. It's not a shy pattern. Each panel lays out clean white strips in precise parallel rows, separated by channels of cooler gray aggregate that read almost like drafting lines on an architect's desk. The effect is graphic without being loud. Geometric without feeling cold.
Step inside and the first thing you notice is how much light there is. Floor-to-ceiling glass wraps three sides of the main volume. Palm trees fill the frame. Beyond them, Sanya Bay. The natural light floods across the mosaic surface and catches the slight texture of the terrazzo base — the floor doesn't sit flat; it has subtle depth that shifts as the sun moves. In the morning it reads cooler, more silver-gray. By late afternoon the white modules glow warmer, picking up the amber light that comes off the water visible through the glass.
The curved bar counter anchors the middle of the room. Its cladding runs a gradient from deep teal to seafoam blue — a deliberate contrast to the monochrome ground beneath it. Staff stand behind it serving drinks while prospective buyers sit in low-slung navy velvet chairs, looking at digital screens or out at the palms. The floor holds all of this together. The grid pattern gives the open plan a sense of order that keeps the space from feeling like a furniture catalog spread. Every element — the bar, the seating, the model display, the map screen — sits within the same visual framework.
At the far end of the room, the architectural model rests on a dark polished stone plinth that rises directly from the mosaic floor. No transition strip, no border tile. The dark base color of the mosaic picks up exactly where the plinth leaves off. Above the model hangs a large-format digital display showing the master plan — site layout, unit distribution, coastal positioning. Visitors gather around it. They look down at the model, then up at the screen, then down at their feet. The floor is doing work here too.
From our side, this was a straightforward supply-and-deliver project with some specific technical requirements. The panels were produced in 600×1200mm format for most of the floor area, with custom-cut pieces for the zones around structural columns and the curved perimeter near the glass walls. All panels were pre-finished to a controlled matte sheen — enough reflectivity to catch daylight but not so much that it competes with the digital displays or creates glare under evening artificial lighting. The concrete composite construction handles the humidity and temperature swings of a tropical coastal environment better than natural stone would, with no risk of the efflorescence or salt-related degradation that can plague conventional tile in seaside applications.
The center opened in December 2025. Since then, it's become one of the more photographed sales interiors in Sanya's current development cycle — which, given how many are competing for attention along that stretch of coastline, says something about whether the material choice landed where it needed to.
