The International Urban Design Competition of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Innovation Cooperation Demonstration Zone Opens | Nansha District People’s Government of Guangzhou Cityのプレスリリース | 共同通信PRワイヤー

GUANGZHOU, China, July 14, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/–

On July 12th, the announcement of the International Urban Design Competition of

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Innovation Cooperation Demonstration Zone was

released by Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and

Nansha District People’s Government of Guangzhou City. The competition is aimed

at collecting forward-looking, innovative urban designs around the world, and

establishing the city image of Nansha as the southernmost sea-land portal of

Guangzhou.

The design area of the competition, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Innovation

Cooperation Demonstration Zone, is the intersection of the

Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao Science and Technology

Innovation Corridors. It is also the strategic hinge connecting the inner

circle development belt around the Greater Bay Area in the southern expansion

urban spatial development strategy of Guangzhou.

The scope of the competition is divided into two levels: overall conceptual

design and detailed design.

The scope of the overall conceptual design covers an area of about 71 square

kilometers. The content of entries should include: the vision and positioning

of the planning objectives; the industrial and functional planning; the

functional spatial layout for driving regional development in the future, which

is planned on the premise of creating a landscape pattern integrating sea,

river, field, city and wetland. The designs should fulfil the requirements of

peak carbon emission and green development; the optimization of the overall

urban feature, living environment, supporting services, ecological environment

and transportation.

The scope of the detailed design covers an area of about 8 square kilometers.

The detailed design requires to be based on the overall conceptual design and

should analyze its supporting conditions according to the functional

orientation of the detailed design range and the assumption of industrial space

demand. This part should include: functional format planning, land layout

optimization, land development intensity, vertical design, traffic

organization, public service facilities planning, open space, and urban style

control. At the same time, no less than one node should be selected for

deepening design.

The competition will finally select the first 6 design institutions as the

participating institutions and vote the three winning schemes from them. One

participating institution will be determined to win the right of integrating

and optimizing the competition results. The Institution can receive a total

bonus of RMB 2.6 million. The other two participating institutions of the

winning schemes can receive a bonus of RMB 1.6 million. The other three

participating institutions which don’t be voted as the winning schemes can

receive a bonus of RMB 1 million.

The registration time of the competition is from10:00 on July 13 to 17:00 on

August 3, 2021 (Beijing Time). For more details and the way of registration,

please check on the competition announcement.

The website of competition announcement: