Bronze A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Goes to Suzhou Creek Waterfront and Campus Landscape by Minghua Xue and Lin Wang

The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Minghua Xue and Lin Wang for landscape planning and garden design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Suzhou Creek Waterfront and Campus Landscape by Minghua Xue and Lin Wang, designed for Shanghai AMJ architecture and urban planning Co., Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About Suzhou Creek Waterfront and Campus Landscape

Suzhou Creek is a waterfront and campus landscape design in Shanghai. The project covers about 93,600 square meters and includes about 900 meters of riverside frontage beside a university campus. Buildings that weakened the overall style were removed and the riverside area was widened. Steps were replaced by gentle slopes to remove height differences and enlarge the pedestrian space. Historical buildings and mature trees were retained. The former footpath and planting strip became a combined campus landscape, shared space and riverside promenade open to the public.

About Minghua Xue and Lin Wang

I am Laoxue. I am the Design Director of Shanghai AMJ Architectural Planning and Design Co., LTD, Curator of urban public art. I was involved in chair design Wusong industrial zone of industrial heritage protection and urban renewal strategy research, under the new normal town protection and renovation planning strategy and implementation strategy is sure to project, Lujiazui urban central area planning and implementation strategy research of urban renewal along with Shanghai market architecture planning and design projects, international cruise port in Shanghai urban design projects, the bund, Shanghai west railway station, and weeks Edge land urban design project and other urban renewal...

Award Record

Minghua Xue and Lin Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award

The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Typical entries include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. The awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/132637
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/132637
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!132637
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/312299
Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.amj-sh.com/h-nd-52.html?fromColId=109

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Suzhou Creek Waterfront and Campus Landscape
Function: Waterfront and Campus Landscape
Category: Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Sustainability
Colors: Dark Olive Green, Olive Drab, Dark Slate Gray and Yellow Green
Images: 5
Client: Shanghai AMJ architecture and urban planning Co., Ltd

The Recognition

Laureate: Minghua Xue and Lin Wang
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #132637

Credits

Team: Minghua Xue,, Lin Wang, and Xutan Wang, Coxiong Yang, Hewei Shen, Xueqian Ding, Dai Zhang, Tingguang Lan, Yi Qi, Na Zhou, Yifan Yao，Shengli Lu

Design Details

Unique Properties: Changning campus of East China University of political science and law is located in the east of Changning District, Shanghai and in the north of Yuyuan Road Historical and cultural style area. It is 900 meters along the riverside. It is a rare non industrialized area along the Suzhou River. It has unique characteristics and portal effect. The transformation and improvement of its riverside line will be of great significance to the construction of the whole area along the Suzhou River.
Inspiration: Born and prospered by water, Shanghai has realized the connection project of Suzhou River by the end of 2020. How to create a distinctive high-quality waterfront public space on the basis of connection and open the important node areas along the coast, including the section of East China University of political science and law, has become a key problem. Meanwhile, East China University of political science and law has important humanistic history and architectural art value.
Research: Our team deeply collected and combed the historical evolution, historical landscape characteristics and the development of spatial pattern of the East China University of political science and law. At the same time, we evaluated the historical buildings in memory from the aspects of completion year, historical style, architectural function and historical characteristics, and put forward the design concept of restoring the historical space pattern, opening the campus public landscape and preserving and protecting ancient and famous trees.
Challenge: Demolished the modern buildings with poor style and which has affected the overall landscape, and expanded riverside area. Eliminated steps, eliminated height difference through gentle slope, and greatly increase pedestrian space. On the premise that the structure of flood control wall remains unchanged, raise the height of riverside footpath and enhance the landscape vision. The flood control wall, ground and historical building facade shall be provided with signs to show the history and Humanities of Chinese politics.
Realization and Technology: The design concept is to shape East China University of political science and law, a "century old campus and the Pearl of the Su River", into the most open public space along the Su River, the most elegant historical style and the most beautiful campus landscape. The landscape goal is to create a unique landscape form of "courtyard in the garden, garden in the courtyard". By retaining and protecting the spatial pattern, historical buildings and landscape environment, the overall style of campus is taken as a part of the landscape along the Suzhou River to open the scenery to the public.
Operation and Interaction: The design fully excavates the existing resources. It combines the originally independent campus with the riverside footpath, and relies on the unique Chinese and western excellent historical buildings of the campus, so as to "highlight the architectural style of national treasures, optimize the riverside landscape quality; excavate the humanistic elements of the campus and activate the riverside humanistic space; ensure the safety of the campus interface and establish a security management system" With the three design concepts as the core, the riverside footpaths that were originally narrow, single landscape and lack of public service facilities were comprehensively combed and rearranged...
Project Duration and Location: The design of this project has began from March to May in 2021. The construction has lasted for 5 months, ended in September 2021.
Specifications: The Design area is about 93600㎡, including the length of the waterfront landscape is about 900m.
Keywords: Landscape Design, Waterfront Design, Shanghai, North Suzhou River,