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Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture by Shanxing Gao Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Shanxing Gao for urban planning and urban design
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COMO, Italy, April 15, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Urban Planning and Urban Design category for Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture by Shanxing Gao, designed for Gdf Ltd. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture
Pearl River Wenjiang Block B is an urban master plan for a mixed-use business district in Chengdu, China. The plan includes 14 high-rise office towers, 10 commercial pedestrian streets and street-front podiums of one to two floors. Diverse transport systems are combined to form a three-dimensional city. Open blocks, waterfront parks and art courtyards support a healthy and livable daily life. The high-rise facades use a window-wall system with aluminum frames and elevated planting, which provides shading without strong light reflection. The building area is 644,765 square meters.
About Shanxing Gao
Dr. Gao Shanxing has more than 20 years of architectural experience in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially in the field of commercial architecture. He is an experienced and passionate architect. Dr. Gao Shanxing has served as a principal designer or project leader for many different types of projects, including large complexes, shopping malls, office buildings, hotels, theaters, shows, snow resorts, etc. He is particularly good at dealing with complex and comprehensive projects including shopping malls, commercial buildings, hotels and residences. Prior to founding GDF, Dr.
Award Record
Shanxing Gao is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2023 - 2024 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' City Planning and Urban Design Award
The A' Urban Design Award is an international urban design competition recognizing good urban plans and designs by best urban planners and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to urban planning designers, urban architects, city planners and urban designers from all countries. Entries typically include masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts and urban renewal projects. Awarded urban plan designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/urban-planning
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/153324
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/153324
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!153324
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/286269
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture
- Function
- Urban Architecture
- Category
- Urban Planning and Urban Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gdf Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shanxing Gao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #153324
Credits
- Image Credits
- GDF LTD
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It is mainly configured with 14 high-rise office towers, 10 commercial pedestrian streets with 2-3 floors and 1-2 floors of podiums along the street. Integrate diverse transportation systems to create a three-dimensional city; strengthen the creation of open blocks, provide diverse living experiences for different groups of people, and create a healthy and livable lifestyle in open spaces, waterfront parks and art courtyards.
- Inspiration
- Introduce the new concept of "CAZ", reconstruct the spatial layout and industrial functions of local neighborhoods, and expand and extend the functions of the business district from the functional perspective. Based on green ecology, create a colorful and vibrant new urban form, and shape an urban classic that will never end. Fully promote the construction of Chengdu Wenjiang into a consumption center of the West City Capital that reflects high-quality development.
- Research
- Based on the opinions of customers, we are committed to improving the image of Wenjiang District, creating a characteristic urban area, and shaping an urban classic that will never end. The goal is to target urban consumer groups to create a new space for scene-oriented quiet experience, and overall position the third living space of Xicheng Metropolis citizens. Upgrade and reconstruct a new landmark of tens of billions of business districts, and become a place where people chase fashion and collide with trends and become the first choice for socializing.
- Challenge
- Optimize the urban industrial structure, enhance the unit land value, and enhance the popularity and energy level of the overall area. Diversified and mixed integrated resource settings have become the secret to the vitality of the development area. Various professional services rely on each other, assisting in the development of large-scale headquarters, small-scale technology innovation, and cultural and creative economic development; the shared configuration principle enhances the overlapping strength of mixed functions. Strengthen the building of open blocks and create a healthy and livable lifestyle for each other.
- Realization and Technology
- In order to shape the urban interface of the signal area, the high-rise buildings along the street adopt the window-wall system with the image of aluminum frame as the main part. The external aluminum frame combined with aerial greening forms an effective facade gray space, which has obvious shading effect and will not cause obvious light pollution.
- Operation and Interaction
- Introduce the new concept of "CAZ", reconstruct the spatial layout and industrial functions of local neighborhoods, and open a new business circle that integrates the business contents and dynamic life forms of five-star hotels, 5A grade-a office buildings, commercial complexes, financial streets, healthy communities, riverside-style commercial streets, etc. The whole "1km" axis of Park Square, the walking axis of CAZ in Zhujiang New Town and the waterfront axis of Jiang 'an reach coexist and prosper together, which naturally inherits the leisure consumption popularity of urban core, empowers the formation of urban sense and forms the "city cover" of Wenjiang.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started design in September 2018 in Chengdu in China, and wished to be finished in 2026.
- Specifications
- the project is with a building scale of 644,765 square meters and an area of 109,654 square meters
- Keywords
- vitality, three-dimensional city, open block, waterfront park, art, livable
