This international consultation includes two scopes: the overall urban design and core district urban design.

For overall urban design: The area is about 13.4 sqkm. It starts from Haixiu Road in the southwest and ends at Liuxian 3rd Road in the northeast. It is a strip area within a range of about 1 to 1.5 kilometers offset from both sides of Chuangye Road.

For core district urban design: The area is about 5.3 sqkm. It starts from Xinhu Road in the southwest and ends at Liuxian 3rd Road in the northeast. It is a strip area of about 500 meters offset from both sides of Chuangye Road, including some important public spaces such as Lingzhi Park, Xin'an Park, Xin'an Square, Xinzhen River and the Jiangangshan Industrial Park. This area also covers many old communities and factories that need to be renovated.

This international consultation will work on building an international, world-class and benchmark district in the bay area along Chuangye Road. The work will be based on goals of linking Qianhai district and Bao'an district, stitching and symbiosis of old and new urban areas, innovation and compounding of intelligent manufacturing and services, and multi-dimensional symbiosis of business. Thus, this international consultation includes the following four key tasks:

Commerce and industry planning: Explore the integration of modern service industry and intelligent manufacturing industry, study the direction of the commerce and industry development in the area, analyze the commercial business format, model, scale, etc., and put forward suggestions on business layout, space mode, operation, etc.

Arranging public spaces: Overall planning of public spaces in the area, optimizing the existing public space elements such as both sides of the Commercial Avenue, Xinzhen River, Xin'an Park, Lingzhi Park, Chuangye Interchange, and areas along the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway. The design for public spaces should combine with commercial planning to establish a high-quality environment.

Integration of old and new urban areas: Pay attention to the history, culture, residents and urban features of both old and new urban areas, promote the integration and coexistence of them to enhance the image of the city.

Optimization of transportation organization: Establish a comprehensive transportation system that matches the overall positioning and development scale, taking into account the convenient connections on both sides of National Highway 107. The areas closed to railway station should be developed as an integrated spaces both above and underground and combined with the commercial formats.

With above four aspects considered, applicants should put up specific design guidelines including guidelines for urban design, existing places redevelopment, planning implementation strategies.

1.Interested applicants must be independent legal entities or partnerships or other organizations. Individual or teams of individuals will not be accepted.

2.There are no requirements on qualification for registration. Any domestic and foreign institutions or consortium who are familiar with China's conditions, have comprehensive urban design research capabilities and practical experience, and have urban district-level business planning experience are encouraged to register.

3.The design team must be composed of professionals in urban planning and design, business planning, architecture and landscape design.

4.Registration by a consortium comprising no more than three members is allowed, provided that the leading party and the internal division of responsibilities are specified in a legally-binding consortium agreement. No member of a consortium is allowed to register twice either independently or by joining another consortium.

The International Consultation is open for registration, and will include two stages: "pre-qualification" and "design & evaluation".

For Pre-qualification stage: The credit document, related experience (design and planning for urban spaces, and business planning), abilities of team and concept proposal will be reviewed by the Pre-qualification Review Jury. Five non-ranking teams and two ranked teams on wait-list will be selected for next stage.

For design & evaluation stage: The proposal submitted by final-listed five teams will be reviewed and ranked by the Scheme Review Jury. There will be corresponding rewards for the winning teams.

Pre-registration

The official announcement of this international consultation will be released in early June. Interested teams are welcome to pre-register. Please scan the QR code below or visit the link below to fill in the pre-registration information.

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Reminder

The pre-registration form does not serve as a formal registration submission or a basis for formal registration. All the contents involved in the pre-announcement of the international consultation will be subject to the official announcement.