The Project is about demolishing and reconstructing old residential communities into two plots respectively in the south and in the north with municipal road in the middle.

Design content of the Project is as follows (specific details see Competition Rules Document and Design Brief ):

According to Approval of Unit Planning of Haitao Garden Project, Yantian District and positioning of the Project, advanced design concepts shall be proposed to carry out the overall planning and design of the area, in cooperation with the completion of professional planning demonstrations and planning condition modifications. Design scheme for various types of individual buildings shall also be developed and specify the positioning and functional layout of the buildings, traffic organization both inside and outside the site, and the overall image of architectural skyline and building façade.

1.Applicants shall be independent legal entities registered legally at home and abroad (except the design firms established according to the Partnership Law of the People’s Republic of China), and there is no qualification restriction. Design consortia are encouraged.

2.Institutions with the same person in charge or different institutions with holding or management relations shall not participate in the competition at the same time.

3.To ensure diversity of creative design concepts and implementation of schemes, consortium members are encouraged to integrate and join hands with each other professionally. Urban design, architectural design, house products, traffic organization, public landscape, landscape garden, environment building, and commercial operation etc. can be comprehensively considered to give respective professional advantages to full play.

4.Consortium members should meet the following requirements:

①The consortium shall specify the leading unit/coordinating team, and the consortium shall consist of no more than 3 members;

② Members of the consortium shall not form other consortium with other units to participate in this competition or participate repeatedly in its own name;

③ The consortium members shall sign the legally effective Consortium Agreement which specifies the share of rights and interests, working content and workload of each party during competition and subsequent contract implementation process.

5.The coordinating team shall have experience in designing local residential projects in Shenzhen within 5 years (GFA≥100,000m²).

6.Individual application or individual combination will not be accepted.

7.Design firms (or consortiums) and chief designers with similar project experience in the following areas will be given priority: ① Experience in urban planning and architectural design in similar coastal areas, with the ability to control overall urban space design; ② Experience in large-scale urban renewal/ renovation projects, with practical experience and capabilities in urban, residential, and commercial comprehensive design; ③ Rich experience in designing high-end residential projects and well-known luxury residential projects; ④ Rich experience in designing public landscapes, environmental creation, and cultural projects (planning, curation, etc.).

The competition adopts an open application process, and is divided into the following three stages:

In order to guarantee the progress of the project development and construction, the Host reserves the right to award the architectural design contract to the 2nd place unit.

Schedule

*All times mentioned above are in Beijing Standard Time. The Host reserves the right of schedule change, if there is, the changed schedule will be informed by e-mail three days before Q&A and supplement deadline.

5 finalists entering the stage of scheme review will get bonus respectively after they submit design deliverables meeting the requirements of Design Brief: the winner will be awarded with 600,000 CNY(include tax), the 2^nd prize will be awarded with 500,000 CNY(include tax), the 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th prize will be respectively awarded with 300,000 CNY(include tax).

In principle, the winner will get the design contract of the Project and will not be awarded with bonus.

1.5 finalists entering the scheme review stage shall submit design quotation along with their design deliverables. The quotation shall be listed in different professions, and won’t be considered as ranking reference in the stage of scheme review.

2.The design quotation (design fee limit: 10 million CNY) will serve as the basis of result determination and business negotiation standard of the design contract.

3.If the design quotations submited by the finalists exceed design fee limit and the design unit don’t accept negotiated price, the application will be denied (note: if one of the two winning candidates’ design quotation exceeds the limit, its application will be refused and the 3rd prize unit will replace its order to be the winning candidate).

Information Release

1.The ultimate right to interpret for the competition rules is reserved to the Host. The interpretation language is subject to Chinese.

2.As for competition information, the content of formally released documents shall prevail.

3.Click Read More at the end of the article or scan the QR code below to fill in registration information, then the Organizer will send basic materials of the Pre-qualification Stage to design units who have successfully completed registration.