A FUTURE CHINA |
City of the future...
A new model of compact, environmentally enhanced urban design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high-speed rail corridors has won an international design competition with its Beijing Bohai Innovation City masterplan.
The winning plan leverages the economic and lifestyle assets of the Beijing- Tianjin corridor by centering the new environmentally-friendly district along the high-speed rail line linking the national capital to the port city of Tianjin. The city expansion will host 17.6 million square metres of mixed-use development, with a focus on providing a headquarters location for industries in the dynamically growing Bohai Rim, a region that already accounts for more than a quarter of China’s GDP.
“Beijing Bohai Innovation City establishes a new model of transit-oriented development at an unprecedented scale,” comments project chief designer Thomas Hussey of SOM’s Chicago urban planning studio. In a written statement, the client added: “SOM has designed a human and family-oriented mixed-use urban community within an environmentally-friendly framework to attract talented people and forward-thinking Chinese and international firms that want to position themselves in the same way.” The masterplan is designed with a
central business district organised around a high speed train station and five distinct neighborhoods offering housing, education, shopping, dining, and work destinations. While there are no hotel projects yet confirmed, development in this rising metropolis seems inevitable.
© SOM
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