Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest wins Chicago Athenaeum award

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Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest wins Chicago Athenaeum award

A proposed transformation of the east bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, has been awarded The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, International Architecture Award for Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture.To get more huangpu, you can visit shine news official website.
The HASSELL concept created an urban forest along the Huangpu River that would see a continuous woodland of two million trees planted – one tree for each of Shanghai’s two million children. This expansive landscape would have a significant impact on the city and its people. It would expand green space in the city centre by 25 per cent, improve air quality and energy efficiency, create new places to gather and support Shanghai’s aspiration to become a more sustainable, attractive and prosperous world city.
Since 2005, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have organized The International Architecture Awards to celebrate the best new buildings, landscape architecture, and planning projects designed and/or built by the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, and urban planners.
The awards give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business and corporate communities, as well as to the press and general public worldwide. They are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism from a global point of view.
HASSELL Principal, Jon Hazelwood said the award recognition highlights the important role that landscape architecture and urban design play in shaping thriving and liveable cities.
“The Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest project is a prime example of the impact that thoughtful urban design can have on a city, in particular a city with a clear goal to become more sustainable, like Shanghai. This award helps profile that intention by the client, but also the excellent work and design thinking done by the HASSELL team.” Jon said.
The project will feature among this year’s winners in “The City and the World” travelling exhibition, which opens at The Contemporary Space Athens, Greece on 28 September 2018.