China-Taiwan Master Plan for CBD / 10 Design

Nov 2011

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Urban Planning , 10 Design, China, Pingtan, Taiwan

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10 Design architects has recently been awarded a 93 ha Masterplan for a CBD in Pingtan, a New Cross-Strait District for China and It’s Trading Partner, Taiwan. Pingtan is planned as a new commercial hub to drive communication and commercial trade between China and Taiwan. Part of the competition included the design of a new Cross Straits Forum including theatre, convention, exhibition and auxiliary commercial and cultural facilities. More images and project description after the break.

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At the center of the CBD and Forum district is a newly created fresh water lake that conserves fresh water from run off through the urban grain. The masterplan caters for some 3.3 million sqm of urban development, while the Cross Straits Forum would be in the first phase of development.

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To reflect the aspiration of transparency and dialogue the buildings are formed by converging elements that combine with the landscape and waterfront to create a fluid and open series of public spaces that meld into the buildings themselves.

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Service traffic, roads and trams are integrated into a series of terraced landscape levels to minimize impact of car traffic on pedestrian circulation routes and to create free access from the central axial park canal through the lake towards the waterfront through a series of leisure and retail lined canals.

Architects: 10 Design
Location: Pingtan, China-Taiwan
Design Partner: Gordon Affleck
Architecture Team: Brian Fok, Francisco Fajardo, Frisly Colop Morales, Laura Rusconi Clerici, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Maciej Setniewski, Mike Kwok, Ryan Leong, Shane Dale
Landscape Team: Ewa Koter, Fabio Pang
Site Area: 93 hectare
GFA: 2,315,000 sqm
Function: China-Taiwan Cross Strait Forum Venue, Theatre, Convention Centre, Exhibition Centre, Auxiliary Commercial & Cultural Facilities, and 5-star Hotel

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Cite:
Furuto , Alison . "China-Taiwan Master Plan for CBD / 10 Design" 20 Nov 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 24 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/185417>

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Frank says:

What a beautiful plan in Taiwan.
I like it.
By the way,we are Taiwan,not China.
If you can change the title,we will thank you.

# November 20, 2011 at 13:34

simon says:

I think the site is at 平潭島,福建

# November 20, 2011 at 21:23

Jonathan Biddle says:

If you read the article you’ll see it is referring to Pingtan, China. They are proposing a cross-straight hub to drive trade. I don’t think they are using an anti-Taiwan title.

I lived in Taipei for eight years :)

# November 20, 2011 at 14:58

Lu Allen says:

Good~

# November 20, 2011 at 20:35

Location in Pingtan, China-Taiwan is Big mistake.Location in Pingtan, China,no taiwan.Please correction all.

# November 20, 2011 at 20:34

JJ says:

Well, the propose is quite good in a conceptual way. But if there is anything showing the link in between site and the proposing design in history way would be good.

Fail English above.

# November 20, 2011 at 23:27

saffarini africa says: