Jiaxing Ancient City Connecting South Lake International Concept Design Competition on Footbridge Crossing Huancheng River and Railway , Jiaxing / China

 

JIACHENG GROUP

Young Bird Plan, China

 

The bridge swings over the stream “with ease and power.” It does not just connect banks that are already there.

—<Poetry, Language, Thought>, Martin Heidegger

 

2022 Jiaxing Ancient City Connecting South Lake International Concept Design Competition on Footbridge Crossing Huancheng River and Railway, open to all of the global design agencies and professional designers groups, is an international design competition with focus on concept design for the footbridge crossing Huangcheng River and Shanghai-Kunming Railway that aims to connect Jiaxing’s historic town with South Lake.

 

The Competition, initiated by Jiaxing City Urban Investment Development Group Co., Ltd. and Young Bird Plan, an international design competition platform, aims at collecting various design ideas through the global designers participating in the Competition whose fields include architecture, landscape, bridge, art, etc. Abundant possibilities will be created for the slow traffic system connecting Jiaxing’s historic town with South Lake. It will create influential urban events and hot academic topics as well.

 

The construction of the footbridge crossing Huancheng River and Shanghai-Kunming Railway will improve the city quality of Jiaxing Downtown Area, enhance the image of the ancient city central cultural axis, and provide a landscape node for Jiaxing Section of The Grand Canal with pedestrian, sightseeing, travel, view appreciation and connection functions. It will not only respond to the characteristics of the ancient city and its surroundings, but also integrate modernity and adapt to changes in the future.

 

This Competition is open to all design agencies with related design practice domestically and worldwide (qualification of independent legal person or organizations with the ability of bearing civil liability independently). Registration by a consortium is accepted due to the win-win result and the mutual strengths complementing. The member quantity of the consortium shall not exceed 2. Each party of the consortium shall not participate in this Competition in its own name， nor does it form another consortium with other design agency.

 

2022/03/07 - Call for entries

2022/05/10 - Submission deadline

2022/05/10 - Registration deadline

2022/05/24 - Release of shortlisted winners

2022/05/31 - Release of Top 30

2022/06/22 - Release of Top 3

2022/07/08 - Release of Champion

 

- Champion

1 winner; A prize of RMB 600,000 (pre-tax) + Certificate of Honor

 

- Top 2

1 winner; A prize of RMB 400,000 (pre-tax) + Certificate of Honor

 

- Top 3

1 winner; A prize of RMB 250,000 (pre-tax) + Certificate of Honor

 

- Top 30

27 winners; Certificate of Top30 Honor

 

- Shortlists

Certificate of Shortlist Honor

 

*The prize money will be paid directly by Jiaxing City Urban Investment Development Group Co., Ltd. to the award-winning design agency. The design agency shall issue the invoice accordingly.