16 Winners from Across China to Receive 2006 BusinessWeek/Architectural Record China Awards

16 Winners from Across China to Receive 2006 BusinessWeek/Architectural Record China Awards

April 25, 2006

Inaugural Design Competition in China Shows How Good Design Is Good Business

    BEIJING, April 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The recipients
of the 2006 BusinessWeek/Architectural Record China Awards
will be honored on April 26 at the Global Construction
Summit in Beijing. Sixteen winners from across China will
be recognized, and their designs prove that good design can
help make companies more profitable, government agencies
more efficient and cultural organizations more popular.
Winners are:

    Best Public Projects

    * Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum, Chengdu,
Sichuan, for The Labour 
      Organization Of Xiangcai Securities. Designed by
Jiakun Architect & 
      Associates

    * Yuhu Elementary School and Community Center, Lijiang,
Yunnan, for Yuhu 
      Village.  Designed by Li Xiaodong Atelier

    * Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau, Shenzhen, Guangdong,
for Shenzhen Urban 
      Planning Bureau.  Designed by Urbanus

    Best Residential Projects

    * Jianwai SOHO, Beijing, for SOHO China Ltd.  Designed
by Riken Yamamoto & 
      Field Shop, C+A, and Mikan

    * Villa Shizilin, Beijing, for Antaeus Group.  Designed
by Atelier 
      Feichangjianzhu            

    * Longyang Residential Complex, Shanghai, for Shanghai
Kangwei Development 
      Co.  Designed by MADA s.p.a.m.

    * Zhujiajiao Cambridge Water Town, Shanghai, for
Shanghai Cambridge 
      (Group) Co. Designed by benwoodSTUDIO SHANGHAI

    Best Commercial Projects

    * Qingpu Private Enterprise Association Building,
Shanghai, for Qingpu 
      Branch of Shanghai Industry and Commerce
Administration Bureau.   
      Designed by Atelier Deshaus

    * Jianianhua Center, Chongqing, Sichuan, for Chongqing
Financial Street 
      Real Estate Co.  Designed by Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill 

    Best Planning Projects

    * Caohai North Shore Conceptual Master Plan, Kunming,
Yunnan, for Shui On 
      Land Ltd.  Designed by Sasaki Associates, Inc.

    * Qiaonan Village Historic Preservation Scheme,
QuanZhou, Fujian, for 
      Quanzhou Luojiang Real Estate Co.  Designed by EDAW
Ltd.

    Best Preservation Projects

    * Two to One House, Shanghai, for C. Tse.  Designed by
Chang Bene Design 
      Limited

    * Lijiang Ancient Town Conservation Plan and Trust,
Yunnan, for Lijiang 
      Ancient Town / UNESCO World Heritage Center. Designed
by TongJi 
      Shanghai University Department of Urban Design and
Planning, and Global 
      Heritage Fund 

    * Jianfu Palace Garden, Beijing, for The Palace Museum;
China Heritage 
      Fund.  Designed by The Palace Museum Historical
Architecture 
      Conservation Center, China Heritage Fund, TsAO &
McKOWN Architects, and 
      Pei Partnership Architects      

    Best Green Project

    * 2008 Beijing Olympic Green, Beijing, for Beijing
Municipal Commission of 
      Urban Planning.  Designed by Sasaki Associates, Inc.

    Best Client

    * Shui On Land

    "As our inaugural BusinessWeek/Architectural
Record China Awards show, a successful project is one where
good design and measurable results come together," said
Robert Ivy, FAIA, vice president, editorial director, and
editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. "All of the
winners embody a set of values in which design is seen as
an investment, not just an expense. And all of them show
the benefits of architects and clients working together to
rethink basic assumptions and explore new ways of solving
design challenges.  With China in the midst of an
unprecedented building boom, we feel that an awards program
that honors the best of this work will set a standard that
others will have to follow."

    To view the winning designs and for additional
information, please visit
http://www.archrecord.com/ar_china/default.asp. and
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/architecture/index.html
.  Stories about the winning projects are published in the
Spring issue of Architectural Record China edition.

    According to Joyce Barnathan, BusinessWeek's Executive
Editor, Global Franchise, "This competition
demonstrates China's prowess in architecture, design and
innovation. Some of the world's most important buildings
are now found in China."

    Since 1997, the BusinessWeek/Architectural Record
Awards have honored the achievement of important objectives
through good design and exceptional collaboration between
architects and clients around the world. Projects are
evaluated by a jury of distinguished architects, business
leaders and BusinessWeek/Architectural Record editors. The
China Awards will be issued every second year, in
conjunction with the bi-annual Global Construction Summit,
organized by McGraw-Hill Construction and China
International Contractors Association, in the hope that it
will become an important record of the best architecture
built in China and encourage clients to employ design as a
powerful tool in establishing their brand identities,
expressing their goals, and organizing their work forces. 

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