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The grand award winner 2021 of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design (HKIUD) Urban Design Awards was “Divercity – Nature-driven urbanization at Chishi river of Shenshan”. Divercity is the is the winning entry in the design competition ‘The International Consultation on the Planning and Design of Chishi Riverside, Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen Municipality’ held last year.

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The Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design (HKIUD) Urban Design Awards are held every two years to recognize urban design related projects with outstanding performance and contributions in promoting excellence in Urban Design. The awards are divided into Built Project, Urban Intervention, Plan / Concept and Research categories. In total 30 submissions were delivered for the Plan / Concept Category.

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Last year, the international competition, jointly organized by Shenzhen Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Management Committee of Shenshan Cooperation Zone, attracted 90 design companies, 37 consortium teams from 12 countries around the world to join.  In our proposal, we focused on exploring a nature-driven urbanization mode and dealing with the symbiotic development of high overlap of urban space, ecological space and cultural heritage space.

The design team of this winning project consists of NL Urban Solutions, Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Lingnan Landscape Co., Ltd (CH) and Plus 8 Consulting Limited (HK).

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