ARCHILAND WON THE 2023 TIANJIN URBAN PLANNING INDUSTRY EXCELLENT TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Recently, the 2023 Tianjin Urban Planning Outstanding Achievement Award was announced, and ARCHILAND has won 2 awards. Project "Culture Regeneration Urban Design of Central Axis in Jiaxing Ancient Town" won the Second Prize in the Urban Design Practice Category. Project of "Retracing YIDA Road in the New Era and Urban Design of Dainiantang Area" won the third prize in the urban planning preparation category.
Jiaxing Central Cultural Axis is a central axis spanning about 2.6km of the ancient city of Jiaxing, which is built from Jiaxing South Lake Trench Pagoda, along Fu Nan Street to Zicheng, and northward along the Juvenile Road to reach the Yuehe Historical Quarter. It aims to achieve the goal of protecting the poetic and picturesque Jiaxing, upgrading the vitality of the old city, and leading the cultural and fashionable wind direction, and to perfectly show the city's character of the ancient and modern and eclectic, and to retain the living samples of the traditional life of the old city, and to form a "walkable neighborhood, readable buildings and story-telling alleys". "walkable neighborhoods, readable buildings and storytelling lanes". The implementation of the urban renewal design of the central axis of Jiaxing Ancient City has enhanced the sense of residents' living experience, improved the overall image of the city and the economic value of the area, and formed the most wonderful style cluster display place in the central city of Jiaxing.
The project "Retracing Yi Da Road in the New Era and Urban Design of Dainiantang Area" is located in downtown Jiaxing. Through functional revitalisation, route sorting and theme enhancement, the project aims to achieve an upgraded, pedestrian-friendly and outdoor museum in the area. The design uses the red line as a clue to connect multiple scenes to create an immersive neighbourhood of colourful Jiaxing. The design implanted the " First National Congress of the Communist Party of China Road" as a cultural and landscape seed to improve the environment of the original historic district, display and disseminate the red culture, improve the economic vitality of the historic district and the tourism attraction of Jiaxing's red culture, and construct Jiaxing's new revolutionary mecca both materially and spiritually, building a spiritual monument of red memory.