Chinese urban park wins World's Best Landscape Award at World Architecture Festival Awards 2009
A Chinese park - The Adaption Palettes: Regenerative Landscape Design by Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute) of China, has won the World's Best Landscape Award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
The Regenerative Landscape Design of the twenty-two hectare park in the northern coastal city of Tianjin, transformed a former deserted shooting range used as a rubbish dump, into a low maintenance urban public park full of wilderness and vegetation. The intelligent use of waste material to organise a natural cleaning system means the vegetation needs no maintenance.
The presentation of the WAF Awards took place during global architecture summit the World Architecture Festival, which is being held at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) between 4th and 6th November.
The WAF Awards form the biggest architectural awards programme in the world and are designed to celebrate and showcase the work of the international architectural community. The WAF Awards are unique in that they involve shortlisted architects presenting their projects live to the public and a star studded international judging panel.
The Adaption Palettes: Regenerative Landscape Design was chosen by some of the world's most distinguished architects and renowned industry experts, beating off competition from a shortlist of 6 entries.
The judges praised the Regenerative Landscape Design for the huge and densely populated Chinese city as ' a good example for the reuse of a contaminated derelict urban site by cleaning up with a system of dry and wet ponds and a variety of different plant species and vegetation which control the pH-Balance to clean the soil and water bodies.'
Speaking at the WAF Awards Paul Finch, WAF Programme Director, said:"Yet again we received a huge response to these fiercely contested Awards, with 272 projects shortlisted from 67 different countries. The geographical range and quality of this year抯 designs were exceptionally high and offers a real insight into the current condition and diversity of global architecture. Our congratulations go to Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute) who thoroughly deserve to receive this accolade.'
This is the 2nd year the World Architecture Festival Awards have been presented. Last year抯 overall winner of World Building of the Year 2008 was Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, designed by Irish practice Grafton Architects.
The following category winners were also presented with WAF Awards 2009:
World Transport Building of the Year: Bras Basah Mass Rapid Transit Station in Singapore, designed by WOHA, Singapore
World Health Building of the Year: Teleton Tampico, Mexico, designed by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos of Mexico
World Sport Building of the Year: Berry Sports Hall in Berry, Australia, designed by Allen Jack & Cottier, Australia
World Production, Energy, & Recycling Building of the Year: Bodegas designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, United Kingdom
World Display Building of the Year: Cages for Macaws in the Palm Grove of Barcelona Zoo, Spain, designed by Battle & Roig Architects, Spain
World Civic and Community Building of the Year: Emergency Terminal Zagreb designed by Produkcija 004
World Culture Building of the Year: Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre designed by Peter Rich Architects
World Holiday Building of the Year: Restaurant Tusen designed by Murman Arkitekter
World Shopping Building of the Year: Havaianas designed by Isay Weinfeld
World House of the Year: Klein Bottle House designed by McBride Charles Ryan
World Housing Development of the Year: The Met designed by WOHA
World Learning Building of the Year: Pearl Academy of Fashion designed by Morphogenesis
World New & Old Building of the Year: TKTS Booth and the Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square designed by Choi Ropiha, Perkins Eastman and PKSB Architects
World Office Building of the Year: Unileverhaus designed by Behnisch Architekten
The Regenerative Landscape Design of the twenty-two hectare park in the northern coastal city of Tianjin, transformed a former deserted shooting range used as a rubbish dump, into a low maintenance urban public park full of wilderness and vegetation. The intelligent use of waste material to organise a natural cleaning system means the vegetation needs no maintenance.
The presentation of the WAF Awards took place during global architecture summit the World Architecture Festival, which is being held at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) between 4th and 6th November.
The WAF Awards form the biggest architectural awards programme in the world and are designed to celebrate and showcase the work of the international architectural community. The WAF Awards are unique in that they involve shortlisted architects presenting their projects live to the public and a star studded international judging panel.
The Adaption Palettes: Regenerative Landscape Design was chosen by some of the world's most distinguished architects and renowned industry experts, beating off competition from a shortlist of 6 entries.
The judges praised the Regenerative Landscape Design for the huge and densely populated Chinese city as ' a good example for the reuse of a contaminated derelict urban site by cleaning up with a system of dry and wet ponds and a variety of different plant species and vegetation which control the pH-Balance to clean the soil and water bodies.'
Speaking at the WAF Awards Paul Finch, WAF Programme Director, said:"Yet again we received a huge response to these fiercely contested Awards, with 272 projects shortlisted from 67 different countries. The geographical range and quality of this year抯 designs were exceptionally high and offers a real insight into the current condition and diversity of global architecture. Our congratulations go to Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute) who thoroughly deserve to receive this accolade.'
This is the 2nd year the World Architecture Festival Awards have been presented. Last year抯 overall winner of World Building of the Year 2008 was Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, designed by Irish practice Grafton Architects.
The following category winners were also presented with WAF Awards 2009:
World Transport Building of the Year: Bras Basah Mass Rapid Transit Station in Singapore, designed by WOHA, Singapore
World Health Building of the Year: Teleton Tampico, Mexico, designed by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos of Mexico
World Sport Building of the Year: Berry Sports Hall in Berry, Australia, designed by Allen Jack & Cottier, Australia
World Production, Energy, & Recycling Building of the Year: Bodegas designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, United Kingdom
World Display Building of the Year: Cages for Macaws in the Palm Grove of Barcelona Zoo, Spain, designed by Battle & Roig Architects, Spain
World Civic and Community Building of the Year: Emergency Terminal Zagreb designed by Produkcija 004
World Culture Building of the Year: Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre designed by Peter Rich Architects
World Holiday Building of the Year: Restaurant Tusen designed by Murman Arkitekter
World Shopping Building of the Year: Havaianas designed by Isay Weinfeld
World House of the Year: Klein Bottle House designed by McBride Charles Ryan
World Housing Development of the Year: The Met designed by WOHA
World Learning Building of the Year: Pearl Academy of Fashion designed by Morphogenesis
World New & Old Building of the Year: TKTS Booth and the Redevelopment of Father Duffy Square designed by Choi Ropiha, Perkins Eastman and PKSB Architects
World Office Building of the Year: Unileverhaus designed by Behnisch Architekten
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Notes to editors
1. Images of the winning buildings can be downloaded from this site:
Username: worldarchitecturefestival
Password: architect
Folder: Shortlist images 2009
2. For further press information on the World Architecture Festival Awards contact Joanna Reid or Tilly Shirlaw at FD on +44 (0) 7855 084 713 or +44 (0) 7979 856 056 or jo.reid@fd.com / tilly.shirlaw@fd.com
3. WAF Award categories include:
Completed buildings
Civic and community Housing Learning
Culture Landscaping New and old
Display Office Production
Health Shopping Sport
Holiday Transport House
New for 2009:
Interiors and fit out Future projects Structural Design
Offices Masterplanning Spans
Hotels and casinos Landscape Towers
Health small Infrastructure Metal
Health large Competition entries Concrete
Bars and restaurants Residential Timber
Culture and civic Commercial Glass
Retail small Cultural Tensile
Retail large Experimental projects Composites
Masonry
4. WAF Judges at November 2009 include:
Catherine Slessor UK Kim Herforth Nielsen Denmark
Charles Jencks UK David Dunster UK
Hanif Kara UK Justine Clarke Australia
Kengo Kuma Japan Kieran Long UK
Lorenzo Apicella UK Luis O'grady Argentina
Marcus Fairs UK Nabil Gholam Lebanon
Sir Peter Cook UK Suha Ozkan Turkey
Will Alsop UK Dennis Sharp UK
Andres Lepik USA Clifford Pearson USA
Odile Decq France Peter Kudryavstev Russia
Ewa P. Porebska Poland Vladimir Drogan Russia Sou Fujimoto Japan Morten Schmidt Denmark
Bill Hanway (EDAW) USA Teddy Cruz USA
Robert Schafer Germany William Menking USA
Professor Paul Walker New Zealand Bjarke Ingels Denmark
Andrew Chadwick UK Fernando Serapião Brazil
Shane O' toole Ireland Philippe Matters Belgium Michel Rojkind Mexico Dogan Hasol Turkey
Miquel Adria Mexico Nelda Roger Canada
Ronato Benedetti UK Mr Vladimir Plotkin Russia
Farshid Moussavi Iran Kate Goodwin UK
Mark Dytham Japan Jessica Rowson UK
Nicola Leonardi Italy Dan Hallemar Sweden
Rob Gregory UK Chris Johnson UK
Rafael Vinoly USA Roger Zogolovitch UK
Carlotta Zucchini Italy Matthias Sauerbruch Germany
Wolf Mangelsdorf Germany Simon Allford UK
Maria Aslam-Hyder Pakistan
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