By Damian Holmes
A new model of compact, environmentally enhanced urban design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high speed
rail corridors has won an international design competition with its
Beijing Bohai Innovation City master plan. The winning SOM plan
leverages the economic and lifestyle assets of the Beijing-Tianjin
corridor by centering the new environmentally friendly district along
the high-speed-rail line linking the national capital to the port city
of Tianjin. The city expansion will host 17.6 million square meters of
mixed-use development, with a focus on providing a premier headquarters
location for advanced industries in the dynamically growing Bohai Rim, a
region that already accounts for more than a quarter of China’s GDP.
With half the 1,473-hectare site allocated to open space and nature,
Beijing Bohai Innovation City builds upon SOM’s more than seven years of
sustainable, high-performance city design throughout the region – from
its award-winning green Beijing CBD expansion master plan to numerous
projects in Tianjin, including the rapidly rising Yujiapu Financial
District.
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