Shui On Foshan Donghuali, Foshan, China
Winner: Ellen Lou, AIA, Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP
Award: Merit Award for Urban Design and AIA Hong Kong Associate Award

With highrise development threatening Foshan’s Old Town, city officials sought ways to conserve the ancient area while creating a sustainable, modern central district able to meet the need for growth of a burgeoning city of 3.5 million. The need for private developments outside of the Old Town was recognized. These were to be built at a density able to support a new, transit-oriented, mixed-use downtown while also defraying the costs of preserving and restoring the vibrancy of the city’s historic core. The Foshan Plan aims at providing a new model for historic conservation and revitalization that can apply throughout China.

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