CURB Center Hosts Exhibition of Award-Winning Urban Design Projects in the Greater Bay Area at USJ
CURB Center Hosts Exhibition of Award-Winning Urban Design Projects in the Greater Bay Area at USJ
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The opening ceremony of the “Greater Bay Area Urban Design Awards 2022 Exhibition” will take place on September 28 at the USJ Kent Wong Gallery.
CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism is hosting the “Greater Bay Area Urban Design Awards 2022 Exhibition” at the University of Saint Joseph Macao (USJ). This exhibition showcases the award-winning works from the 2022 Competition, which demonstrate how excellent urban design solutions are closely related to life quality and how they can deliver cities with better health, sustainability and livability.
The competition was organised by The Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design with the support of the Greater Bay Area Urban Designer Alliance. As a founding member of the Alliance, CURB stands alongside esteemed organizations like the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, Guangzhou Urban Planning Association, Urban Planning Society of Shenzhen, and Zhuhai Planning Exploration and Design Industry Association.
The opening of the ” Greater Bay Area Urban Design Awards 2022 Exhibition” will take place on 28 September 2023, 18:00, at the Kent Wong Gallery GF in the Ilha Verde Campus of the University of Saint Joseph.
About The GBA Urban Design Awards
Following the tremendous success of the inaugural Greater Bay Area Urban Design Awards (“The GBA Urban Design Awards”) in 2020, The Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design (HKIUD) organised the GBA Urban Design Awards 2022 in September 2022 with the support of Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the other four founding member Institutes from the Greater Bay Area Urban Designer Alliance including CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism – Macau, Guangzhou Urban Planning Association, Urban Planning Society of Shenzhen and Zhuhai Planning Exploration and Design Industry Association.
The objective of the GBA Urban Design Awards is to elevate the overall urban design standard in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), and explore a mechanism for mutual recognition of professional qualifications in urban design in the GBA through recognising excellence in urban design related projects in the GBA and fostering collaboration and exchange among urban designers, planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, surveyors and other urban design professionals, companies and organisations in the GBA.
The GBA Urban Design Awards are comprised of the Professional Category and the Student Category. In the 2022 edition, a new category of Urban Design Video Competition was created which was open to the general public (Open Category) and full-time students (Student Category) in all cities in the GBA.
About the Greater Bay Area Urban Designer Alliance (GBAUDA)
With the mission of elevation of urban design standard and improvement of the livability of the cities in the Greater Bay Area, the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism – Macau, Guangzhou Urban Planning Association, Urban Planning Society of Shenzhen, and Zhuhai Planning Exploration and Design Industry Association (“Five Founding Member Institutes”) agree to establish the Greater Bay Area Urban Designer Alliance (“the Alliance”). It is a professional platform for promotion of collaboration among urban design professionals, practices and organizations in the Greater Bay Area including urban designers, architects, landscape designers, town planners and engineers, and subsequently establish the professional recognition for urban design practitioners in the Greater Bay Area.
About CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism
CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism – Macau (CURB) is an NGO established in Macau in 2014, to promote research, education, production and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of architecture, urbanism, design and urban culture. It stands as an exchange platform between academia, civil society, professional practice, and government institutions, serving the interests of the overall community. CURB is the organizer of Open House Macau, the first Open House event in Asia, and is an Associate Partner of the World Urban Campaign, organizing Urban Thinkers Campus in Macau.
Working both on a regional level – Macau, Greater Bay Area and China – and on an international level – particularly in Asia and Portuguese-speaking countries –, CURB aims to take local issues to a global audience. The establishment of partnerships and joint programs with local and international institutions are preferred tools for CURB’s mission as a think tank on the future of cities and their architecture.
