UN – HABITAT 2018 Free Student Architecture Competition

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UN – HABITAT 2018

STUDENT COMPETITION URBAN HERITAGE & TRANSFORMATION: WUHAN, CHINA

 

BRIEF

UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, and WLSP, the Wuhan Land Use and Spatial Planning Research Center, are organizing an international student competition to propose creative and innovative solutions for a vacant waterfront site in inner-city Wuhan. The competition is part of the UN-Habitat–WL SP programme “People Oriented Urban Public Spaces” for China.

Wuhan is the capital of Hebei province, China. The city, with a population of 10.91 million, is located at the Yangtze River and Han River in the center of China. Major rail and highway network s of China all cross in Wuhan. The city is renowned for its large student population, its car factories and its high-tech industries. UN-Habitat and WSLP collaborate since 2016 and will jointly organize Wuhan Placemaking Week in late 2018, where the competition finalists will be invited to.

 

SCHEDULE

All competition submissions shall arrive at the organizer through electronic submission no later than 15 August 2018, 23.59 GMT+8 (China time zone). Late submissions are disqualified.

 

AWARDS

Laureate teams will be invited to Wuhan, with a maximum of three members of each team. The costs of economy flights and stay will be covered by the organisers. There are no additional monetary awards.

 

FEES

FREE

 

WEBSITE

http://www.fukuoka.unhabitat.org/info/news/pdf/20180409Wuhan_Competition_Rules_and_Guidance_final.pdf

 

For more information about this competition, please contact us.