Jinwan Aviation City

10 DESIGN has won the international design competitions for three separate projects in the Jinwan Aviation City of Zhuhai, where aviation is under a period of unprecedented growth. Zhuhai is a prefecture-level city on the southern coast of Guangdong province in China. Located in the Pearl River Delta, Zhuhai was one of the original Special Economic Zones established in the 1980s. The outstanding geographic location, a wide range of supporting infrastructure and a deep-water port serve as a major attraction for foreign capital.

Zhuhai is also one of China’s premier tourist destinations, being called the Chinese Riviera. Zhuhai borders the Macau Special Administrative Region (north and west), and 140 kilometres (87 miles) southwest of Guangzhou. Its territory includes 146 islands. Heavy traffic between Zhuhai and Macau has led to the construction of a new crossborder corridor, the Lotus Bridge, built in November 1999 to divert traffic away from the congested Gongbei Port of Entry. As part of the Pearl River Delta integration, a Hong Kong- Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is scheduled to be commissioned in 2016. Zhuhai (the only city which will connect Hong Kong and Macau) has become significantly prominent within the Pearl Delta region.

The China Government has gazetted the Jinwan Aviation City as part of an overall plan to further boost Zhuhai’s economy whereby staging aviation as a major industry in the city and creating an associated diverse business hub within the city.

The three Jinwan Aviation projects by 10 DESIGN will play a critical role in forming the anchor buildings within the business hub: an International Commerce Centre (a twin tower for 127,000 sqm of office, hotel & serviced apartment accommodation), an Industrial Service Centre (55,000 sqm incubation platform for innovative start-up companies and entrepreneurs), and a Cultural Centre (27,500 sqm civic facilities for performance, conference & exhibition, museum, cinema and retail spaces).

Led by Nick Cordingley and Gordon Affleck (Design Partners at 10 DESIGN), the competition design is progressing to detail design. The Jinwan Aviation City will be constructed by 2019.

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