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Hillcrest Surfside is a 10-story residential apartment siting on the Surfside Beach. In this project, the structure and the building next to it – Surfside Seaway – need to be included in the images at the same time. For the season that they belong to the same owner, this time, we needed to create 3D renderings that went along the lighting, materials and mood with the adjacent building.
Challenging task for “AER In The District” project in Tampa, Florida. Clad in smooth stucco, this façade is joined by vertical rows of stacked balconies and floor-to-ceiling glass windows. To present this amazing façade design, we carefully added different materials and made sure the result looked perfectly harmonious at the same time.
For the interior views, we build the 3D model from the scratch based on the hand sketches from the designers. Our 3D renderings show various faces of the structure, providing a glimpse into what it’s like to live and work in this mixed-use.
In this project, we used photo-composition for the best veracity of surrounding environment. Located at the Biscayne Bay, Miami, 710 Edge Tower is a 55-story ultra-luxury mixed-use building featuring 70 residential units and more than 16,000 square feet of commercial and retail spaces. Our client used these images to report to Miami city and got it approved.
Our visuals focus on its unique fluid curves and its distinctive exoskeleton exterior design. At the same time, we highlighted the concrete framing structure with proper materials such as dark tinted laminated glass and dark grey anodized aluminum. Finally, we set the lighting based on the site photos and adjusted them to make them consistent.
Situated in Tampa, Florida, the various plans are the spotlight of the project. Being one of the merits of architectural visualization, our 3D renderings demonstrate six different designs for this project in a short turnaround time. Because this adjacent building belongs to the same owner, this structure need to match it in all aspects, such as glazing, mullions, parking slabs, columns and vegetation.
Located on the river near downtown Miami, the Riverside Wharf, will be a hospitality-driven entertainment complex and is scheduled to open to the public in 2025. Our client used our 3D renderings to report and get this project approved.
By using the CAD files provided by the client, we created the perfect 3D renderings that visual the unbuilt. Despite the tight schedule and unexpected design change, we successfully complete this project within the timeframe.
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The project of China Artificial Intelligence (Guangzhou) Industrial Park has been approved for construction by Tianhe District Development and Reform Bureau of Guangzhou Municipality with Guangdong Provincial Enterprise Investment Project Registration Certificate (Project Code: 2206-440106-04-01-130031). The project owner is Guangzhou New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park Management Co., Ltd., and all the construction funds are raised by the project owner. As the project has met all applicable conditions, a competition is hereby launched on the architectural design of the project.
Project Overview
Competition Name: International Architectural Design Competition of China Artificial Intelligence (Guangzhou) Industrial Park
Background
China Artificial Intelligence (Guangzhou) Industrial Park is located in the Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Pilot Zone. The park aims to advance the national digital economy strategy, further integrate the digital economy with the real economy, and contribute to the development of national pilot zones of artificial intelligence and the digital economy.
The project sits around the former site of Guangzhou No.2 Cotton Mill and will be divided into two parts in its future development. The western part will be for new buildings, with a focus on fostering a digital, green, and international city and a global headquarter of artificial intelligence, digital economy, and digital culture. The eastern part, where some historical buildings (workshops) of Guangzhou No.2 Cotton Mill are preserved, will be developed into a cultural and art platform for sharing and exchanges. The goal is to make full use of the historical and cultural value of the area and unlock new vitality for the ancient city of Guangzhou. The synchronous progress of these two parts will facilitate Guangzhou to become a leader in the industrial coordination in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a pioneer of world-class industries, while creating a valuable urban space of high quality, high capacity, and high efficiency.
The project is situated in the Guangzhou Artificial and Digital Economy Pilot Zone, downtown Guangzhou. Aside from its superior geographic location, it boasts a convenient transportation network that includes Hua’nan Expressway, Huacheng Avenue, Metro Line 5 (completed), and Line 30 (under construction). Especially, the station of Line 30 will be connected to the project underground when it is accomplished.
Location
The project is situated in the Guangzhou Artificial and Digital Economy Pilot Zone, downtown Guangzhou. Aside from its superior geographic location, it boasts a convenient transportation network that includes Hua’nan Expressway, Huacheng Avenue, Metro Line 5 (completed), and Line 30 (under construction). Especially, the station of Line 30 will be connected to the project underground when it is accomplished.
Map of Location
Project Scope
The scope of the project reaches Yuancun West Street in the north, Huacheng Avenue in the south, Yuancun South Street in the east, and Hua’nan Expressway in the west. The total area is 97,173.33 square meters (within the property boundary), and the net area is 70,048 square meters (including the construction land and green space in both the western and eastern parts). Specifically, the eastern part covers 32,283 square meters, where the Bauhaus historic buildings in the core protection area need to be preserved and renovated； the west block covers 37,765 square meters, which will be the main area for new constructions.
This is an architectural design project for China Artificial Intelligence (Guangzhou) Industrial Park. The design plan should cover buildings, historical architecture renovation, public spaces, transportation systems, green landscapes, etc. within the scope of the project.
Project Scope
Aerial View of the Project site
The project covers a gross floor area of roughly 353,700 square meters and the budget for construction and installation fee is RMB 3.76 billion.
The detailed regulatory planning attributes of plot West 1 are Other Business Land and Commercial Land (B29B1), with the main land use functions being commercial and service support, business, and office. The gross floor area is approximately 330,500 square meters, of which 32,400 square meters are for commercial use and 298,100 square meters are for offices (including supporting residential buildings). The non-floor area (underground parking, equipment rooms, etc.) should be set up in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations and the needs of the plan.
The detailed regulatory planning attributes of plot East 1 are other business land, art and media land, and commercial land (B29B22B1), mainly to create a shared space for exchanges such as expositions, lectures, and conferences.
Plots East 2 and 3 are classified as parkland (G1), whose main functions are to increase open public space, activate the space of historic buildings, and create a small parkland with recreational functions； the total area of these two plots is 2,878 square meters. The detailed regulatory planning attributes of plots West 2 and East 4 are protective green space (G2) with a total area of 5,114 square meters. G1 and G2 are non-building plots and their landscape design should be considered as a whole with the landscape design of building plots.
The width of planned road one is 20m and the road section needs to be designed under the condition that the planned alignment remains unchanged.
Map of Project Site
Participant Name
Sponsor：Guangzhou New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park Management Co., Ltd.
Organizer：Guangzhou Urban Planning and Design Co., Ltd.
Agency: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd.
Competition Mode
A. Competition Form
This competition will be announced on the websites of China Tendering and Bidding Public Service Platform (http://www.cebpubservice.com/), ABBS Architecture Forum (http://www.abbs.com.cn/) and Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd.（http://www.gjjl.com/）, and the applications and registrations of domestic and foreign agencies will be publicly accepted.
Selection Phase
This competition adopts a form of “invitation + open call”.
Through “invitation + open call”, six agencies will be selected and enter the design phase.
Invited agencies (in no particular order):
Gensler Architectural Design Firm (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Leader) , Guangdong Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Member)
Gmp International GmbH (Leader), Guangdong Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Member)
Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology Co., Ltd. (Leader), Strabala+ architects LLC (Member)
Agencies selected by open call: Competition announcement will be published on the website, and the application is open to all domestic and foreign agencies. Experts will be organized to rank the applicants. The top three agencies will be selected as official participating agencies, and those ranking the fourth to the sixth will be selected as alternate participating agencies. If less than six agencies meet the requirements of public solicitation for the competition, sponsors can determine to extend the registration time according to the project situation.
After the release of selected agencies, if any selected agency (3 invited agencies + 3 agencies selected via open call) abandons for some reason, it will be substituted by the alternate agencies in turn.
Selection Process
This competition includes two stages: qualification examination and merit-based comprehensive evaluation. First, experts are organized to examine the qualifications of all the agencies and determine their qualifications. Agencies that do not meet the qualification requirements are not allowed to go through merit-based comprehensive evaluation.
The evaluation committee will comprehensively evaluate the agencies on the basis of merit, and fully discuss and compare their qualifications after a careful study of their comprehensive competences, relevant achievements, comprehensive qualities, and conceptual proposals. By means of disclosed ballot, 3 participating agencies and 3 alternate agencies will be selected by public solicitation, and the list thereof will be reported to the competition sponsors.
B. Cost Compensation
The finalists who pass the validity examination will receive a cost compensation of RMB 500,000 (about US$74,000) (including but not limited to expenses for design, product production, design research, travel incurred in coordinating the communication meeting related to the projects, design copyright, and tax), while those who fail the validity examination will not receive any cost compensation or bonus.
C. Prizes and Bonuses
One or no first prize. The first-prize winner will be awarded a detailed design contract of about RMB 30 million (about US$4,445,000) (tax included), while no other bonuses will be given. The fee for the detailed design contract shall be subject to the standards provided in the Engineering Survey and Design Fee Management Regulations (Ji Jia Ge [2002] No. 10)； the tentative basic construction and installation fee will be RMB 3.76 billion (about US$557,212,000), and no other adjustment factors will be taken into account. The final design fee shall be adjusted according to the fee of construction and installation approved in the official reply to the estimated budget. The organizer reserves the right to leave the first prize vacant and reorganize the competition.
Two second prizes (in case of no first prize winner, three second prizes shall be granted), each receiving a bonus of RMB 1 million (about US$148,200) (tax included).
D. Payment Method
If, after evaluation, any agency that receives one or more of the compensation cost, winning bonus, and detailed design fee is a group, the competition sponsors will pay in full one or more thereof to the main account of the group, which will be redistributed by the group as per the proportion agreed in the Group Participation Agreement. The competition sponsors will not pay any additional fees to the members of the group.
The compensation cost, winning bonus, and detailed design fee of the design competition will be paid in RMB by the competition sponsors to the agencies, and any taxes incurred shall be borne by the agencies themselves. The cost compensation, bonus, and scheme integration and optimization fees will be paid in RMB to the domestic agencies in China.
Design institutions may co-own the intellectual property rights of their entries for the project with the competition sponsor. However, such design results can only be used in this project and shall not be provided to any third party for replication. In addition, sponsors have ownership of all the design results collected in this international competition. No design results will be returned to the agencies after evaluation. The agencies that submit the valid Registration Form according to the competition requirements are deemed to have agreed with all the terms and conditions herein.
E. Taxes and Fees
All income obtained by the participating institutions and their employees in China due to the performance of this contract must be paid in accordance with Chinese tax laws, and all taxes shall be borne by the participating institutions and their employees.
If the participating organization obtains income in China due to the performance of this contract, all fees that must be paid in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and administrative rules of China, Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City shall be borne by the participating institution.
The domestic taxes and fees payable by the participating organizations can be deducted by the organizer each time the design fee is paid, and a copy of the tax receipt and payment receipt shall be sent to the participating institution.
All taxes and fees outside China arising from the performance of this contract shall be borne by the participating institutions.
Detailed Design Contract
The first prize winner of this project will be granted with a detailed design contract.
Detailed design contains: 1. Planning and professional designs (architecture, structure, landscape, decoration, curtain wall, electromechanics, intelligence, etc.)； 2. Preliminary architectural and structural design； 3. Guidance and cooperation in preliminary designs of other areas. The contractor shall give guidance to the design of construction drawings, and chief creative personnel shall be designated to give guidance on site during the process of project construction, with the cost calculated separately. The detailed design content and expenses are subject to the final detailed design contract. The design results shall meet the requirements of contents and depth of the corresponding design documents in the Regulations on the Depth of Architectural Engineering Design Document Preparation (2016 Edition) issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, and pass the preliminary design examination of the relevant specialties. On the basis of the above scope, the content and depth of the detailed design contract will be determined by negotiation between the competition sponsors and the winning design agency.
Competition Schedule
Announcement of the international competition and start accepting registrations from global institutions: July 26-August 22, 2022 (9:00-12:00 am, 14:00-17:00 pm, excluding holidays).
Receive the registration documents for the competition and send the competition documents: before 17:00 on August 22, 2022.
Receive conceptual proposals: before 17:00 on August 25, 2022.
Selection of participating institutions for public solicitation: late August 2022.
Notification of the selection results of the public call for participating institutions: late August 2022.
Publish the list of 6 shortlisted institutions: late August 2022.
Deadline for receiving questions for the first time: late September 2022.
Design time of the competition plan: from early September to early November 2022.
Mid-term inspection time of the competition plan: late September 2022.
Deadline for the second time to receive questions: early October 2022.
Evaluation of design results: All official participating institutions must deliver the final results of the competition to the designated place on November 4, 2022 (the specific time and place are subject to the written or email notification of the competition organizer).
Announcement of the winning scheme: The winning institution will be announced in mid-November 2022.
Note: All times are based on Beijing time, and the sponsor and organizer reserve the right to adjust the schedule.
Registration
Qualification Requirements
There are no qualification requirements during the competition. If the agency granted with the detailed design contract in this competition does not have one of the following qualifications for domestic design, the agency shall unite with domestic agencies with the corresponding design qualifications before the signing of detailed design contract: a. Comprehensive Class-A Qualification for Engineering Design； Qualifications for Construction Engineering Design (Class-A in the construction industry or (Construction Engineering) Professional Class-A in the construction industry； c. Qualifications of Architecture Design Firm. There shall be no more than three agencies in a group, so that the scheme and the preliminary design will meet the relevant norms, regulations, and the requirements of administrative examination and approval departments in China and Guangzhou. Before signing a contract with the agencies to unite, the agency granted with the detailed design contract of this project shall submit the entrusted agency, the achievements of the proposed team, the relevant qualification documents, etc. to the competition sponsors for confirmation before entrusting.
Agencies applying via open call shall have relevant achievements in undertaking architectural design projects from January 1, 2017 to the deadline of registration. (Copies of contracts and other supporting documents are required. For previous achievements undertaken by a group, relevant documents shall be provided to certify that the scope of work undertaken by the group in the project meets the requirements herein. The time of achievements calculation should be the time of signing the contract.)
The leading designer must directly participate in the whole process of the competition, and personally attend the competition site to report the scheme at least twice. (If he cannot be present due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, video reporting can be used.) The design agency shall ensure that the leading designer and the main designers participate in the design throughout the process, and that the person in charge of detailed design is just the leading designer, and may not be changed halfway. If the design agency is a group, the leading designer shall be a member of the leader of the group.
Teams applying via open call can submit the conceptual proposal required for the design tasks in this competition. For the conceptual proposal, there are no requirements for the design depth. The electronic document of the proposal (sent to the e-mail of the competition agency: rgznjs2022 @163.com before 17:00 on August 25, 2022) and AO panels (single-sided, vertical, at most two panels, punched in four corners, and sent to the competition agency before 17:00 on August 25, 2022) shall be provided. The proposal shall be written in simplified Chinese or Chinese – other language. The content of the document is subject to the Chinese text.
Note: See Annex for details.
Registration Method
Registration time: GMT+8 July 26-August 22, 2022. (On-site submissions will be accepted on 9:00-12:00 am, 14:00-17:00 pm,on working days； on-site submissions will not be accepted on legal holidays.)
Registration method and steps: Interested agencies shall prepare registration documents (see Annex) according to the requirements for selecting documents, and deliver or mail Registration Form （see Annex 1）, List of registered design institutions （see Annex 2）, Format of Registration Documents （see Annex 3） in written form to the competition organizer before the deadline for submission. At the same time, the electronic documents shall be sent to the e-mail of the competition agency: rgznjs2022@163.com. Deadline for submission: Before 17:00, August 22, 2022. If the applicant mails the registration documents, the time of submission shall be the time when the competition organizer signs for the receipt of the registration documents. The written registration documents must be delivered to the site or mailed to the receiving address before the registration deadline. If the written registration documents are delivered before the registration deadline (subject to the mail receipt record or the on-site receipt form record), the registration is successful. If the written registration documents are not delivered or mailed before the deadline due to the mailing process or for other reasons, all the consequences arising during the process shall be borne by the agency that participates in the registration.
Receiving address:
Name of recipient: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd.
Receiver: Mr Li
Receiving address: Bidding Agency Department, 18F, No. 4, Guangwei Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
Tel: 8613535198587，8620-61101333-1865
Requirements for Documents
The format and submission of the registration documents shall be in accordance with the requirements of Format of Registration Documents.
The agency must prepare complete registration documents and bind them into a book or more books, if necessary. The cover of each book of registration documents separately bound must be stamped with the official seal of the agency. The registration documents shall be stamped with the official seal of the participating agency on the perforation and on each page. The agency’s representative can be its legal representative or authorized representative. A valid power of attorney signed by the legal representative shall be submitted together with the registration documents signed by the authorized representative.
Note: The registration documents stipulate that the group agreement shall be stamped with the official seal of the corresponding agency by each member, and other contents in the registration documents can be only stamped and signed by the main body of the group.
The agency must bear all consequences caused by any errors or omissions in its registration documents.
All registration documents shall be made in sextuplicate (one original and five duplicates marked with “original” and “duplicate”, and the electronic documents shall be sent to the e-mail of the competition agency. In case of any consistency, the written registration documents shall prevail). If the original is inconsistent with the duplicate, the original shall prevail. The registration documents shall be formally signed by the legally authorized representative of the agency, and any changes (if any) shall be signed by the original signer. The original shall be stamped with the seal of the agency in the position marked on the format document in addition to the seal on the perforation. (For a group, only the seal of the leader is required to be stamped on the perforation.)
All registration documents shall be delivered to the full-time person in charge of the competition agency before the deadline for submission. Documents that arrive late will not be accepted. The competition agency will not take any responsibility for the damage or loss of registration documents caused by force majeure events.
All registration documents must be sealed in an envelope or package with the official seal of the agency affixed to the seal. a. The original, b. the duplicates, and c. the Registration Form of the registration documents shall be bound separately and sealed together, and the following shall be written on the cover of envelope or package:
Registration Form
Recipient Name: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd.
Competition Name:：
Name of Design Agency:
Address of Design Agency:
Contacts:
Contact Tel.:
It cannot be opened before (deadline for submission of application documents)
Contact Information
Competition agency: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd.
Contact: Miss Xu, Miss Gan
Tel: 8620-61101333-1870, 8620-61101333-1867
Address: Bidding Agency Department, 18F, No. 4, Guangwei Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
E-mail: rgznjs2022@163.com
Specifications:
The design competition is governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China. The competition work and all documents shall be consistent with Chinese laws. In case of any dispute, if negotiation fails, it shall be submitted to Guangzhou Arbitration Commission for arbitration. The arbitration award is final and binding on all parties.
This project is neither an essential bidding project nor a government procurement project. The laws, regulations, rules or normative documents related to the above projects are not applicable.
No registration documents will be returned. All registration documents and design result documents for the competition shall be written in Chinese.
The agencies only own the authorship of the design result documents, and other intellectual property rights are owned by the sponsor of this design competition.
Overseas agencies must be authorized by the headquarters before participating in this competition.
To ensure the project designers’ accurate understanding of the regional background and relevant requirements in China, overseas design agencies shall be equipped with at least one person who is proficient in Chinese.
Registration of a group is accepted in this competition. There shall be no more than three agencies in a group, and the group shall submit the Group Participation Agreement as required (which shall be stamped with the official seal of the corresponding agency by each member. If an overseas participating agency has no official seal, the agreement can be signed by its legal representative or legally authorized representative.)
In case of any inconsistency between Chinese and English expressions in this announcement and its annexes, the Chinese expression shall prevail. The documents submitted by an overseas agency shall include Chinese (simplified) translations, but if the Chinese contents are inconsistent with the non-Chinese contents in the documents submitted, the simplified Chinese contents shall prevail.
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
Competition Name: International Design Competition of Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral Complex In Conghua District Guangzhou
Project background
The CPC Central Committee released a package of policies in 2018 charting the roadmap for rural vitalization，featuring thriving businesses, pleasant living environment, social etiquette and civility, effective governance and prosperity. In October of the same year, Guangzhou issued the implementation opinions of the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government on promoting the rural vitalization Strategy, to clarify the positioning of Guangzhou as a good example and model in rural vitalization of Guangdong province, to walk out a road of rural vitalization with Guangzhou characteristics .In May 2021, the general office of the Ministry of Finance issued the notice on further improving the pilot work of National Pastoral Complex construction, on the basis of National Pastoral Complex construction pilot experience. In 2021, the central government will continue to support qualified regions to carry out the pilot construction of national pastoral complexes.Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral Complex In Conghua District Guangzhou is the only pastoral complex project registered by the Ministry of Finance in Guangdong Province in May 2021. The business covers modern agriculture, home accommodation, catering, intangible cultural heritage, culture and tourism, etc. The goal of the project is to realize the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, with rural cooperatives as the key, and realize the integration of agriculture, leading agriculture and enriching farmers.
The project is located in Aotou Town, Conghua District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, involving Longtan village, Hengjiang village and Wushi village. The Pajiang river passes through the three villages, adjacent to national highway 106 in the East and Guanglian Expressway in the West.Conghua district is the ecological core area in the north of Guangzhou. It takes the lead in realizing the full coverage of clean and tidy villages and beautiful and livable villages in the whole province, forming a good example of rural vitalization and characteristic towns. Aotou town is a new urbanization demonstration town in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou and a demonstration pilot town in Guangzhou. It is a major agricultural town in Conghua district and one of the five demonstration towns in Guangzhou to create high grain production. It has the development foundation for building a Rural Vitalization demonstration area.
In order to further implement the National Rural Vitalization Strategy, speed up the cultivation of new driving forces for high-quality development of rural economy, and create a National Pastoral Complex, Guangzhou Yuexiu Fengxing Pastoral Complex Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Yuexiu Fengxing Pastoral Complex Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangzhou Yuexiu Group Co., Ltd.) launched the international competition for the design scheme of Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral complex in Conghua District, Guangzhou (hereinafter referred to as the “competition”), in order to realistically develop the village and build a demonstration area for Rural Vitalization in Guangdong.
Working range and competition content
This competition covers two levels: research area and overall design area, of which the overall design area includes two sub projects. See Annex 1 for details.
Research area：The project involves Wushi village, Hengjiang village, Longtan Village in Aotou Town, covering an area of 21.27 square kilometers. The competition content covers the overall positioning, cluster structure and regional traffic road system optimization and so on.
Overall design area
Sub project 1 is Rural architecture and landscape design:The total area is about 19.9 hectares, which is divided into three areas: Wushi Village area, Ge Village area and Xujia courtyard area, with a planning area of about 10.4 hectares, 5.8 hectares and 3.7 hectares respectively. The rural architecture and landscape design scheme should focus on the rural activation under the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in the area, and put forward design strategies. The design content includes the transformation and utilization aimed at activating the operation, such as the transformation of rural Courier station, home accommodation, facade upgrading, public space upgrading, farmland and woodland activation, etc. No less than 3 key node concept designs are proposed in each area.
Sub project 2 is cultural tourism project design:the project is located in Qinglong base, Hengjiang village, Aotou town. The design area includes Huamei pasture and surrounding villages. The planned area is about 295.3 hectares, of which the core area design scope is about 106.7 hectares.The main design content needs to fully combine the operation concept and mode of the pastoral complex, build brand IP around cow IP, and innovate the design of buildings and landscapes with industrial and rural local characteristics.Through the creation of a serious of unique rural life scenes and the shaping of landmark buildings, the project creates a unique pastoral complex to achieve four new highlights of “Industrial Innovation, Environmental Renewal, Cultural Renewal and Institutional Innovation”.
Registration Method
Registration Qualification Required
The design organization applicants from domestic shall have the independent legal person qualification, and provide business license , not being ordered to close or being repealed. The design organization applicants from overseas must be a legally registered design institution in the place where it is located, and provide a valid registration certificate. If the person in charge of the company is the same person or different companies with holding or management relationship, it’s forbidden to sign up for the competition project at the same time. （Note: LOCATION refers to the main place where companies, enterprises or commercial institutions are registered to operate business or set up offices according to law）
Domestic applicant must have one of the following valid qualifications: (1)Construction Industry Engineering Design Qualification Class-A (2) Construction Industry (Construction Engineering) Professional Design Qualification Class-A (3)Engineering Design Integrated Qualification Class-A (4)Urban and Rural Planning Qualification Class-A (5) Landscape Professional Engineering Design Qualification Class-A (6)Tourism Planning and Design Qualification Class-A. Copies of relevant documents hould be provided with official seals.
Personal registration is not accepted in this competition(including all members of the consortium).
The design organization applicant (either party of the consortium)shall have the relevant planning (or design) achievements of Rural Vitalization or ecological town or characteristic town or cultural tourism or artistic installation from January 1, 2017 to the deadline of registration (The copy of contract and other supporting documents shall be provided. For the past performance undertaken by a consortium, relevant materials shall be provided to prove that the working contents undertaken by the company in the project meets the requirements of this item. The performance calculation time shall be subject to the contract signing time).
The General Project Leader/Chief designer must directly participate in the whole process of design activity，and personally attend the competition site to report the plan at least 2 times.The design organization applicant shall ensure the General Project Leader/Chief designer and main designers always participate in design that shall not be replaced midway.
In order to ensure that the project designers have an accurate understanding of the Chinese background and relevant requirements, the overseas design organization must have at least one person familiar with Chinese.
The application by the consortium is accepted in the competition. The number of organizations constituting the consortium shall not exceed 2. The consortium shall submit the Agreement of Consortium Participating in the Competition as required (each member of the consortium shall affix the official seal of the corresponding entity； if the overseas design organization has no seal, it can be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative).
Note: For detailed information, please refer to Annex 3: Collection Document ,Part two. Composition of The Application Documents, Annex 3-1 Qualification Form, Annex 4 Concept Proposal.
Registration Time
Based on Beijing time, 9:00-12:00 am and 14:00-17:00 PM from July 28 to August 16, 2022 ( Don’t accept the submission of materials on legal holidays).
Registration Method
The design organizations intending to participate in the competition MUST upload the completed application registration form and attachments (refer to Annex 2 for details) affixed with official seal to E-mail box:yuexiucomplex@163.com within the specified time.
It is allowed design organizations intending to participate in the competition to apply for two sub projects at the same time, but which cannot be recommended as the participating design organization and candidates of the two sub projects at the same time. That is to say, sub project 1 will be selected first. If it has been recommended as a participating design organization in sub project 1, it will no longer participate in the selection of sub project 2.Before the selection of sub project 2, the participating design organization that have been recommended as sub project 1 shall be eliminated first, and then the participating design institutions and candidates shall be recommended in turn according to the selection rules. If the candidate of sub project 1 is selected as the participating design organization of sub peoject 2, the candidate of sub project 1 will be postponed according to the ranking after excluding the organization. If the candidate of sub project 2 is the candidate of sub project 1, the candidate of sub project 2 will also be postponed in the above-mentioned manner.
Competition Registration Documents
The design organizations intending to participate in the competition MUST send or post the completed competition application document (refer to Annex 3 and Annex 4 for details) in written form to the competition co-organizer before 17:00, Aug.16, 2022. If the design organization submits the documents by mail, the submission time shall be subject to the time when the competition co-organizer signs and receives the registration documents.
The receiving address information is as follows:
Name of recipient:Chen Yiyang
Contact phone number：020-83546050、13611455891
Address: 62nd floor, Zhujiang New Town International Financial Center, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
For different sub projects,the design organization applicant must prepare a complete application document and bind it into a volume. It can be bound in separate volumes when the content is overmuch. The cover of the registration documents bound independently shall be affixed with the official seal of the design organization applicant, and the registration documents shall be affixed with the official seal of the design organization applicant in the slit and on each page. If the overseas design institution has no official seal, it can be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative .The representative of the design organization applicant can be the legal representative or its authorized representative. The registration document signed by the authorized representative shall be accompanied by a valid power of attorney signed by the legal representative.
The design organizations must bear all the consequences caused by any mistake or omission in the application documents.
The registration documents are should be in quadruplicate (1 original and 3 copies, which must be marked with the words “original” and “copy” on the cover of the registration documents), and one electronic copy of the registration documents (including one document in WORD format and original paper document color scanned in PDF format ,which shall be stored in USB flash drive, without encrypted and virus). If the original is inconsistent with the copy, the original shall prevail.
The registration document shall be duly signed by a legally authorized representative of the design organization applicant and any changes, if any, shall be signed by the original signatory.
All registration documents should be delivered to the competition co-organizer before the deadline. Overdue documents will not be accepted. The co-organizer will not be responsible for the damage or loss of the registration documents caused by force majeure.
All application documents must be sealed in a sealed envelope or package with the official seal of the design organization applicant affixed to the seal. (1) the original (with official seal on the original), (2) the copy, (3) the application registration form and (4) the electronic version of the application document should be sealed separately and marked,the above contents shall be written on the cover of each envelope or package(see the selection document for details).
The written registration materials made in accordance with the registration requirements in (I) of the competition registration methods in this announcement VI must be delivered to the site or by post before the registration deadline. The written registration materials delivered before the deadline (subject to the mail signing record or the on-site signing form record) will be deemed as successful registration.
Competition method
Selection of design organization
This competition adopts the method of public registration. By publishing the competition announcement on the website, it openly accepts public design organization applications from domestic and overseas..Through selection and ranking by experts,the top three design organizations in each sub project are selected as the participating organizations, and the fourth is the candidate . If there are less than 6 design organizations that meet the requirements of competition qualification, the competition sponsor may decide to extend the registration time or reorganize the registration according to the project situation. If any design organizations give up the shortlisted qualification for some reason after the shortlisted institutions confirmed and before the release of the competition documents, their competition shall be replaced in turn among the alternate design organizations until 3 are supplemented.. The competition co-organizer will send a formal invitation to the shortlisted design organizations, and the competition schemes submitted by other design organizations that have not been formally invited will not be accepted.
The selection results of the competition design organizations will be announced in mid-late August 2022.
Release of competition technical documents
The official competition technical document release meeting of the project is tentatively scheduled to be held in mid-late August 2022., and the site survey and Q &； A will be organized at the same time. The specific place and time in the invitation letter shall prevail.
Submission time of achievements
The deadline for submission of results is tentatively set for early October 2022. All design organizations must submit the final competition outcome documents to the designated place before the deadline, subject to the actual signing time.The design cycle is about 45 calendar days.
Results review method
The evaluation of the competition results includes two stages:the validity review and the scheme evaluation. The review committee of technical will first review the validity of all achievement schemes to determine the validity of achievement schemes. Results programmes that fail to pass the validity review shall not enter the scheme review.
The evaluation committee of scheme will evaluate the valid achievement scheme which pass the validity review, and select a winning scheme for each sub project by voting on the basis of careful study of the competition technical documents and full discussion and comparison.
The competition evaluation results of this project will be tentatively announced within 5 working days after the competition results evaluation meeting.
Competition expense arrangement
Competition cost compensation and bonus
If the design result is confirmed to be valid by experts,in each sub project,the third ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of seven hundred thousand RMB (￥ 700000.00), the second ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of eight hundred thousand RMB (￥ 800000.00), and the first ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of nine hundred thousand RMB (￥900000.00). The result that fails to pass the validity review will not receive cost compensation. If the scheme is evaluated by experts and finally confirmed by the organizer, the design organizations of the scheme can obtain another deepening design fee of one million RMB (￥ 1000000.00) on the basis of cost compensation.
Note: The participating unit of the consortium is regarded as a design organization.
Payment method
The competition cost compensation fee and the deepening design fee are paid in RMB, the expenses shall be settled with design organization by the institution, and any taxes incurred are borne by the design organization. If the competition design organization is a consortium, it shall form a written agreement on the proportion of the consortium’s expenses within 28 days from the date of the press conference of the competition technical documents and submit it to the competition co-organizer. Those who fail to submit within the time limit will only settle all the expenses of the consortium with the main part of the consortium.
The cost compensation and deepening design fees obtained shall be paid to all signing up for the competitions in China in RMB. If the overseas design organization cannot use its own account to collect RMB, it can authorize the domestic legal independent legal person to collect the money, and the relevant handling fees, taxes and other fees shall be borne by the design organization.
Note：
The design organization whose competition design results are evaluated as invalid by the evaluation committee will not be compensated for the competition cost.
The cost compensation fee of this competition includes all expenses incurred by the design organization during this competition (including but not limited to design expenses, achievement production expenses, design research expenses, travel expenses incurred in cooperating with the holding of relevant project communication meetings, design copyright fees, relevant taxes, etc.), and no other expenses will be paid.
Others
The competition shall be governed by the laws of the people’s Republic of China, and the competition work and all documents shall be governed by Chinese laws. In case of any dispute, if the negotiation fails, it shall be submitted to China Guangzhou International Arbitration Center for arbitration. The arbitration shall be final and binding on both parties.
In case of any discrepancy between this competition announcement and the officially released competition technical document, the officially released competition technical document shall prevail.
In case of any inconsistency between the English version and the Chinese version of the registration announcement of this competition, the Chinese version of the announcement shall prevail.
All application materials will not be returned.
The above contents or requirements are applicable to all sub projects unless otherwise specified.
If there is no special explanation for all the requirements of “company seal” in this project, the overseas design institution shall be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative. If the registered design organization is a consortium, the main party of the consortium shall affix the company seal in addition to the consortium entry agreement.
If the materials provided by overseas units are in foreign languages, Chinese materials notarized by qualified translation institutions or notary offices shall be provided.
The agency service fee is charged separately by sub projects. The participating design institutions that obtain the winning scheme will be charged at 3% of the sum of cost compensation fee and deepening design fee. The participating design institutions that obtain cost compensation fee will be paid at 3% of cost compensation fee, and the above payment procedures will be handled in RMB.
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
There is no doubt that 3D rendering can be a powerful tool for travel agencies. By using 3D rendering services, you can not only achieve the “seeing is believing” effect, but also spark your clients’ interest for the trip.
Our client Leo from O-Lifestyle brought us this new exciting project on Aegina Island, Greece. It is a luxury club and hotel providing the opportunity to escape the normality of reality. At the same time, it is a redevelopment of an area where the hills underwent a forest fire a couple of years ago.
The old site.
This time, we built a 3D model from the scratch and created 3D renderings, and the result turned to be satisfying. In this case study, we described the whole process step by step, so that you can have a clear perspective of an architectural visualization project. Let’s check it out!
The Scope
Leo was looking at different types of 3D visuals: 3D rendering and 3D floor plan. To specify:
An aerial view of the harbor, demonstrating the masterplan of this resort;
An interior view of the room, which gives a clear view of the hotel accommodation;
An exterior view of the hotel, which is a close-up view showing the details of the hotel environment;
A 3D floor plan to showcase the layout of the room.
Building the 3D Model
Leo summarized the references for the buildings and shared the masterplan, and we needed to build the 3D model based on these information.
According to the masterplan details, we knew the following:
There are two rows of suits, and they are identical;
The recreation area sits behind one of the suits, including brasserie, sky lounge, lobby, SPA & wellness, and linear pools;
There is a lagoon with sand beach and waterfall;
Facing the sea, there is a beach all-day restaurant club;
Along the beach, there is a yacht floating docks and a yacht owners decked pathway & seating area.
After studying the above references, our 3D specialists built the model using 3ds Max, and it looked like this:
The aerial view & close-up view of the model.
Exterior & Interior 3D Renderings
First, let’s get clear of what we were looking at. The exteriors of the project consists of two views: an aerial and a close-up view. As to the workload, aka the time needed for each view, the aerial view took longer than the other one.
The Aerial View
To demonstrate 100% of the original site, Leo sent us some drone photos for photo-composition for the aerial view.
Part of the site photos.
The landscape plan.
After discussion, we decided to go with the camera angle facing the sea. In the rendering draft, we particularly:
Embellish and add greenery to make a natural look of the barren hill because of fire;
Adjust the lighting according to the original photo;
Added materials and textures and make sure they are consistent with the tone of the original photo.
It didn’t take too long when we received Leo’s comment on the first round draft. As you can see, Leo gave us some comments on the placement of yachts and other minor adjustments.
Comments from Leo’s team.
Our 3D artists revised each details as in the comments. Here is the final result.
Leo loved the way we processed the hills behind. This aerial view is done.
The Hotel – Interior & Exterior View
Using the 3D model we’ve built, Leo pointed out two views he wanted: an interior view and an exterior close-up view.
Now, let’s have a look at the references Leo shared. In the references, our 3D artists were able to have a clear idea of the furniture plan and material board. This greatly helped the production process.
The process strictly followed the 3D rendering process: 3D modeling – material, texture & lighting – rendering & postproduction. After a couple of rounds of minor adjustments, the final images were complete.
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3D Floor Plan
Floor plans are an essential part of real estate, and 3D ones give the viewers a true feel for the look and layout of a space. This time, Leo was looking for a 3D floor plan.
According to the floor plan of the units, our 3D artists built the 3D floor plan and fit the proper furniture in different spaces.
The floor plan.
By adding realistic material and texture, also recreating the beach and sea, the 3D specialists created the first round draft:
Leo’s team came back with their comments rapidly. This time, the comments particularly focused on the bathroom:
Change the glass around the shower to a more vivid color;
Add a shower head inside the shower;
Swap the positions between the shower & the sinks-counter set, and adjust the size of each correspondingly.
As a result, we’ve fixed these issues in one day and delivered the final 3D floor plan!
The Final Results
Let’s show you the final renderings together. We’ve delivered them in 4K resolution as we promised. We believe once this resort is complete, it will be a memorable place for its visitors to enjoy unique holidays.
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This resort & beach club is planning to open to public on 2023. Our renders are now on their website for marketing. We are honored to create 3D works for this project. Leo and his team is very nice and well-organized, and we’re more than glad to hear that they’re satisfied with our service. Our team hope to work with them in the near future.
What do you think about this project? Looking for a reliable architectural visualizer to work with? Feel free to contact our professional architectural visualization studio, and we’ll bring your exciting project to life in a short turnaround time!
International Architectural scheme Design Competition for Food Safety and Health Industrial Park in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Competition organizer and competition agency
The organizer of this competition is Guangzhou Technology Finance Group Co., Ltd.
The competition agency of this project is Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
The competition is held in Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
The competition content
The contents of the competition is project architectural scheme design, including but not limited to: general layout planning and design, single building design, other professional design instructions, etc.Concept design and construction scheme design, winning a competition unit follow-up to guide the preliminary design and construction drawing design, full participation in the form of consulting all kinds of drawing design documents, deepen to the completion acceptance stage and is responsible for the whole design style, to ensure that the design concept, implemented and implementation effect, the design intent.
Competition method
The competition will be open to the public through the announcement of the competition on the website, open to accept the registration of domestic and foreign design companies.
Competition entry
Qualifications
The registered domestic design firm shall have the status of an independent legal person and provide a valid business license. The registered domestic design firm shall not be in the bad state of having its business license revoked, being ordered to close down or being revoked；An overseas design firm shall be a legally registered design firm in its locality and provide valid commercial registration certificate.Domestic and foreign units with the same person in charge or different units with holding or management relationship shall not register for the competition at the same time.(Note: Location refers to the main place where a company, enterprise or commercial company registers its business or establishes its office according to law)
The registered design firm shall meet the following requirements: If the registered design firm is a domestic design firm, it shall have class A qualification of professional design of construction industry (construction engineering)；If the registered design firm is an overseas design institution, it shall provide the design license issued by the competent government department of the country or region where it is located or the relevant industry organization.Copy of relevant qualification certificate and company seal should be provided.
This competition does not accept individual registration.
The registered design firm shall have the performance of independently undertaking architectural design projects from January 1, 2017 to the deadline for registration (copies of contracts and other supporting documents shall be provided, and the performance calculation time shall be subject to the signing of contracts).
The project manager has served as the chief architect of international or domestic representative city construction projects, and won international or domestic authoritative, well-known awards or honors.
The design company to be sent by the registered design firm must have personnel with architectural professional background. If the design team is not equipped with personnel with architectural professional background, the architectural consultant team shall be invited (personnel with architectural professional background shall provide relevant documents of professional background, including but not limited to certificates of educational background and certificates of architectural professional title. Copy of award certificate or relevant performance certificate affixed with company seal).
The project manager must directly participate in the whole process of design activities, and attend the presentation in person after winning the bid (if unable to attend due to the impact of the epidemic, video presentation can be adopted).The registered design firm shall ensure that the project chief and main designers always participate in the design work and shall not be replaced in the middle of the project.
In order to ensure that the project designer has an accurate understanding of the background and relevant requirements in China, the overseas design firm shall have at least one person who is fluent in Chinese.
Consortiums are accepted for this competition.But only cooperation (consortium) in accordance with article 2 of the qualification conditions of this announcement and one domestic design firm will be accepted. Independent registration of overseas design firms will not be accepted for this competition.
The preliminary service agency of the competition shall not participate in the competition. The preliminary service agency is Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Registration method
Registration method: Qualified design companies shall submit registration materials from July 20, 2022 to 17:00 July 29, 2022 to Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd, And scanned into electronic version and sent to hhm@giecc.com.cn. The contact person and address are listed in Article 13 of this announcement.The registration fee is 1000 yuan,and late registrations will not be accepted.
The registration document shall contain at least the following contents (in duplicate) :
Registration form；
Business license and qualification certificate；
Company profile；
Resume of project leader, representative works and awards certificate.
The registration documents shall be arranged in A4 format and bound into a book, with one original and three copies.The original copy shall be stamped with the company seal as indicated in the format document and the cross-page seal.
Send “Competition Document” and “Design Specification” to the applicant: within one day after receiving the application materials of the applicant and passing the examination of the competition agency, the applicant shall be sent by email to the applicant.
If less than 5 design firms have submitted the registration documents by the deadline, the organizer may decide whether to extend the registration period according to the actual situation.
Competition Period
The competition period of the design unit is from July 20, 2022 to August 30, 2022. The competition unit submits the design proposal on August 31, 2022, the design scheme will not be accepted after the deadline, and the specific time schedule is shown in the attached table of this announcement.
Project funding
The project investment is about 1.30134 billion yuan, all of which will be invested by the organizers of the competition and the project funds have been settled.
On the premise of ensuring the design quality, the design unit should follow the principles of functional application, reasonable standard and reasonable economy to carry out the design work, implement the design quota, to ensure that the project estimate budget does not break through the quota target of the proposed project cost.
Reviewing method
The organizer entrusts the competition agency to organize the bid evaluation committee to examine the qualification of the applicants according to the design deliverables submitted in the “Competition Documents”.After passing the qualification examination, the bid evaluation committee will conduct scheme evaluation, and the design firms that pass the qualification examination will be voted by secret ballot. Finally, 5 design schemes will be selected as the winning schemes and the Bid Evaluation Report will be formed.
The competition organizer will set up a bidding committee and hold a bidding meeting, and the bidding evaluation committee will recommend 5 winning schemes as candidates to the bidding committee.
The bidding deciding committee shall evaluate all the bidding candidates according to the provisions of the “Competition Documents”, recommend the winning bidder and issue the Bidding Report according to the evaluation vote, and request the competition organizers to check and confirm the winning result.The winning design firm will participate in the deepening of the design.
The design unit of the winning project is entitled to the concept design right, the scheme design right, the guidance of the preliminary design, in the way of consultation to participate in the drawing of all kinds of design documents, deepening to the completion acceptance stage and responsible for the overall design scheme style check, to ensure that the design concept, effect, design intention is implemented and realized.
Rewards and Economic Compensation
The winning project will be awarded RMB 300,000 (about US$44,300), and the winning organization will sign a design contract with the competition organizer；Integration and deepening of the competition plan shall be carried out according to the requirements of the organizer. After submitting the integration and deepening results that meet the requirements, an additional integration and deepening fee of RMB 250,000 (about US$36,900) can be obtained on the basis of this fee.That is, the selected organization will be awarded 550,000 yuan (about US$81,300) in total.
The competition organizer or organizer designated unit with the following is not the winning project compensation contracts respectively pay economic compensation amount after (including taxes, design results using cost, design cost, intellectual property, cooperate with relevant project communication conference organizers all expenses such as travel expenses) :
For the 2nd to 5th winning candidates, each participating an comapny (consortium regarded as one participating company) will be entitled to a economic compensation of RMB 100,000 (about US$14,700)；
All the documents of the winner and the runners-up 2-5, including but not limited to all kinds of drawings and document data, are exclusively for the use of this project, and the intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright) of the documents involved belong to the organizer of the competition.
The competition sponsor or the organization designated by the competition sponsor and the winning bidder have the right to refer to and use part of all the design results that have obtained economic compensation in the implementation plan.
If the competition fails, no economic compensation will be paid to any unit.
The cost compensation of the design competition shall be paid in RMB, which shall be settled by the competition organizer or the organization designated by the competition organizer and the participating organizations.
Notes:
The participant whose design results are deemed invalid by the evaluation committee and whose design results are ranked no. 5 (excluding no. 5) will not be compensated for any competition costs.
The cost of this design competition economic compensation includes what happened during the period of participating companies in the design competition all expenses (including but not limited to design cost, production cost, design research cost, cooperate with related project communication conference design copyright fees, travel expenses, relevant taxes, etc.), no longer pay any other fees.
Design competition deposit
No design competition deposit is required for this project.
Other matters
The Competition shall be governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China, and the competition work and all documents shall be governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China.In case no settlement can be reached through negotiation, any dispute shall be submitted to Guangzhou Arbitration Commission for arbitration.The arbitration award shall be final and binding upon all parties.
In case of any discrepancy between this announcement and the official Competition Document, the official Competition Document shall prevail.
In case of any discrepancy between the Announcement in English and Chinese, the Announcement in Chinese shall prevail.
All registration materials will not be returned.All registration documents and deliverables must be in Chinese.
Overseas and domestic companies must be authorized by the Headquarters to participate in this competition.
The competition agency service fee shall be paid by the selected design company,
the selected design firm shall pay the competition agency service fee of RMB 50,000 only in one lump sum before receiving the Notice of selection.
File submission method
The competition period is from July 20, 2022 to August 30, 2022, and the participants will submit the design proposal on August 31, 2022. The design proposal will not be accepted after the deadline. Please refer to the attached schedule of this announcement for details.
Contact Person and Address.
The competition agency: Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Address: RM 903,9/F,Wuyang Xincheng Plaza,111 Siyou New Rd,Guangzhou
Contact person: Ms Hong
Contact number: 020-87376439
FAX: 020-87376380
Email: hhm@giecc.com.cn
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
