Chengdu Future City, Southwest Chinese Masterplan, Architecture Competition Winners, Images
Chengdu Future City in Southwest China
4 Feb 2021
Chengdu Future City
Architecture: gmp – von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects
Location: Chengdu, China

gmp wins competition for Chengdu Future City – new high-tech development in southwest China
In a two-stage urban design competition for the new high-tech Chengdu Future City development, the masterplan and the design for the railway station project submitted by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects (gmp) have been successful.

The site area of about 460 hectares will be developed to include research institutes, an university, offices, retail, and housing in close proximity to each other. The starting point will be the railway station, Futian Station, which, in the first building phase, will be redesigned and developed by gmp to form the urban center. The design of the university has been assigned to the Dutch practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
The development area for Chengdu Future City is 50 kilometers distant from the city of Chengdu in the southwest of China and only one stop away from the new Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. This proximity to the airport makes the area an ideal location for a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), an urban development concept in which all urban functions are concentrated in a high-density development around a central public transport hub. This results in s...