PLUS URBIA DESIGN HONORED WITH 10TH ANNUAL KINPAN AWARD CHINA

MIAMI STUDIO RECOGNIZED FOR SONGHUA

 LAKE RESORT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

PlusUrbia Design has been honored with the 10th annual KINPAN award as the architectural design team for the Songhua Lake Ski Resort. The Coconut Grove-based studio was the designer of the development named Best Resort and Most Popular Resort Award in China.

Organized by Times House Magazine and The Architectural Society of China’s Habitat Environment Committee, the KINPAN Awards are among the most influential property design award programs in China. Projects are selected based on quality, aesthetics, habitat environment and value.

PlusUrbia worked with China’s leading developer, Vanke, on the master plan and architectural design of the town center that serves as the nucleus to the large resort. A thriving mixed-use town center with ground floor retail and housing above, adds a significant contribution to the resort’s infrastructure and high level of service, praised as “the best in China” by  Deputy Secretary General of the China Ski Association, An Linbin.
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PlusUrbia set out to design a ski resort that goes beyond a cluster of buildings in the landscape. The firm understands that the craft of creating the proper space and density between buildings is as important as the design of the buildings themselves. 

Successful resorts feature pedestrian streets activated at ground level with commercial and ski-related retail.  The Lake Songhua Resort has this activity, driven by residences and hotels occupying the upper floors of each building.  The dense urban cluster minimizes the built footprint, which reduces the environmental impact. 

The town center’s main building houses the ski rental center, clubhouse, restaurant and VIP room on its ground floor. The street-front structure that houses the sales center for Vanke features a single slanted roof with a double-height ceiling for a more dramatic effect. A clean, modern Alpine style defines the building that serves as the bus terminal for transit connections to nearby Jilin, a city of 27 million served by major rail routes. Human scale is the defining element on a trio of buildings mixed-use buildings.  

PlusUrbia master planned the site and designed the architecture to work in harmony with the contours of the natural terrain, minimizing the impact of development on the site that features Qing Mountain, Lake Songhua and about seven square kilometers of nature spread across a valley and saving costs for the developer. 

The entire KINPAN/Songhua award-winning team includes:

Development Team: Jilin Songhua, international ski resort development company

Architecture Design Team: Plusurbia Design in U.S.

Construction Document Team: Jilin Architecture, construction college architecture firm

Landscape Design Team:  Design Workshop Inc. in U.S.

Construction Document for Landscape Team: Tianjin Boya, landscape design firm

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