湖滨国际名品街再获殊荣。近日，ULI（美国全球土地利用学会）2005年度全球卓越奖揭晓，我区湖滨国际名品街项目力挫群雄，荣获大奖。这是湖滨国际名品街获得的第三项国际大奖，奖杯将落户湖滨特色街区喷泉广场。湖滨一期名品街工程自2005年竣工并开街以来，经过不到两年的运行，土地利用、建筑设计风格、经济业态、顾客流量等各项指标均获广泛认可，综合评估达到预期效果，引起美国全球土地利用学会等有关方面的关注。经亚太地区初选，入围全球角逐，最终获得大奖。ULI奖项，是全球土地综合利用领域最权威的奖项。在此之前，我国仅上海新天地项目于2003年获此殊荣。

ULI-Urban Land Institude 美国都市与土地协会
2005 Awards for Excellence:2005年度优秀奖
Asia Pacific亚太区

奖项简介：
One of the important means by which ULI encourages excellence and best practises in our industry is the ULI Awards for Excellence Programme. For the past 27 years, submittals of worthy projects from all over the world have been reviewed by an Awards for Excellence jury.
In 2005, the Awards for Excellence programme becomes truly global when ULI Asia began an awards programme to parallel those in the Americas and in Europe/Africa. Help continue this programme’s success with entries of projects and programmes located in Asia and Australia.

Winners：获奖名单

Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia

Hangzhou Waterfront
Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Marunouchi Building
Tokyo, Japan

Pier 6/7, Walsh Bay
Sydney, Australia

The Loft
Singapore

杭州湖滨项目详述：
Hangzhou Waterfront
Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Those familiar with the Embarcadero district in San Francisco will immediately understand the significance of the Hangzhou waterfront development. Like the Embarcadero, Hangzhou’s Hubin district—the city’s major waterfront district on the eastern shore of West Lake—was cut off from the lakefront by a freeway. Unlike the Embarcadero Freeway, however, Hangzhou’s waterfront highway was on grade, and the lakefront had seen no development. To capture the lakefront for urban use, then, was not merely a matter of removing the highway, but also of planning for development that could maximize the lakefront’s potential as a recreational and commercial amenity.

Hangzhou, an important tourist destination in China, is 180 kilometers (112 mi) southwest of Shanghai. It has served ancient emperors as a capital city and is still a cultural center. To the Chinese, Hangzhou’s West Lake is as familiar an icon as the Great Wall or the Forbidden City. Marco Polo visited Hangzhou in the late 13th century and called the city “beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world.” For the Chinese, a pilgrimage to Hangzhou is an essential life experience. Of the 30 million tourists who visit West Lake each year, 2 million are foreigners.

Hubin Road, a multilane freeway that grew out of scale as Hangzhou began participating in China’s “economic miracle,” left only a narrow strip of lakefront land available for public use and benefited only the owners of property facing the water. The Hangzhou government formed a public/private partnership, the Hangzhou Hubin Commerce & Tourism Company, tasked with making the waterfront more of a tourist amenity. The SWA Group of Houston and Zhejiang South Architecture Design Company, a local firm, were invited to produce a master plan. The government was to bear 60 percent of the development costs, with private entities contributing the balance.

The first obstacle to be corrected was Hubin Road. Through-traffic was redirected to a four-lane, 1.5-kilometer-long (0.9 mi) tunnel under the lakebed approximately 40 meters (130 ft) from the shoreline, which opened the road for use as a multipurpose, pedestrian-friendly boulevard. A 650-meter-long by 40-meter-wide (2,132x131 ft) tree-lined park was designed to mediate between the shoreline and the new boulevard. “City streams” weaving through the district were constructed, recalling the natural streams that once coursed through Hubin and directing pedestrians toward the lake.

Development in the Hubin district totaling 53,950 square meters (580,732 sf) of commercial space has occurred in response to Hangzhou’s waterfront improvements. A lakeside international hotel and entertainment venues are located at the boulevard’s center. Not counting the lakeside linear park, public open space within the developed blocks east of Hubin Road occupies 27 percent of the land area.

The Hangzhou waterfront project is an outstanding example of a public/private partnership formed to advance a public good and provide opportunities for private real estate development. Its success has been noted by cities across the nation and is being studied for emulation.

相关国内报道：中国建筑艺术网
ULI Awards for Excellence大奖是国际上公认的房地产界最高荣誉的奖项。2005年也是该奖项第一次设立专门针对亚太地区建筑作品的评选。
2005年5月15日，ULI在上海宣布，杭州湖滨项目与另外4个项目一起获得2005年度ULI Awards for Excellence亚太区大奖。

相关国外报道：
Urban Land Institute Announces Five Winners for the 2005 Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition; Winners Announced in Shanghai during ULI Study Tour of China
SHANGHAI (May 16, 2005) — Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific competition. The Awards for Excellence is widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.

This is the first ULI awards program targeted specifically to projects in the Asia Pacific region. Twenty-three projects in five countries were narrowed to nine finalists, from which the winners were chosen.

The competition is part of the Institute’s Awards for Excellence program, established in 1979, which is based on ULI’s guiding principle that the achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognized and rewarded. ULI’s Awards for Excellence recognize the full development process of a project, not just its architecture or design. The criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial success.

The 2005 ULI Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific winners (owners and/or developers in parentheses) are:

· Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia;(Federation Square Management) Overcoming a controversial planning and implementation history, Federation Square has become a popular and commercially successful civic square for the city of Melbourne and the state of Victoria. This public/private initiative has built over an active railyard a 3.6-hectare cultural destination that can accommodate 35,000 people in an open-air amphitheatre and provides 44,000 square metres of commercial and cultural space.

· Hangzhou Waterfront, Hangzhou PRC (Hangzhou Hubin Commerce & Tourism Company, LTD) The city of Hangzhou has put West Lake---storied in Chinese poetry and legend---on the international map with a large-scale public improvement of its scenic waterfront. The lively mixed-use development and pedestrian oriented spaces have given its citizens a new amenity that is environmentally sensitive while encouraging new high-quality development.

· The Loft, Singapore;(Loft Condominium Pte Ltd/CapitaLand Residential Limited) The Loft is a model for enlightened development practises brought to bear on a hilly, triangular, 0.75-hectare parcel in the desirable Nassim Hill area of Singapore. Modern architecture combines with the conservation of ten century-old Tembusu trees; and innovative glazing and sun-shading systems, glass-enclosed interconnecting bridges, terraces, and granite walls are features of a central courtyard garden that soften the density of the 77 condominiums.

· Marunouchi Building, Tokyo, Japan;(Mitsubishi Estate Company, Ltd.) The Marunouchi Building was a landmark building in 1923, when it was Japan’s first modern office building. Today, with the addition of a 50-story tower atop its original five-story podium, the Marunouchi Building resumes its landmark status, setting a new high standard for historic preservation, upgrading the character and value of its central Tokyo neighbourhood, attracting new nightlife and weekend activity, and providing an example for the revitalisation of CBDs everywhere.

· Pier 6/7, Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia;(Walsh Bay Partnership Mirvac/Transfield j.v.) In Sydney's Walsh Bay, within the footprint of the former finger wharf number 6/7, the development partnership built 140 luxury condominiums, 387 parking spaces under the water-line, and 49 boat moorings. The complex---the only known purpose-built pier of its kind in the world---is the crown jewel of the entire Walsh Bay development district and is a model for creative re-use of the waterfront.

Over the years, the Awards for Excellence program has evolved from recognition of one development in North America to an international competition with multiple winners, including the Heritage Award, which recognizes projects at least 25 years old that set the highest standards for excellence. Last year, the program added the ULI Awards for Excellence: Europe. Throughout the program’s history all types of projects have been recognized for their excellence, including office, residential, recreational, urban/mixed-use, industrial/office park, commercial/retail, new community, rehabilitation and public projects.

The 2005 Asia Pacific winners were selected by a jury of renowned land use development and design experts: Jury Chair C.Y. Leung, chairman, DTZ Debenham Tie Leung Limited, Hong Kong; Sean Chuan-Sheng Chiao, regional director, principal, EDAW Urban Design Ltd., Hong Kong; James M. DeFrancia, president, Lowe Enterprises Community Development, Inc., Aspen, Colorado; Akio Makiyama, chairman, Forum for Urban Development, Tokyo, Japan; Edmund N.S. Tie, executive chairman, DTZ Debenham Tie Leung (SEA) Pte. Ltd., Singapore; Peter Verwer, chief executive officer, Property Council of Australia, Sydney; Stephany N. Yu, president and CEO,Shanghai Luting Group Ltd., Shanghai, China.

ULI Chairman Harry Frampton announced the Asia Pacific award winners May 15 in Shanghai during the ULI Asia Study Tour. “I am very honored to announce the winners in the first Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific. These awards are a reflection of the significance of the Asia Pacific region in the world, and the projects exemplify best practices in designing and building cities. We have much to learn from our counterparts in Asia,” Frampton said.

During the 10-day study tour, which concludes May 23, a delegation of approximately 40 ULI leaders and trustees is visiting three cities in China -- Xi'an and Beijing, in addition to Shanghai. The group will meet with industry leaders, including members of ULI Asia, to gain insights into the land use opportunities and challenges presented by China's rapidly growing metropolitan markets. The delegation will also tour highly acclaimed development projects with key members of the development teams, and experience China's incredible culture and history.

The Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide responsible leadership in the use of land in order to enhance the total environment. Each year, the Institute honors an extraordinary community builder through the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. Established in 1936, the Institute has more than 25,000 members representing all aspects of land use and development disciplines.