Thu Thiem New Urban Area Competition

The Detailed Master Plan and Urban Design Guidelines for Thu Thiem New Urban Area represents a comprehensive 20-year vision for the peninsula as a dynamic mixed-use urban district comprised of housing, commercial, office, cultural, institutional, and open space uses. The plan reflects a unique Vietnamese lifestyle - dynamic street activity, residential and commercial structures close to water - while creating a visionary and contemporary environment appropriate for a 21st century urban district. Thu Thiem is envisioned as a world-class financial center, a sustainable development with a major landscape network, and a world-wide tourist destination for Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

The Competition will elicit the most sustainable, creative, functional, and exciting ideas from domestic and international designers to enhance the development goals at Thu Thiem and to provide all of Ho Chi Minh City with a stunning, publicly accessible waterfront.

The Competition will contribute significantly to the design and implementation of first-phase public infrastructure works at Thu Thiem, currently underway.

The Competition will result in the selection of an outstanding and visionary proposal for the Central Plaza, Crescent Park, and Pedestrian Bridge for future implementation at Thu Thiem and will reflect a uniquely Vietnamese cultural identity as well as the representing the latest trends in sustainability, public space, landscape architecture, architecture, and engineering.

The International Design Competition for Thu Thiem New Urban Area: Central Plaza, Crescent Park, and Saigon River Pedestrian Bridge is an open, two-stage Competition for qualified professional architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and engineering firms or teams. The Competition encourages entries from joint ventures (between Vietnamese companies or between Vietnamese companies and foreign companies).

The first stage will be anonymous, open and unpaid. Six (6) shortlisted firms will be selected and paid to continue (anonymously) with the second stage. A winner will be selected from the six (6) shortlisted submissions. The winner will have the right to negotiate the Design Contract with the Competition Sponsor for development of the project. (If the winner is internationally based, they will be required to select a local consultant to be a subcontractor in a supporting role).

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