The Cultural Affairs Bureau is preparing exhibits for the Macau Exhibition at the 7th Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2017 in December.
Submissions for Macau proposals closed in early August, after which submissions were forwarded to a jury commission for review and selection. The jury was composed of experts and scholars from Shenzhen and Macau.
The judging criteria included the proposal’s adherence to the theme, the emphasis on Macau characteristics, originality, and feasibility and practicality of the plan.
Coming in as first was Companhia de Arquitectura JWCC Limitada, who submitted a project entitled “City Magnified: Re-discovering of a Diminishing Urban Identity”, and will be responsible for planning the Macau Exhibition at the Bi-City Biennale.
The second prize was awarded to CURB — Centre for Architecture and Urbanism with the project “Macau, City of Villages – Diversity From the Bottom Up”, and the third prize went to Cita Planeamento e Design Lda. for the project “Reconstruct!(Hang Vo Tong!ذThe Macau Experience.”
This year, the Bi-City Biennale will explore the theme, “Cities, Grow in Difference,” and will examine the issue of urban growth and transformation, focusing especially on the urban landscape, unique culture and economic phenomena caused by the rapid urbanization in the Pearl River Delta region.
The first Biennale was held in Shenzhen in 2005 and Hong Kong was invited to collaborate in 2007. The Biennale then became a unique dual-city event, as it is the only biennale in the world dedicated exclusively to a fixed theme: the city. Macau has been invited to participate for the three editions held in 2013, 2015 and 2017.
