The Opening Ceremony of Brewery Arts Festival and Architectural Exhibition (Luohu•2021) is a plan to fulfill the future vision for the comprehensive improvement of the industrial heritage of Kingway Brewery’s urban renewal unit. The project has attracted much attention as Shenzhen’s first case where urban renewal contributes to industrial heritage preservation and activated renovation on land.
Since the release of the bidding announcement in May 2019, a total of 31 bidding applicants had registered for the bidding by the registration deadline on June 1, 2019. By the deadline for the submission of the preliminary qualification review documents on June 11, eligible documents from 27 applicants had been received. Through the preliminary qualification review, five domestic and foreign excellent design/curation teams had been shortlisted as official bidders, including URBANUS Architecture & Design, SUD Architectes, Nansha Original Design Enterprise, People’s Architecture Office Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen CM design Co., Ltd..
The project bid evaluation meeting was held at Grand Hyatt Shenzhen on August 6, 2019. A bid evaluation committee comprising seven experts, including Meng Jianmin, Wang Weiren, Huang Juzheng, Li Cheng, Li Degeng, Zhu Xiongyi and Huang Cong, had a thorough discussion and strict review after listening attentively to all participating teams’ presentations on their “design + curation” proposal and answers to questions.
