The awards ceremony of an international contest to design the landscaping alongside Da Nang’s Han River recently took place in the city.

Municipal People’s Committee Chairman Huynh Duc Tho (4th right) and the second prize-winners

In the end, there were no first prize winners.  The ‘Netsong’ and ‘Green Corridor, Green Connections, Green Programme’ projects won second prizes of 575 million VND each.  ‘Netsong’ was created by a joint venture between Cpg Consultants, Landscape Jardins Asia, Consulus, and Glopan, whilst the latter was developed by a joint venture between Omg-Designers, Boydens, Hydroscan, Huni Architect, and Ney&Partners.

Two third prizes of 230 million VND each were given out to the ‘Weave 5’ and the ‘Humanism, Identity and Ecology’ projects.  The former was created by Niken Sekkei Civil Engneering Ltd, whilst the latter was developed by a joint venture between Sas Deso Architects - Urbanists - Phytollab, S A Hydratec, Tedi South, and Atek Consultants Corp.

The ‘Green Corridor, Green Connections, Green Programme’ project

The prize winners were determined by the contest’s judging board.

In addition, the developers of ‘Netsong’ also received the 115 million VND cash prize for receiving the highest number of public votes. 

For further details about the prize winners, please visit the contest’s official website at http://hanriver.viar.gov.vn/vn/ in Vietnamese, and http://hanriver.viar.gov.vn/en/ in English.

Architect Jimmy Tsen Chee Nam, the Director of Cpg Viet Nam, said that he and the other contestants wanted to make Da Nang a special and typical city of the world in the future.  The city will boast its own special characteristics and meet international standards, with the Han River being an important landmark.

Architect Do Nguyen Dung, one of the developers of the ‘Netsong’ project, noted that the city authorities and the local residents have made great efforts to portray Da Nang as very different from other Vietnamese localities.  This had inspired him and his teammates to turn their design ideas into reality.

Architect Phan Quoc Dung from Landscape Jardins Asia remarked that Da Nang is his beloved hometown.  He, therefore, would like to make a greater contribution to promoting an urban transformation in the city, with modernisation in combination with enhancing the preservation of the city’s traditional cultural values.