KEY HIGHLIGHT
● 2 projects receive Grand Award and Merit Award at GBA Urban Design Awards 2026, celebrating the design excellence of Aedas-designed projects.
Aedas receives 2 recognitions from The Greater Bay Area (GBA) Urban Design Awards. The awards recognize excellence in urban design related projects in the GBA and facilitate collaboration and exchange among urban designs, planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, surveyors and other urban design professionals.
1. Yulong Urban Design International Consultation and Design Development – Shenzhen, PRC (Jointly-designed by Aedas Executive Director Leon Liang and UPDIS) – Grand Award – Professional (Planned Project) category
The design centres on a vertically integrated, multifunctional system, creating innovative industrial spaces with broader lower levels and narrower upper levels. This approach brings industries together vertically to create a circular, symbiotic ecosystem. By integrating diverse functions into blue-green spaces and extending natural landscapes into building interiors, the design creates spaces that connect people with nature.
2. Detailed Urban Design for Luohu District Sungang National Rail Depot – Shenzhen, PRC (Jointly-designed by Aedas Executive Director Leon Liang, UPDIS and Nikken Sekkei Ltd) – Merit Award – Professional (Planned Project) category
With a redesigned public space framework, an upgraded transport network and integrated civic amenities, the project reconnects areas once divided by the railway. It establishes a new development framework around Honghu Park (Central Park) in northern Luohu, transforming the long-neglected former rail yard into an accessible, age-inclusive public hub that draws people and activity from across the Greater Bay Area.
