Archinect - News 2024-12-22T14:11:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/7616497/skidmore-owings-merrill-s-baietan-master-plan-awarded Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Baietan Master Plan Awarded Alexander Walter 2011-05-25T17:49:00-04:00 >2012-10-01T13:05:01-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/il/ilfgody6yr6xldze.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The AIA San Francisco chapter has recently honored SOM's Baietan Master Plan with a 2011 Merit Award for Urban Design. The Baietan Master Plan addresses a 35-square kilometer portion of the Southern Chinese Pearl River Delta that stretches between the city of Guangzhou, with its 10.3 million inhabitants, and city of Foshan, a smaller city of 5.4 million people. Growth in the Delta region has allowed the two cities to begin to merge into one mega region.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>