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Design
Competition for West Kowloon Reclamation
(ACE
Paper 10/2000)
For information
PURPOSE
This
Paper informs Members of the details of the Design Competition
for West Kowloon Reclamation (WKR).
BACKGROUND
2.In
his 1999 Policy Address, the Chief Executive announced the
plan to develop a major world-class Performance Venue on WKR
and to hold an open competition to enlist the help of local
and overseas professionals to create a new look for the Victoria
Harbour (including the waterfront at WKR).
THE
DESIGN COMPETITION
3.The
primary objective of the Design Competition is to enlist local
and overseas expertise to come up with an overall development
concept for turning WKR into an arts, cultural and entertainment
district that is aesthetically attractive, technically feasible
and financially viable. The opportunity would also be taken
to create an impressive waterfront that would be in harmony
with the waterfront developments that we have planned for
Central and Wanchai. Through these developments, we would
create a new skyline for the Victoria Harbour, provide the
necessary venues for enabling Hong Kong to become an events
capital of Asia and make our Victoria Harbour one that is
glamorous, inviting and that our future generations would
take pride in.
4.The
Design Competition would be open to all and the Government
would promote it both locally and outside Hong Kong through
printed and electronic media, as well as the internet. There
will be no pre-qualification criteria.
5.In
launching the Design Competition, a detailed Competition Brief
would be issued to all interested parties. It would set out
clearly the arts and cultural policy objectives that we wish
to achieve through the development of WKR, as follows -
| (i) |
encourage
multiple development of our cultural scene and promote
creativity in arts and culture; |
| (ii) |
bring
in more international expertise and professionalism in
the management of cultural facilities; and |
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introduce
private sector participation in the rendering of cultural
and leisure services for the community. |
6.The
Competition Brief will also prescribe a list of core cultural
and arts facilities that we expect each proposed scheme to
provide. Participants would be required to provide a business
and management plan to substantiate how their proposed scheme
could achieve the arts and cultural policy objectives that
we have set. Participants would also be given the flexibility
to propose other uses from a list of optional facilities (which
include, among other things, commercial developments) but
they have to justify why such facilities are necessary, whether
they are complementary to the core facilities; and how they
would contribute to the financial viability of their proposed
scheme. See Annex for details of the
core and optional facilities.
7.The
Government has decided that there is no automatic linkage
between the Design Competition and the eventual development
rights of WKR. Winners of the Competition would be awarded
a respectable prize money. The Government will not be bound
in any way to develop WKR in accordance with the winning design.
DELIVERABLES
8.The
Design Competition requires participants to produce the following
deliverables :
- an
overall land-use Master Layout Plan for WKR with broad assessment
of its technical feasibility;
- an
architectural concept for all developments on WKR; and
- a
business plan on the financial viability of the proposed
development and its future maintenance.
TIMING
9.The
Government aims to launch the Design Competition in April
2000. Participants will be given 3 months to prepare their
submissions. All entries will be initially assessed by a Technical
Panel to be chaired by the Director of Planning. The Technical
Panel will shortlist 5 entries for the final consideration
of an Executive Panel. The assessment process will take about
2 months. It is anticipated that the result of the Design
Competition will be available in October 2000.
PUBLIC
CONSULTATION
10.The
Government has informally consulted and taken into account
the views of key stakeholders, professional bodies, academics
and green groups in formulating details of the Design Competition
as set out above. In addition, Members of LegCo, Land and
Building Advisory Committee and Town Planning Board have recently
been briefed.
WAY
FORWARD
11.Subject
to the outcome of the Design Competition and the proposals
in the winning design, the Government will decide on how the
development rights should be disposed. Whether the Government
will ultimately adopt the winning design for the future development
of WKR will depend on the extent to which the design concerned
could meet our policy objective. If necessary, the Government
may conduct a further study to make amendments to the winning
design and/or verify its feasibility and financial viability.
Planning
and Lands Bureau
March 2000
Annex
CORE
FACILITIES
- A
world-class performance venue with seating capacity of 1,800
to 2,200 as focus of the whole area
- A
large versatile multi-purpose open plaza with service facilities
to accommodate about 6,000 to 8,000 people
- A
number of theatres and studios of various seating capacity
- A
museum complex comprising facilities such as a museum of
moving image, a museum of contemporary art and a children's
museum
- An
arts village containing workshops, studio spaces and exhibition/sales
area, training and practicing ground for artists and designers
OPTIONAL
FACILITIES (following are examples only)
- A
multi-purpose venue with seating capacity of about 35,000
to 60,000 for holding large-scale mass activities
- An
arts market
- Themed
entertainment development, such as retail and dining facilities,
skating rink, games centres, a cinema complex and/or an
IMAX cinema
- Hotels/service
apartments/residential development
- Grade
A offices
- A
cruise pier for waterfront leisure activities
- A
helipad
- Other
uses that are complementary to arts, cultural and entertainment
facilities
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