Incheon: Sustainable City Master Plan
3 September 2009 - Posted by Bert Aldridge - 0 Comments
Yes, we're tweeting about this too, but if we blog about it, we get to include images! (below the fold). Foster+Partners, the team that imagined and design Masdar City, has joined forces with PHA and Mobility in Chain to win a competition for the design of the Master Plan for the Incheon Free Economic Zone in South Korea, an island near Seoul.
Incheon will be bigger than Masdar, but like Masdar the concept serves two purposes: 1) to create a quality of life for its inhabitants using sustainable construction, energy and transport systems, and 2) to create a hub for R&D in clean tech systems and alos provide the ideal testing ground.
Foster+Partners are globally renowned, for many other amazing projects, including the Hearst Tower in New York City, (word to the wise: you can get a great subsidized lunch in the foyer food court if you know some who works there...).
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