2009 ASLA Professional Awards
Honor Award, General Design

Beijing Olympic Forest Park

Beijing, China
Firm: Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute
Client: Beijing International Olympic Forest Park Development Co., Ltd.

Site Plan

Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute
This project was planned for the Olympics, but planted for the future. The landscape architect had an incredible opportunity to create something astounding on a monumental scale and they took it. This will transform Beijing as Central Park did New York City.

Awards Jury

Beijing Olympic Forest Park is the organic component of the Beijing Olympic Green. Constructed for the 2008 event, its long-term target is to form a sustainable environment and a multi-functional public park. The design merges traditional Chinese landscape arts with ecological techniques to form an urban green lung and public recreation. Continuous evaluations of the Park's systems will provide a source of information for the future design of ecological landscapes in urban contexts.

Principal in Charge
Jie Hu

Chief Designers
Jie Hu, Yixia Wu
Lu Lushan

Main Design Team Members
Yan Zhang, Hui Liu, Wei Li, Hailun Liu, Xiaoming Sun, Chunqiu Zhao, Jiazhong Li, Bin You, Mengcheng Zou, Chunjiao Li, Chuanqi Zhang, Xia Chen, Xiao Feng, Yufan Zhu, Yujun Yao, Jie Zhang, Zhengmin Gao, Andreas Luka, Angela Silbermann, Verena Fischbach, David Pasgrimaud, Shira Szabo

Consultants
Sasaki Associates, Inc. (USA)
Zhaozhen Meng, Ji'ning Chen, Zhi Yin, Wei Liang, Xin Yuan, Laurie Olin

Experts
Xin Tan, Muqi Duan, Dexiang Li, Youfeng An, Shuangxi Yin, Yunlong Su, Li Dong, Xueming Ni, Zhandong Li, Fusheng Zhao, Fan Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Zhengwang Zhang, Zonghao Cao, Delin Qian, Ron Herderson, Betsy DamonÑ

Cooperation Companies and Institutes
China Research Center of Landscape Architecture Design and Planning
Beijing Top-Sense Landscape Design Limited Co.
Beijing Beilin Landscape Architecture Institute Co. Ltd
Beijing Institute of Landscape and Traditional Architecture Design and Research
Beijing Zhongyuan Engineering Design & Consulting Co.
China Urban Construction Design & Research Institute
Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute:
Branch of Urban and Architectural Ecology Research
Branch of Environment and Infrastructure
Branch of Lighting Design & Research
Branch of Transport Planning & Design
Branch of Acoustics Design & Research
Branch of Public Security Design & Research

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