Planning and Urban Design Asia Pacific
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About Gensler Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 44 offices and over 3,800 professionals in Asia, UK, and the Americas. The firm has over 3,500 active clients in virtually every industry and delivers projects as large as a city and as small as a task light for an individual’s desk. Gensler is distinguished by an unwavering commitment to our clients’ success. Everything we design, from the innovations we imagine to the value we deliver, reflects our clients’ priorities and their opportunities for sustained success.
20 Practice Areas
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Aviation + Transportation
Brand Design
Commercial Office Buildings
Consulting
Creative Media
Education
Financial Services
Headquarters
Hospitality
Mission Critical Facilities
Mixed Use + Entertainment
Planning + Urban Design
Product Design
Professional Services Firms
Retail
Retail Centers
Science + Technology
Sports
Workplace
Health + Wellness
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Years Gensler has been in business
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Countries where our work can be found
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Locations Worldwide
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Presence In Asia Our 8 Asia Offices
SHANGHAI Gensler Shanghai office is the largest and most diverse of Gensler’s Asia offices and serves as the firm’s Regional Headquarters. The Shanghai team is the core architectural and design team for a large number of projects in China and throughout Asia.
Bangalore Supported by practice area experts from various Gensler worldwide offices, the Bangalore office delivers some of the most complex projects in our Asia portfolio, from innovative highrise towers to airports, from educational facilities to healthcare institutions.
BEIJING With a mixed team of local and international master planners, architects and interior designers, the Beijing office is working on a diverse range of projects: from master planning, architecture and interiors. Fully operational since 2008, the Beijing office has played a major role in Gensler Asia’s growth with landmark projects.
Bangkok Being the firm's newest office in the region, Bangkok is building its reputation as a strong and dependable client liaison both for global accounts entering the Thai market and for regional accounts looking for opportunities to invest outside of Asia.
HONG KONG Our Hong Kong office has one of the oldest track records in the Asia region as early as the 1990’s when our international clients began to expand into Asian markets. Currenlty, Planning and Urban Design, Mixed Use Development and Interiors for Workplace projects have been the focus of the office.
Singapore Singapore is currently a small office collaborating with other Gensler offices in Asia and the US to deliver projects throughout the South East Asia region including master planning, mixed-use and commerical office buildings in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Manila and workplace projects for our global accounts.
TOKYO Established 1993 to primary serve the global clients in Japan market, now theTokyo office has substantially broadened
Seoul Gensler serves the Korea market with a creative blend of internationally and locally provided services that have become a hallmark of the Gensler team approach to delivering projects around the world.
its service areas and is working on wide range of interior projects including retail, hospitality, and workplace as well as brand design and corporate identity development.
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TOKYO
singapore
Hong Kong
bangkok
beijing
Seoul
Shanghai
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Cultural Investment Strategy
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2012 Beishancun Heritage Master Plan Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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Planning and Urban Design
Mission
Global-local/Innovation
Trusted Advisors/Integrity/Collaboration
Gensler’s Planning and Urban Design practice is shaping the future of new and re-imagined cities by creating plans around the world, from Hong Kong to Dubai, from Shanghai to Las Vegas.
Gensler’s Planning and Urban Design practice is highly experienced in working with varying stakeholders to understand their hopes as well as their concerns – then addressing them by designing dynamic and lasting places with real community value.
Smart Design When considering the opportunities for a new site or city plan, Gensler’s planning and urban design practice takes into account journey times, access to green spaces, the infrastructure of local shops, employment, schools, transport and health and leisure facilities, as well as the physical and digital infrastructure and sustainability of the site.
Whether next door or on the other side of the world, new development can impact the prosperity and sustainability of businesses, cities, regions, even entire countries. Our global expertise is an advantage to designing and delivering visions that harnesses the full potential of a site or community, informed by our involvement in leading ideas in development worldwide.
Global & Local Reach/Sharing Expertise Gensler’s worldwide team of regional and urban planners partners with cities, corporate clients, institutions and development partnerships to create new and revitalized communities at varying scales – articulating visionary ideas as well as making them possible.
Hong Kong Office One Wellington Street 21st Floor, Central Hong Kong, SAR +852 3976 8000 Our Hong Kong office has one of the oldest track records in the Asia region as early as the 1990’s when our international clients who were beginning to expand into Asian markets. Championed by Callum MacBean, Managing Director and Principal, Hong Kong office has current staff of 25 people. Recenlty, Hong Kong office has expanded its resources and capabilities with a creative blend of international and local resources and knowledge to provide a broader range of design services for both our global and local clients . Planning and Urban Design is one of our focus and under the leadership of Steven Townsend, AICP, Regional Director of Planning and Urban Design, our dedicated team is a multidisciplinary, multicultural group that represents a commitment toward combining international high quality design experience with a tremendous respect for local culture. The results are projects that are timeless and provide higher value.
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Planning and Urban Design Hong Kong Team
Callum MacBean RIBA Managing Director/Principal
Steven Townsend AICP Regional Director of Planning and Urban Design
Sylvester Wong AICP, LEED速 AP Design Director
Christian Aryo Bravianto Design Director
Casey Wang HKIUD Project Manager
Callum now manages the Hong Kong office, after 8 years running the Shanghai office. He brings expertise from his portfolio of architecture, interior, and masterplanning covering commercial, mixeduse, government, and retail uses.
For over 30 years urban design thinking across six continents, Steve has brought a public realm focus to a wide range of landmark projects, masterplanning, and urban design. He has been a regional leader in Asia since moving to Hong Kong in 2000.
Focused on urban design, masterplanning and city development for over 16 years, Sylvester leads studios and projects in planning, retail, mixed-use, and aviation, championing sustainability and the integration of natural and cultural heritage.
Christian brings over 15 years of experience in urban design and masterplanning components, leading team and projects across concept thinking, design and layout planning, regulation control, and documentation.
Casey is an urban designer with architectural background. Her work experience covered Europe, American, and Asia regions for offices of Foster and Partners, J. Mayer H., and OMA. Since 2010, she is also acting as part-time Assistant Professor at HKU.
Louis Liu Senior Designer
Charlie Chen Senior Designer
Carlo Martias Laquian LEED速AP Senior Designer
Rouel Delapaz LEED速AP Architect
Ilya Bourim Architect
Xavier Chan Designer
Du Chen Designer
Debarati Basu Designer
Naree Wu Designer
Ahee Park Marketing Specialist
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2012 Zhuhai “Heart� Central Business District Master Plan Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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Projects Cultural Heart of Downtown Zhuhai Zhuhai, Guangdong,, China 234 ha
Master Plan and Urban Design Concept Architecture
An Urban Design Master Plan encompassing over 1 million square feet of retail, arts, hotel, office at the traditional heart of Zhuhai. The master plan extends the relevance of the site southward along a new pedestrian retail street to intersect with Jiuzhou Boulevard, Zhuhai’s main address, knitting together an urban connectivity that refocuses energy and investment downtown. It is part of a broader study by Gensler to help Zhuhai retain its natural competitive advantage of vast green space through.
Guangzhou Financial Centre Master Plan and Urban Design Concept Architecture
Guangzhou, China 7.5 ha
A Concept Master Plan that brings Guangzhou back to its Pearl Riverfront, in a flexible economic framework that enhances today’s Tianhe business district, and allows for a future CBD to emerge per market demand. The small blocks of the CBD create the street life opportunities and enhance the livability, attracting the necessary talent to make a financial district successful.
Doumen Heritage Valley Doumen, Zhuhai City, China 25 skm
Master Plan and Urban Design Cultural Investment
A Concept Master Plan that celebrates a river valley in one of Zhuhai’s oldest communities, creating diverse outdoor destinations while reinforcing a robust town framework for commercial development. Tourism is thus balanced with a critical mass of residential and office, avoiding an unsustainable entertainment only place.
Beishancun Concept Master Plan Master Plan and Urban Design Cultural Investment Animation and Multimedia
Beishan, Zhuhai, China 700,000 sm
A Heritage Arts Master Plan that carefully protects centuries-old community fabric, whilst integrating a sensitive infill approach that revitalizes economic opportunity for the neighborhood. Existing Jazz festivals and art communities are celebrated, and a forensic, building-by-building.
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Dianchi North Kunming Master Plan and Urban Design Economic Planning Development Guidelines
Kunming, China 50 skm
Kunming’s famous Dianchi lake gets a boost from this new city centre master plan that simultaneously manages the waterways that feed the lake. The plan’s methodical, ecology-first approach extends wetlands into the city, and brings activity and life out to the water’s edge. Its ambitious, transit-oriented clustering of economic corridors give Kunming the chance to attract international investment, and capture an opportunity to be China’s financial and trade capital of Southeast Asia.
Tangjiawan University Town Tangjiawan, Zhuhai City, China 26 skm
Campus Planning Urban Design
Part of the overall vision for Zhuhai is the evolution of the city’s university cluster into a centre for innovation. The master plan emerged from an extensive stakeholder engagement process, orchestrating the needs of academic institutions with heritage communities, using natural valleys and waterways to anchor places that encourage interaction, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
Yuyao Arts and Culture City Concept Master Plan Urban Design
Yuyao, Zhejiang China 2 skm
The city of Yuyao needed a locally driven economic identity to attract interest. With its proximal location to the mountains and location on winding rivers, the master plan of this new eastern area celebrates the emerging arts scene, and creates a hundred points of art and commerce along a variety of waterside places: canals, islands, wetlands, riverbanks, intermittent streams.
Tianjin Centre Yujiapu, Tianjin China 5 skm
Urban Design
This key lifestyle centre creates for Tianjin’s Binhai district and the Yujiapu financial centre what Central Park and Fifth Avenue do for New York. Through pedestrian-oriented retail-network planning, this collection of streetscapes, shopping centres, and signature destinations is an infusion of all-season social and public activity. Through public and private connective experiences, and links to regional transport and the riverfront, the master plan plays a key role in Binhai’s talent attraction strategy.
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Masterplanning
2013 Kunming Dianchi North Master Plan Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Services Sustainable Masterplanning
Collaborative Research
Gensler’s planners work globally on a broad range of projects, from new urban districts and developments to suburban and exurban campuses, centers, and communities. Sustainability is a key focus—with equal concern for the socio-economic health of the community and for its environmental quality. As urban designers, we know how to bring forward the experiential attributes that make a place memorable and attractive.
Based on research and analysis, our approach to masterplanning is grounded in a thorough understanding of that which create attractive places. We seek out creative and innovative solutions, while responding to specific conditions of a site, city, or region in a sustainable framework. We work in close collaboration with our clients and communities to develop high quality, sustainable environments that respond to the aspirations and needs of their users in a strategic and flexible manner.
Multidisciplinary Skills
Framework Implementation
Gensler combines the skills of regional and site planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and place-making specialists to offer a complete range of services dealing with the planning and design of the built environment. Our overall aim is to create places where people want to be, to help enrich our communities, and to contribute to our clients’ success.
This approach is reinforced by a keen awareness of both practical and financial implementation challenges, and the importance of stakeholder and political engagement. We recognize that development frameworks should be flexible to accommodate and anticipate change, yet rigid to guide the design process from initial feasibility strategies through entitlement. The results are master plans that deliver functioning places, full of life and desired by occupants, visitors, and investors alike.
Our Collaboration Approach of Delivering Masterplanning Services
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Process Management
Masterplanning Services
At Gensler our primary focus is not only design, but also the overall masterplanning effort, which brings together disparate, complicated tasks and disciplines to produce a compelling vision. Gensler has extensive experience in efficiently managing their large consultant teams often required for complex development and regeneration projects. By providing strong leadership, Gensler can ensure that a master plan is both comprehensive and creative.
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Global Experience This Planning and Urban Design team has vast experience across a spectrum of development environments, including individual rural and urban sites, previously developed and post-industrial land, resorts, commercial and education campuses, town and city centres, and whole urban districts. Our team has successfully planned, designed, and implemented master plans throughout Asia from China to India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, America, and Europe. This global experience allows us to bring the very best in international expertise and innovation to a project, while balancing the unique cultural and market consideration of every place and nation.
Collaboration: Workshops, Creative Sessions and Engaging Stakeholders
Concept Masterplanning Campus Planning Urban Regeneration and Site Development Urban Design Transit Oriented Development Planning Airport City Planning Design Codes and Guidelines Feasibility Studies and Site Assessment Heritage Preservation and Cultural Investment Strategy Tourism Area Economic Market Planning Strategic Visioning Site Selection and Assembly Consultation and Community Engagement Place Making and Marketing Interdisciplinary Team Leadership and Project Management
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