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the design of places for people, their increasingly complex social relationships, and their collective memories – enhancing long term value based on the principles of elevating the quality of life for all Places for People Urban Regeneration Social Networks Market Flexibility The Intuitive City Unique Addressing Multidisciplinism The Land is the Value Smarten Existing Cities Cultural Stewardship Nation Building The Masterplan Architect
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Independent Real Estate Advisory Land Selection Strategic Consulting Master Planning Urban Design Design Guidelines Concept Circulation Regional Planning Sustainable Design Investor Packaging Publications Wayfinding and Streetscapes
Sylvester Wong, AICP
Steven Townsend, AICP
Christian Aryo Bravianto,
Senior Designer / Urban Design & Master Planning
Director of Urban Design
Senior Designer / Urban Design and Master Planning
Joined Gensler 2012
Joined Gensler 2012
Joined Gensler 2012
Sylvester has focused on urban design & master planning and city development for over 16 years out of San Francisco and Hong Kong. His extensive portfolio features projects in planning, retail, mixed-use and aviation and incorporate elements of sustainability and integration of natural and cultural heritage in more than 30 cities throughout Asia / Pacific and the Middle East.
Over the last 30 years, Steven has been a leader in urban design developing a wide variety of projects in urban design and master planning. With a focus in sustainable development practices and an interdisciplinary approach to the masterplanning and urban design process.
Christian brings a great strength of experience on urban design & master planning components with various projects from concept thinking, design and layout planning, regulation control and documentation. Christian’s portfolio covers projects of city and town development, waterfront expansion, transportation, retail, mixed use, residential, campus and convention centers in more than 20 cities throughout Asia. Based in Hong Kong collaborates with Gensler offices globally, his role in the design team is to ensure quality design and planning delivery with his expertise and experience specializing in urban development.
Now based in our Hong Kong studio, Sylvester collaborates with Gensler offices globally. As such, he has a leading role in city and town development and redevelopment, ranging from conceptual master planning and real estate strategy , to planning and design guidelines, to design execution and close liaison with team members and multi-national clients.
A Broader Mission Steve, Sylvester and their urban design teams have distilled from their depth of experience a focus on international-class, practice leading projects, drawn from a wide range of project type’s locations and missions. The result is a long-term mission: “the design of places for people, their increasingly complex social relationships, and their collective memories – enhancing long term value based on the principles of elevating the quality of life for all.” This decade is a unique window of opportunity in the world’s trajectory of the evolution of human society, and the right time in our careers to reach this greater mission. Urbanization, immigration, mobility and social networks are fast orienting urban citizens to a daily life that
transcends, even forgets, place. This is an exciting yet unfortunate phenomenon. Thus the need for places to be grounded in cultural, economic and natural heritage has never been more relevant. Our aspiration is to produce work that recognizes human behaviors, relationships, experiences, and aspirations over generations, and provide resilient frameworks that let society do what it does best: adapt and flourish over time. Steve and Sylvester’s many projects accomplished over the decades can help one understand this unique space in urban design and masterplanning. They are illustrated in the following pages, grouped into broad principles and themes:
City Scale Plans & the Ecocity 2.0
Competitiveness & Nation Building
Contemporary Cultural Stewardship
The Land is The Value
Strategic Positioning Defining the role of & the Chess of Design Masterplan Architect
Refocusing smart urban regeneration on today’s existing cities, making them tomorrow’s ecocities
Urban design as an enabler for broad societal objectives, human development, and economic competitiveness
Celebrating place through generations, and catalyzing social networks through public space and place
Harnessing earth and its ecostructure to give places their unique identity
Assessing the role, implementation and accessibility of projects in the regional context
Enabling district-, city-, and region-wide implementation control over multiple development parties
Langfang Eco-smart City, China
Bandar Seri Begawan Development Masterplan, Brunei Darussalam
Yudong Entertainment City, Datong, China
Haitang Bay National Seashore, Hainan, China
Hong Kong Harbourfront Masterplans
GVK SkyCity at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India
Dalian Future City, Dalian, China
Taipingqiao / Xintiandi, Shanghai, China
West Bay Masterplan, Wenzhou, China
Hong Kong International Airport SkyCity, Hong Kong
24 City, Chengdu, China
Alphaland Marina City, Manila, Philippines
Saigon South, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Shizimen New Town CBD, Zhuhai, China Hanoi New Town, Hanoi, Vietnam
Capital Area Masterplan, Putrajaya, Malaysia King Fahad Life Park, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia University of Economic and Finance, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
An Phu New Town, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Ventris North Masterplan, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines Taman Kebon Jeruk Masterplan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Devanahalli Stone Palm Village, Bengaluru, India Central Lumphini Gardens, Bangkok, Thailand Mission Bay Redevelopment Masterplan, San Francisco, USA
Dharavi Evolution, Mumbai, India Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, USA
Beijing Financial Street, Beijing, China Vrindavan Tech Village, Bengaluru, India Bay La Sun Guidelines, King Abdullah Economic City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
CITY SCALE PLANS & THE ECOCITY 2.0
AIA Hong Kong Merit Award | Urban Design 2010
AIA National Honour Award | Urban Design 1997
Langfang Eco-Smart City Masterplan
Saigon South Masterplan
Langfang, China
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
800 sqkm
25 sqkm
City of Langfang
Phu My Hung Master Developer
The eco smart city approach focuses on existing cities, not greenfield sites. Langfang’s real environmental catastrophe is the sinking of land, and the masterplan moves to stop the sinking by threading blueway water recharge strips into the heart of the city. Combined with transit-oriented development, greenbelts, agricultural heritage, wetland parks, and smart infrastructure, the plan provides the City of Langfang tools to attract the next generation of green industries.
Vietnam is increasingly urbanizing as its cities become more service centres and the economy diversifies. Ho Chi Minh City, with little room for expansion in the centre, expanded its boundaries south to accommodate expanding needs for office, residential, and cultural facilities. The Saigon South development, founded on the preservation of existing waterway networks and greenbelts over 2500 hectares will become a second business and lifestyle centre.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Shizimen CBD Masterplan
Hanoi New Town Masterplan
Zhuhai, China
Hanoi, Vietnam
14 sqkm
76 sqkm
Huafa Development Group Master Developer
Multinational Master Developer
Through comparative proportions considering the development potential of the Macau skyline, this CBD establishes regional prominence for Zhuhai. The 680 m tower is not only a landmark, but through the identity of an island CBD with mixed uses and waterfront amenities, the city hopes to attract talent and corporate tenants in the regional marketplace.
Hanoi, the heritage capital of the country, accommodated expansion pressure by targeting key areas north and west of the existing centre as development corridors. The New Town project of 7,580 ha and developed around the shores of Dan Van Thri Lake, will become the second CBD and centre for new technology industry, as well as desirable pedestrian scaled neighbourhoods.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Competitiveness & Nation Building
AIA Hong Kong Merit Award | Urban Design 2011
AIA Hong Kong Merit Award | Urban Design 2011
Bandar Seri Begawan Development Masterplan and Design Guidelines
Future City Masterplan Dalian, China 800 ha
Brunei Darussalam
Raycom Master Developer
100 sqkm Ministry of Home Affairs Municipality of Bandar Seri Begawan
In a city of engineers and expatriates, there is a surprising lack of youthful community focus in the north of Dalian. The masterplan turns a topographic challenge into a woven network of greens, watersheds, retail networks, and social threads. It is around these social and ecological network gravities that neighbourhoods form. Scale, diversity, vibrancy, connectivity all create a framework within which an organic community life can grow and be sustained.
A vision to celebrate the rivers at the heart of the capital city, creating a transit corridor to attract investors and immigrants. This supports the national development objective to shift from resource dependency to a service and tourism based economy that celebrates is natural and cultural heritage.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
HKIA Sky City Masterplan
Capital Precinct Commercial Core Masterplan
Hong Kong, China
Putrajaya, Malaysia
100 ha
14ha, 560k sm GFA
Hong Kong International Airport Authority
Putrajaya Holdings
Pedestrian connectivity at an upper level and flexibility of the framework make this masterplan a nimble economic engine for the Airport Authority. The plan provides unique addresses, adaptable service routes, and a layer of airside connectivity via underground APM, SkyPier, and a bonded route around the AsiaWorld Expo. HKIA offices, Terminal 2, the Marriott, and the Expo are currently complete, and an interim 9-hole golf course occupies the centre of SkyCity.
In its early years, the planned capital district had been populated with government ministries and residents, but there was no sense of life. The masterplan provided a multi-tiered commercial network, with each address catering to a different tenant type, anchored by open-air retail walk and promenade with residences atop. Urban massing matches the ceremonial nature of the main boulevard, while pedestrian passages break through.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Life Park Masterplan Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
University of Economics and Finance
20 ha
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 60 ha
In a society that suffers from an alarming rate of youth obesity, the masterplan for a community park blended the attractiveness of a sheltered retail environment with the activities and facilities of active recreation. The result is a centre of active life for the community, hosting regional intramural sports teams, adventure sport training and practice facilities, and event venues. All this is interspersed with a vibrant retail mix and a gradient of climate-controlled spaces.
University of Economic and Finance With nearly 100 million citizens, Vietnam is still a predominantly agricultural nation. In the push for education to fuel economic development, the campus masterplan not only creates a collegebased framework that respects the natural setting, but sculpts a whole transect of communal and collaborative spaces with a village-scale familiarity to gently introduce many students to their first experience of urban life.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Contemporary Cultural Stewardship
Central Lumphini Gardens Masterplan
Xintiandi and Taipingqiao District Masterplan
Bangkok, Thailand
Shanghai, China
20 ha
46 ha
Central Pattana Development Master Developer
Shui On Land Master Developer
Adjacent the historic Lumphini Park, the redevelopment of the Suan Lum Night Market included provision for Bangkok’s tallest tower and a cultural and arts centre atop retail, with unique residential and hotel offerings, all surrounding an inner park which was designed as an extension of the breathing room of Lumphini. The Park becomes as essential backdrop to the new heart of cultural life in the city.
The famed Xintiandi is a small part of the larger commercial and residential masterplan around a signature lake. The first of many contemporary heritage developments in China, the masterplan was a pioneer in the post-90s phase of quality, world-class projects, with concepts of stepped massing, retail circuits, and unique street identities.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
An Phu Hung New Town Masterplan
24 City Masterplan Chengdu, China
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
84 ha, 2.2m sm GFA
600 ha
China Resources Master Developer
An Phu Hung State-owned Developer
This former jet-engine factory and its 4000 cinnamon trees would have become just another facsimile of a residential development, had the masterplanners not convinced the developer to increase its retail provision, and place it in adaptively reused buildings to anchor the project, both physically and in brand. The trees were incorporated in situ into a sensitive street network.
A satellite town of such size and ambition must have a complete offering of commercial, entertainment, education, residential, and trade uses to create a subeconomy. The masterplan invites new community members to settle in for generations, with a variety of waterbased community identities establishing a web of unique senses of home.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Ventris North Masterplan
Taman Kebon Jeruk Masterplan
Manila, Philippines
Jakarta, Indonesia
20 ha
88 ha, 2.2m sm GFA
Ayala Land and Alveo Master Developer
Grand Kebon Jeruk Master Developer
The rise of media and BPO wealth among young workers in the Quezon City region of Metro Manila has given rise to an emerging middle class with high demands and lifestyle aspirations. Linked to the Trinoma shopping centre, Ventris North combines office, hotel, and multiple levels of residential strata around the rare central open space in the dense capital.
As development spills out from Central Jakarta past the Jakarta Outer Ring Road, rare are the opportunities to cluster new vertical neighbourhoods around organized open space addresses. This is among the first to set the bar higher for tall developments in the outskirts of the capital city.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
The Land is The Value
AIA Hong Kong Sustainability Award 2006
Haitang Bay National Seashore
West Bay Islands Coastal Protection CBD Masterplan
Hainan, China
Wenzhou, China
26 sqkm
800 ha
Government of Hainan
Private development land bid
The brief was to replicate yet another version of Australia’s dense Gold Coast on the last remaining stretch of pristine beach front on Hainan’s south coast. The master planners almost walked away from the projecy, but were begged to submit anyway their alternative, awardwinning vision: a National Seashore conservation plan, where less is more, and existing agricultural communities contribute to a light-touch, exclusive resort setting where value comes from doing nothing.
Tasked with the development of a CBD on reclamation, the masterplan pulls development away from precious coastal habitat and hill towns. Leaving room for water and flow extensions from watersheds, the resulting islands are oriented uniquely to the axes defined by surrounding ridgelines. The skyline is marked by commercial that is located closer to the existing CBD and the gateway to the river.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Alphaland Marina Bay Masterplan
Mission Bay Masterplan
Manila, Philippines
San Francisco, USA
37 ha, 1.5m sm GFA
315 acres
Alphaland Master Developer
Catellus and San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
A 100 berth marina and destination club anchor a new centre of life on the city’s neglected Manila Bay waterfront. A rich mix of office, residences, hotels, and retail, the masterplan pulls the address of the waterfront deep into the site to reclaim the panache of a once proudly maritime society.
Over ten years of masterplan and guidelines development for San Francisco’s most extensive brownfield waterfront redevelopment districts, the old Santa Fe railyards. The masterplan aspires to re-create the pedestrian scale and amenity-rich traditional neighbourhoods of San Francisco connected with a network of linear and waterfront parks.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Strategic Positioning & the Chess of Design
AIA National Honour Award | Unbuilt Projects 2000 AIA Hong Kong People’s Choice Award 2006
Hong Kong Harbourfront Studies
Dharavi Evolution Mumbai, India
Hong Kong
100 ha
various scales
Pro-bono advocacy Released to public domain
Swire Properties and Harbour Business Forum
Although invited by numerous developers to participate in the controversial redevelopment of India’s most notorious Dharavi slums, the masterplan team cut its own path to advocate a less divisive solution. The key: Incremental and inclusive retrofit that while improving living conditions for over 1.3 million migrants to Mumbai, maintained economic life and spaces that contributes upward of 6% of the city’s GDP. Developers get to bid for transit oriented sites to support the evolution.
Beginning with the landmark Central Waterfront Masterplan which was adopted by the Legislative Council in 2000 and led to the reduced reclamation shoreline park now under construction, a series of waterfront studies have helped usher in an era of better planning around the Harbourfront, including West Kowloon, Kai Tak, Wanchai Waterfront, Taikoo Shing, and the Sustainable Harbourfront Guidelines.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
AIA National Honour Award for Architecture 2000
Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 Planning
San Francisco Airport International Terminal Transport Planning
Manila, Philippines
San Francisco, USA
Connectivity of the new Terminal 3 to the other terminals and to the Metro Manila roadway network was a fundamental part of the expansion masterplan, including skyway connections to Makati, tunnels under the runways, and an arrival/ departures/ground transport circulation system that organizes the notorious traffic of the city.
Design and coordination of BART, freeways, APMs, parking, ground transport, arrivals, departures, and services was an integral part of the international terminal design. The sense of arrival is unparalleled, all achieved in construction acrobatics that allowed existing terminal traffic to flow freely under the new facilities during the entire job timeframe.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
Defining the Role of Masterplan Architect
GVK SkyCity Masterplan and Design Guidelines
Beijing Financial Street Masterplan and Design Guidelines
Mumbai, India
Beijing, China
70 ha
45 ha, 860k sm GFA
Mumbai International Airport Ltd., and GVK Ltd Airport Authority and Master Developer
Beijing Financial Street Holdings Master Developer The masterplan avoids typical Beijing super-block patterns, pulling a landmark open space through the whole project area and lining streets with enclosure and activity. 18 buildings and a 10,000 space underground carpark later, it is an anchor for West Beijing.
With the new Terminal 2 opening soon, this international gateway is also one of Mumbai’s most expansive commercial centres in its own right. The masterplan and guidelines provide deep guidance to capitalize on expansive open spaces for six neighbourhoods, linked by metro, parks, and an art and design coherence unprecedented in Mumbai.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
LEED NC Platinum
Vrindavan TechVillage Masterplan
Bay La Sun Masterplan and Design Guidelines
Bengaluru, India
King Abdullah Economic City Saudi Arabia
40 ha
240 ha
Assetz Development Master Developer
Emaar Properties Master Developer
Special Economic Zone rules shaped the initial response to this combination of build-to-suit and speculative business park parcels. But the real magic came with a unified central open space and addressing network, anchored by a retail and hotel village on the Outer Ring Road which elevated Vrindavan’s relevance as a service destination for the multiple shifts of knowledge workers throughout the region.
An experiment in urban living for a predominantly suburban culture, this waterfront village on the Red Sea is the inaugural settlement of the 2 million person KAEC. Contiguous retail routes, lively waterfronts, and intuitive orientations help young settlers adjust to the serendipity of public space without losing cherished privacy and discretion.
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
work designed and executed by team members prior to Gensler
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Other Projects
1. Suzhou Times Square 2. Shenzhen China Resources Cascade City 3. Hong Kong Central Waterfront | Tamar Government HQ 4. Wuhan Wangjiadun CBD 5. Qinhuangdao Golden Dream Bay 6. Hong Kong Central Waterfront 7. Shanghai Pudong Event City 8. Kuala Lumpur City Centre 9. Goa Pearl Island Resort 10. Sanya Phoenix Water City 11. Liqiao Tech Park Beijing 12. Dalat BIDV Lakeside Centre
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