THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

Five years after Beijing announced its plan to transform the Greater Bay Area into a tech hub, the region’s architecture firms look at how their vision of reshaping the area is coming along

By Zabrina Lo.

Long gone are the days when South China was seen as a centre for agriculture and manufacturing. In 2019, Beijing announced its ambitious scheme of consolidating nine cities—Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing—in the region and the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau into a collective megalopolis known as the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The move has brought in new business prospects and rapid development which have completely changed the lifestyle and economic models of the region. It has also presented new opportunities for architects and designers to come up with creative solutions to the demands of new infrastructure needed to meet the GBA’s target of becoming an integrated economic area that will take the lead globally—a sort of Silicon Valley 2.0—by 2035.…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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