Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation received a prize by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for its ‘Successful Fulfillment of Landscape Architecture Projects’

Recognition of contributions in various landscape architecture projects, such as Lake Park at Gwanggyo New Town… “leading a new landscape architectural technology”

Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation announced that they received a minister prize of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in the 12th anniversary of the day of landscape architecture’ held at the Korean Science and Technology Hall on 3 March, since they were selected as the best public institution to successfully fulfill various landscape architecture projects and policies.

In this ceremony, which was organized by an Incorporated Association, the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture and sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Korea Forest Service, Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation received this prize for its great contribution in expanding social awareness about landscape architecture and importance of landscape architecture field and creating green spaces and pleasant parks by raising interest and investment in landscape architecture field in carrying out various development projects, such as housing land development, public housing, industrial complex, and commission and consignment projects.

The Corporation expands importance of landscape architecture in main development projects, such as creation plans of ‘Lake Park at Gwanggyo New Town’ beloved by the inhabitants of Gyeonggi-do, ‘Waterfront at Dongtan2 New Town’ utilized an existing lake, ‘Park Green Zone at Dasan New Town’ at an ecology and cultural city, Namyangju and connects them by improving the related technology. Also, it expands various capacities in landscape architecture through holding technology seminars, introducing MLA(Master of Landscape Architecture) specialists and operating landscape architecture design advisory group institution to obtain specialty in landscape architecture.

Park, Seong-kwon, the director general of City Regeneration, Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation addressed “the Corporation will more actively carry out various landscape architecture projects with this receiving of the minister prize of Land, Infrastructure and Transport as a momentum” and “will lead a new landscape architectural technology to answer consumer oriented development paradigm by selecting resident participating landscape architecture project as 2015 innovation task”.

Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation received a Presidential Prize, the 6th Grand Prize of Korea Landscape Architecture in 2012 and the Grand Prize of Korea Landscape in 2014.

Attachment : photographs of the 12th anniversary of the day of landscape architecture (appendix)