‘Nagara Rimba Nusa’ announced as winner of new capital city design contest
The Jakarta Post / Mon, December 23, 2019 / 06:49 pm
The Public Works and Housing Ministry has announced the “Nagara Rimba Nusa” design as the winner of the design contest for the country’s new capital city in East Kalimantan
The design, created by architecture and urban design studio URBAN+, beat 755 other contestants to win a prize of Rp 2 billion (US$142,963).
“Their design will be developed into a capital planning design document according to the framework that has been expressed by President Jokowi,” the ministry’s Cipta Karya director general Danis Sumadilaga, who is also the head of the contest committee, said on Monday, as quoted by kompas.com.
The ministry also announced four other runners-up: “The Infinite City”, “A Thousand Furrows”, “The Emerald of the Equator” and “The Village of the People of the Archipelago.”
The winning design, which roughly translates to “forest archipelago”, was inspired by the Indonesian archipelago and includes such features as the Indonesia Raya (Great Indonesia) presidential palace and the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) plaza.
Sibarani Sofyan, the founder of URBAN+, said he had enlisted the help of many partners, including those from outside Indonesia, to create the design.
“Of course I could not make it myself. I have friends from Hong Kong, Singapore and other places and we worked on this together,” Sibarani said as quoted by tribunnews.com. “The inspiration came from many different places but we also used the elements of [state ideology] Pancasila that are related to the design of the capital.”
Despite winning the contest, the "Nagari Rimba Nusa" design would not be used as the sole basis for the new capital city, with Danis saying that the government would collaborate with the top three contestants as well as international designers. "We will sharpen the [design] process up to March or April," he said.
Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said the top three designs for the new capital had fulfilled three criteria for the city: it had to be a symbol of Indonesia’s advanced civilization, it had to be environmentally friendly and it had to be designed with future generations in mind.
“In January 2020, we will bring the top three winners to survey the new capital location so that they can get a sense of place starting from the center of the central government area,” Basuki said as quoted by Antara news agency. (kmt)
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Public offices to be built in new capital by 2021
24 December 2019
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Public offices and houses for civil servants will be built in Indonesia's new capital city in the districts of Penajam Paser Utara and Kutai Kertanegara, East Kalimantan Province by early 2021, a minister has said. "Construction will begin once we map out the exact locations," Minister of Public Works and Public Housings Basuki Hadimuljono said in Jakarta, Monday, while stating that he would be launching a competition for the design of the public office by the second semester next year.
The new capital city will comprise 40,000 hectares of the main cluster and 256,000 hectares of a buffer zone, Hadimujono explained. "We are in the process of designing the main administrative region or KIPP," he added after announcing the winner of a new capital city design competition in Jakarta, Monday (December 23).
The contest, that was open only to architects and city planners, had been launched in early October this year. For three months, a panel of jury comprising high-ranking officials and experts had selected dozens of submissions.
After days of deliberations, a design named after "Nagara Rimba Nusa" received the first prize worth Rp2 billion. (INE)
https://en.antaranews.com/news/138583/public-offices-to-be-built-in-new-capital-by-2021
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