2019-07-18

Haskoll & UCL held“UCL Built Environment Club (Beijing) Forum: URBAN SPATIAL MASTERPLANNING - an Art or a Science?

During the evening of 10th July of year 2019, Bejing Haskoll Architectural Design Consultancy and The Bartlett of UCL held “UCL Built Environment Club (Beijing)” event at Clerkenwell Space in Beijing. BIAD attended this event as a special guest. The theme of this academission is “URBAN SPATIAL MASTERPLANNING”: an Art or a Science? ”, all the academissioners gave their own ideas towards the topic.

UCL enjoys great prestige in the world and ranks the first place globally by subject of architecture. Besides, they offer world-class research opportunities, education, executive training courses and advice to students, universities, governments and professional practice. UCL Built Environment Clubs bring together a network of alumni from The Bartlett and the UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering to create a world-class resource of expertise. UCL Built Environment Clubs annually host events and conferences across regions including: China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Quito, Santiago and Tokyo.

Alan Penn
Dean, The Bartlett

David Cobb
Director of Business Development, The Bartlett

Tim Stonor
Managing Direcor, Space Syntax UK

As an international design consultancy, Haskoll continuously develops new models of business and advanced designing ideas. Meanwhile, it maintains frequent communication with UCL as well as its Space Syntax Laboratory to underpin our market insight and maximize commercial value of the design projects. Since the year of 2011, Haskoll has held 6 times similar events with UCL and built up a close relationship with them. Those events also have contributed a lot to the development and innovation in architectural design industry.

Peter Goldsmith
Chairman, Haskoll China

Henry Yang
Managing Director, Haskoll China

Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd is a large-scale state-owned architectural design and consulting institute established in 1949, the same year the PRC founded. Over the 70 years since its establishment, BIAD has devoted itself to architectural design services, and maintained good cooperative relationships with various countries’ distinguished design companies; the Company has committed itself to providing high quality design and gradually developed its key corporate concept - Architecture Serves Society, Design Creates Value, thus enjoying a good reputation in the industry, building up the design brand image of BIAD. In addition, BIAD have joined hands with many well-known universities in China to develop their cooperative education.

Quansheng Xu 
President, BIAD 

This event achieved extraordinary success. We want to show kindly gratefulness to all the guests for coming  and look forward to further cooperation and communication with UCL in the field of design.