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Tashkent City project reveals concept, design developers (Exclusive)

Business Materials 28 September 2018 18:31 (UTC +04:00)
Turkey’s Tabanlioglu Architects is the concept developer of the largest urban development project in Uzbekistan – the Tashkent City International Business Center (IBC), whereas the UK’s Arup Group is author of the design and detailed planning
Tashkent City project reveals concept, design developers (Exclusive)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 28

By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:

Turkey’s Tabanlioglu Architects is the concept developer of the largest urban development project in Uzbekistan – the Tashkent City International Business Center (IBC), whereas the UK’s Arup Group is author of the design and detailed planning, the directorate of the IBC told Trend on Sept. 28.

According to the information, the technical task for participation in the selection to create the concept of the Tashkent City was sent to a number of architectural bureaus in 2017.

“Following the review of completed assignments, six main applicants were chosen: DP Architect (Singapore), Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (USA), Tabanlioglu Architects (Turkey), Global Architectural Development (Turkey), Sabri Pasayigit Design Office (Turkey) and Discover Invest (Uzbekistan). The president of the country was presented with various variations of the preliminary concept of the project. As a result, a project developed by Tabanlioglu Architects has been selected,” the IBC noted.

The directorate of the IBC noted that this option has been chosen because it was the least time-consuming, as it would be inappropriate to arrange a long-term construction project in the center of the capital.

After the development of the initial concept, a contract has been signed with Arup Group (UK) to prepare the project’s detailed planning.

At this stage, Tabanlioglu Architects (Turkey), Turner Construction Company (USA), Arup Group (UK) and Meinhardt Group (Turkey) were also among the applicants.

Work on the Tashkent City project has been going on for over a year. The implementation of the project is monitored personally by President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, as well as international experts in order to assess economic viability of the mega-project, its effectiveness, and transparency of the processes.

Well-known companies from Germany, Japan, South Korea and the UK are engaged in the implementation of a large-scale urban development project Tashkent City in the capital of Uzbekistan.

The project is implemented exclusively at the expense of financial injections of domestic and foreign investors, as stipulated in the relevant resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated July 28, 2017.

The urban planning documentation, architectural concept and engineering design are also developed at the expense of own funds of foreign and local investors, according to the same legal act.

The whole project territory is divided into eight separate land plots – tender lots, each of which has different stages of completion of work until the end of 2021 and individual investors.

The Tashkent City IBC will include a 200-meters-high skyscraper (Japanese Nihon Sekkei, French Bureau Veritas and DP Architects of Singapore), which will have A+ class business centers and a five-star Ritz Carlton hotel; a European boulevard with elements of national architecture (Turkish Uzguven Mimarlik and Muhendis); the five-star twenty-story Hilton hotel and other facilities.

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