Chapter 740: Defeat and Huawei's New Headquarters
"This design work highlights innovative thinking, the design ideas are imaginative, it can be described as a ghost, I vote for him!" Mervyn took the lead in voting, and he still admired Su Leqing very much.
"Agreed, and in addition to innovation, this design is comparable to top designers in every way. ”
"Personally, I don't think this kind of design is enough to show the unique temperament of the ancient East, so I don't think it can represent China to win this award. There were also those who voted against it.
"I agree ......"
"I'm against ......"
“……”
Soon, eight judges had cast their own votes, six voted for it, and two voted against, leaving only Grover North without a vote.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Grover North smiled with satisfaction, tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, and said, "What are our criteria for awards?"
"One: the spirit of humanistic care across borders, two: the inheritance and in-depth study of a certain culture, three: breaking through the limitations of technology and creating a new architectural construction technology, and fourth: creating a unique style and art integration, as long as you have any of the above two points, you can become a Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, but I only see innovation in architectural construction, and I can't even say innovation, because the design concept of this rotating building is not the first thing he proposed. Grover North said.
"Moreover, although there is no age limit for our Pritzker Architecture Prize, the age of twenty-two is too young, and if he wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it will make the outside world doubt our professionalism, after all, among the five hundred candidates, there are many highly respected designers who have not won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, so ......."
"I'm voting no!" said Grover North lightly.
So Su Leqing's final vote was six votes in favor and three votes against.
Mervyn shook his head with some pity, and the three votes against almost announced that Su Leqing was not eligible for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, but it was a pity for this talented young Chinese designer.
However, Su Leqing is still very young, and there are still many opportunities, maybe after this setback, he can settle down to specialize in design and become a real design master.
Two months later, the selection for the Pritzker Architecture Prize was finalized, this time by the 59-year-old Portuguese designer Eduardo Suto de Moura.
Grover North has this to say that over the past three decades, de Mora has not only established a system of work for his time, but has also responded to traditional architecture. His architecture has a unique ability – to convey seemingly contradictory personalities at the same time – power and modesty, exaggeration and subtlety, audacity of public power and intimacy.
Soon after the results were announced, it was announced that the Pritzker Architecture Prize would be awarded to Eduardo Suto de Mora in the Portuguese capital of Rismu.
And Su Leqing, who has been paying attention to the Pritzker Architecture Prize, also saw the news for the first time.
Seeing that he did not win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Su Leqing's face was a little lost, although he also felt that he should not be able to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, but after all, there was still a little bit of extravagance in his heart.
He knew that next year there would be a Chinese designer who would win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, but it was not him, but Wang Shu, a top architect.
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Spring goes to autumn, time is long, and in a blink of an eye, two years have passed.
After the architect Wang Shu won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Su Leqing has been studying his own style, because of the design schemes in his previous life, so Su Leqing's design style is very changeable, and he does not have his own fixed style, but if he wants to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, he needs to have his own unique design style.
In the past two years, in addition to Su Leqing's own design style, his Qingyue Architectural Design Institute has also slowly become famous, with Su Leqing's unique and stunning buildings appearing in various places, Su Leqing's reputation is getting deeper and deeper, and he is faintly known as the youngest quasi-master.
The reason why he is a quasi-master, not a master, is mainly because although Su Leqing has won major awards in the domestic architectural industry, he has not been able to win international awards.
This is also where Su Leqing's own knot lies, to be honest, if he really wants to win an international award, it is definitely not a problem, but that kind of award does not have the authority of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, since he wants to win the award, then he must win the best, and he really can't look down on other awards.
In the past two years, Su Leqing has slowly formed his own design style, but he has never had a good opportunity or a good project to prove himself.
"Head, good news, good news!" Just as Su Leqing was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and pondering, a very excited voice came from outside.
"Brother Xiao, what's so urgent?" Looking at the person who came, Su Leqing chuckled.
The person who came was Professor Fang Jianrui's doctoral student Xiao Xianhong, Su Leqing wanted to set up Qingyue Architectural Design Institute, naturally he couldn't be alone, so he found Fang Jianrui, who had a half-teacher friendship with him, and wanted Professor Fang to recommend him a few people, and Xiao Xianhong was one of the people recommended by Fang Jianrui.
For Xiao Xianhong, Su Leqing still has an impression, talented, but a little arrogant, good Su Leqing was famous at that time, and he was not inferior to some older generation of architectural masters, so for Su Leqing, Xiao Xianhong is still convinced.
Huawei's new headquarters is located north of Huanhu Road in Songshan Lake, Dongguan City, covering an area of 126.7 hectares, divided into 4 plots, with an area of 6.05 hectares, 38.39 hectares, 21.88 hectares and 60.34 hectares, and it is said that Huawei has a budget of 10 billion yuan to build this new terminal headquarters. Xiao Xianhong was very excited.
"Really?!" Su Leqing shouted in surprise.
He remembers that Huawei did build a new headquarters in Dongguan, and to be honest, if it is generally required, that headquarters is not bad, but if compared with Apple's headquarters, it looks a lot more dull.
Because the design only highly recreates the architecture and towns of twelve famous European cities, namely Oxford, Windermere, Luxembourg, Bruges, Fribourg, Burgundy, Verona, Paris, Granada, Bologna, Heidelberg, and Krenoff.
However, Huawei, as a Chinese technology giant, has its headquarters copied from European architecture, and it does not have the sense of technology of Apple, which has to be said to be very disappointing.
Su Leqing didn't know when Huawei designed the bidding, so he didn't think about it for a while, but now when he heard Xiao Xianhong say this, he knew that his opportunity had come.
The project of 10 billion yuan is a fatal temptation for any designer, and for Su Leqing, this will be the final level for him to embark on the road to mastery.
PS: I saw someone say I'm going to be unfinished, to be honest, I do have the idea of wanting to be unfinished, I wanted to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize directly, and then the ending, after all, this book doesn't have much manuscript fee to take, and the design is getting more and more high-end, I need to conceive this kind of design, so that you feel very powerful, and it won't feel very mysterious, so this requires me to find a lot of information, but the more it goes on, the more difficult it will be, but after thinking about it, everyone knows that I'm going to be unfinished, then I have no face, so I don't plan to finish, design this last design well, and then end, so that, no one should say that I am unfinished.