CitraRaya wins awards

CitraRaya wins awards

JAKARTA (JP): The Ciputra Group has won the Gold Nugget Grand
Awards category for best urban planning for the CitraRaya housing
complex in Tangerang, West Java.

The president director of the group, Ciputra, received the
award at a ceremony at the Pacific Coast Builder Conference 1996
in San Francisco on Saturday.

Ciputra told a teleconference from San Francisco that the
award was given to CitraRaya for its special artistic concept.

"Art is the CitraRaya's main concept. It was considered as an
innovation and made us the winner of the grand award," Ciputra
said.

He explained that the real estate company assigned five
percent of the infrastructure's total costs to art, such as
placing several statues on the complex's main streets, building
an art gallery, a museum, a music school and an art center.

Ciputra said to achieve the target his company has made an
arts program master plan.

The 1,000-hectare project, which started two years ago, is
designed to accommodate 100,000 houses. So far 6,000 houses have
been built.

Ciputra, a successful developer who also owns other real
estate companies Jaya, Metropolitan, Pondok Indah and Bumi
Serpong Damai groups, has been participating in the competition
since 1992.

"That our project won the grand prize is a big leap from our
previous achievements," he said.

Four of his projects won Gold Nugget Merit Awards, Pantai
Indah Kapuk in 1992, Jaya Ancol in 1993, Mal Pondok Indah in 1993
and Mal Ciputra in 1994. (yns)