[English] Century Lotus Sports Center
Century Lotus Sports Center is located in Foshan City, Dongping River in the central park of the new city center group, started in June 2004, completed in September 2006, a total area of 42 hectares, with a total investment of about 959 million yuan. After the international design competition, designed by the German GMP company (domestic supporting design unit for the South China University of Technology Design and Research Institute), the stadium, such as a blossoming and swaying lotus, the design fully demonstrates Foshan's special regional characteristics and humanistic spirit.
The whole sports center mainly consists of the stadium, swimming and diving hall, underground parking lot, outdoor parking lot for large vehicles, outdoor 400-meter runway stadium, soccer training ground, outdoor aquatic center, energy center and ancillary supporting services.
Century Lotus Sports Center will be built into the world's largest membrane structure roof in the sports building, it is also China's largest membrane structure project. The whole roof is circular, with an outer diameter of 310 m and an inner diameter of 125 m. The inner ring is a tensile ring consisting of 10 steel cables with a diameter of 80mm. The outer ring is the compression ring, divided into two layers, the upper layer of 310m in diameter, composed of 1m diameter steel pipe concrete, the lower layer of 275m in diameter, composed of 1.4m diameter steel pipe concrete, two layers of steel ring spacing of 20m, the center of the steel pipe concrete diagonal columns are connected to form an inverted dome shape. Stadium construction area of 78,193 square meters, 50 meters high, roof diameter of 310 meters, membrane projection area of 53,421 square meters, the audience seats 36,686. Stadium stands divided into east and west stands, east and west of the main stand below the space is divided into three layers, mainly by the players, referees room, press room, machine room and garage and other components. The playing field consists of a standard soccer field with natural grass, a 400-meter running track, a training ground for athletes, and various other field events. The stadium is equipped with advanced facilities that can meet the requirements of international events.
The stadium adopts the novel and lightweight cable membrane structure form in the appearance, highlighting the history and the design concept of the rich atmosphere of the times, and the plan layout adopts the outer circle circle set elliptic symmetrical layout form, the long axis direction of the stadium is set in the south, and the form presents the saddle-type spatial form of the east-west grandstand high and the north-west grandstand low. The main building part of the stadium has 3 layers of moisture at the bottom and 2 layers at the bottom, which is a reinforced tethered frame structure, with the area of cable membrane at the forefront of the same kind of building in the world. The appearance of the stadium is magnificent, like a blooming lotus flower, is the landmark of Foshan City. Swimming and Diving Hall construction area of 31,052 square meters, 220 meters long, 88.8 meters wide, 22 meters high, audience seating 2800. The building structure is surrounded by a large area of glass curtain wall with steel structure + cable membrane roof, large-span steel arch system covers three international standard swimming pools. The whole building is actually majestic.
Additionally there are 1,100 underground parking spaces, an outdoor training ground area of 20,000 square meters and an energy center area of 3,029 square meters. Foshan News Center is a large-scale building complex integrating Foshan Daily News, Foshan Radio, Foshan Television and many other news media, with a 27-meter-high information canopy and an ecological information court. Foshan City News Center is located in the center cluster of the new city along the Dongping River in Foshan City. The Foshan City Press Center will become the city landmark building of Foshan and the press release center of the 12th Provincial Games in 2006 and the future Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.
The Foshan City Press Center covers an area of 8.6 hectares (130 acres) with a total building area of 94,000 square meters. The total budgeted project investment is RMB 560 million (of which RMB 400 million is for civil construction and RMB 160 million for radio and television process equipment). Foshan City News Center is a large-scale building complex for Foshan Media Group and its subordinate Foshan Daily, Foshan People's Broadcasting Station, Foshan Television and other news media, which is equipped with a variety of functions such as radio and television program production, broadcasting and transmission; newspaper editorial; news release; cultural and artistic performances; and urban services. The layout of the building design reflects the characteristics of each media, the transparent facade of the building implies the closeness of the media to the society and the public, and the three-dimensional landscaping of more than 30,000 square meters reflects the harmony of people, buildings and nature. The 28-meter-high information canopy connects the complex as a whole, with the function of releasing dynamic and static information on the canopy, and the ecological and information garden under the canopy consisting of hills, waterfalls, streams, plazas, pavilions, footbridges, large-scale screens, service facilities, etc., which can satisfy the needs of leisure and recreation, access to information, business activities, and so on. Within the complex, there is a 1,500-square-meter large-scale television studio and various sizes of small and medium-sized studios, radio broadcasting program production studios, and news release halls. As an open urban functional space, it will provide the public with an advanced, high-tech urban activity platform.
Foshan City News Center project since May 18, 2004, the first pile, after two years and four months of intense construction, the main body and the environment, decoration and other projects in September 30, 2006 was successfully completed. In the Foshan Park sports area and recreation area to the west, south of Tianhong Road, east of Jixiang Road, north of Fuhua Road, a construction scale of about 700,000 square meters of "Dongping New City" culture MALL is rising. "A city development, both hard work, but also soft power." A few days ago, the Municipal Committee, the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department Minister Ye Zhirong said, the city to financial strength, but also to cultural strength. In the important node involving the development of Foshan, a large sum of money to launch a cultural complex project is very significant.
There will be a wealth of municipal cultural facilities - libraries, museums, youth palaces, archives, planning pavilions, science and technology museums, art museums and so on - all in one place, along with bookstores, conventions, film and television, and cultural product trading venues.
Liao Zhichun, deputy director of the Foshan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio and Television, said Foshan has a long history of culture and history, and needs a cultural, artistic and aesthetic complex as a carrier for more people to participate in **** enjoy. He believes that culture is a kind of subtle, silent inculcation, the emergence of this carrier, the emergence of cultural complexes to the cultural city of the citizens feel uplifted, proud and self-confidence, the cultural cultivation of young people and children is of great significance.
"The cultural complex integrates culture, creativity, business, leisure and other functions in one, it is very novel and unique." Ye Zhirong believes that the emergence of the cultural MALL beyond the simple addition and splicing of the individual facilities, reducing duplication of investment and improving the efficiency of use. Liao Zhichun also said that Foshan's culture can not always lie in the historical heritage flowing, should be constantly excavated and carried forward in the ever-new, synchronized with the times, with the world, and the cultural MALL is the cultural high ground to undertake this important mission.
"Culture and art can't be scrutinized completely according to the commercial vision, and can't be put on the shelf, but should be presented in front of the audience in the most acceptable and affable way." Ye Zhirong expects the cultural complex can innovate the operation mode, "cultural and business combination" to make the cultural industry alive, so that culture and economy complement each other.
Cultural MALL building layout flexibility, rich level, suitable for all ages, all cultural levels of people, can provide 24-hour comprehensive cultural services. The industry believes that, as the new center of the future city of Foshan City, the cultural complex is located in the location of the obvious advantages, with regional uniqueness; and road network is complete, only 18 kilometers from the new passenger station in Guangzhou, and there are urban light rail lines and subway lines connected to Guangzhou, can be widely attracted to Guangzhou and Foshan, the two places of the flow of people to consume. This is the Place of Dongping Culture, the City of Metropolitan Art. It is in the humanized modern Fangzhang Street, reshaping the lively market of Foshan people; with a high degree of flexibility of the square building, laying out the fashionable metropolitan water town; with the traditional art color, silhouette curtain Lingnan old and new memories.
Yesterday, the freshly baked Foshan City Public **** cultural complex project (cultural MALL) implementation program - "Square City" for the first time in front of the media "stunning"! Debut. According to reports, Square City has a total floor area of about 680,000 square meters. Among them, libraries, museums, science and technology museums, art museums, archives and other public buildings will be started within the year, the basic center of the structure was completed in 2012, the completion of all may take about five years.
"Square City" design of Chinese and Western
Foshan City Public **** cultural complex project (cultural MALL) is a Foshan City Library, museums, youth palace, archives, planning exhibition hall, science and technology museums, art museums and other municipal cultural facilities as the leading, including cultural, creative, commercial, leisure and other functions in one building complex. and other functions in one of the building complex.
The design of the Gong*** Cultural Complex was launched in June 2008, and an international competition for the architectural scheme design was jointly organized by the Municipal Dongping New Town Management Committee and the Municipal Planning Bureau. In the first batch of conceptual designs, 56 top-notch design organizations from all over the world participated, and 8 were initially selected. Then through the "8 choose 4", "4 choose 2" rounds of screening, in February 2008 by the municipal government executive meeting decided that the British ARUP (Arup) Engineering Consulting (Shanghai) Co. "Place City" for the public **** the implementation of the cultural complex.
"Why did it win? Because it does have great highlights." Zhang Kaiji, deputy secretary-general of the municipal government and director of the Dongping New Town Construction Management Committee, said that this design can fully reflect the clear characteristics of the MALL - comprehensive. "There used to be a lot of commercial MALLs, but how do you get a cultural MALL into one piece? It needs to be comprehensive and accessible." Zhang Kaiji believes that "Square City" focuses on the study and refinement of Foshan's traditional cultural elements, such as window flowers, paper cuttings, and these through the "architectural face" way to show very creative. At the same time, the design also emphasizes the combination of international cultural trends and local culture. "Many of the building's facades use very pure colors, such as red, yellow, white, which is a bright European style." Zhang Kaiji said many experts and citizens recognized the scheme at the time.
Designer Liang Yuan taste Lingnan culture
The chief designer of the cultural MALL is the Danish HLA architectural design company Asia chief designer Gao Kuang. A foreigner, how to do a Foshan people love culture MALL?
In fact, for Gao Kuang, who has a Chinese wife, has a deeper understanding of Chinese culture. He said, "What kind of values are needed to make a cultural MALL with Lingnan characteristics? We did a good deal of thought struggle, do not want to purely bring the Nordic values, simply with the Nordic vision of Foshan's culture." So he traveled through the Ancestral Temple, Liangyuan, Qinghuiyuan, and Chenjiazhi, of which Liangyuan gave him the most feeling. "I sat in Liangyuan for several days, chatting with people, staying there, looking at a lot of things, and comprehending what Lingnan culture means." Gao Kuang said, "I wasn't thinking about what to take to express Lingnan culture, but a pure experience." He doesn't remember how many times he's been to the Liang Garden, and he hasn't counted how many sketches he's made.
According to his assistant, Tsai Wen-ying, the cultural complex was designed with a clear functional zoning. For example, near Century Lotus Stadium are relatively active venues such as the Youth Palace and the Science and Technology Center. In the middle, near the subway entrance, the part with higher traffic is a large library, and considering the crowd **** enjoyment, the building immediately to the east is the book city. At the southern end, near Foshan Park, are relatively quiet venues, such as museums and archives. In addition, the plots of land parallel to the publicly built venues will be attracted and developed into office buildings, food malls, hotels, book cities, etc. A celebration stage for a 10,000-person festival is reserved in the middle part of the upper ground floor of the cultural MALL, while parking spaces for more than 800 cars are in the middle part of the lower ground floor.
Among the many buildings, the most stunning is the Century Tower, which stands proudly on the banks of the Dongping River. "This tower is initially planned to be built at a height of about 150 meters, with the main part for art exhibitions, sightseeing tours, press releases, restaurants and so on. There are three main functional divisions in its podium, namely the Cultural Exhibition Center, the City Exhibition Hall, and the Multifunctional Lecture Hall." Cai Wenying explained that one of the multi-functional lecture halls has about 1,500 seats and can play the role of a concert hall. Liao Zhichun, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio and Television, said, "This concert hall is exactly what Foshan desperately needs." He commented that the cultural complex not only carries the humanistic feelings of a city, but also defends the self-respect and self-confidence of a famous historical and cultural city.
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"The cultural MALL provides Foshan citizens with a platform for people of all levels and ages to learn, relax, experience and communicate, as well as a creative space for artists to inspire." Zhang Kaiji introduced that in the Square City, the ideal picture of citizens wandering freely and enjoying themselves can be seen.
There is a mix of static and dynamic, a combination of culture and business, and the public can enjoy one-stop cultural and entertainment activities and cultural consumption services. He made an analogy, such as parents send their children to study in the Youth Palace, can be close to the museum to visit, to the library to recharge, to the book city shopping, to the Century Lotus fitness; the public can also be enamored of the temple of art, fine enjoyment of afternoon tea. "The whole 'Square City' has a novel design concept, with a flexible and richly layered functional layout. Let the culture, commercial buildings and square space interactive combination. It is not only a piece of artisanal modern architecture, but also a diverse and colorful public ***** cultural space."
So how can Foshan people, or even guests from the Pearl River Delta, arrive at this charming piece of fertile land? Zhang Kaiji said that Fangcheng has a perfect road network and is only 1km away from the center of Dongping New Town's transportation hub, through which guests from any part of the Pearl River Delta can reach it in an hour.
Foshan Metro Line 1, Metro Line 3 and Metro Line 6 are located near the Fangcheng site. To complement the construction of the core area of Dongping New Town, Metro Line 1 and part of Metro Line 6 via Fangcheng have been planned to be constructed first as an extension of Guangfo Metro Line 1, which will be opened to traffic in 2012. Metro Line 3 is also planned to start construction in 2010.
Zhang Kaiji introduced, Square City's external spatial environment also reflects the concept of science and technology innovation, implementation of green ecological, and at the same time integrated into the Lingnan water town flavor. Square City's open space for a rational layout, the realization of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, vehicular system to follow the principle of convenient and efficient, pedestrian system is considered and the organic combination of green space system. Foshan Square City People Gathering*** Enjoyment
Foshan Square City, a simple and direct name, frankly describes the designer's central concept - to create a cultural exchange city for the people of Foshan with a highly adaptable and efficiently organized design layout.
Fangcheng is a brand extension of Dongping New Town and a cultural cradle for the public to enjoy.
City of Square and Streets
Traditional Chinese city planning has long taken the square as a unit, utilizing the environment to complement livelihood activities and stimulate all kinds of cultural, industrial and commercial development. The open streets linking the neighborhoods facilitated the exchange of activities and information; the well-defined organization of the neighborhoods in the city was designed to achieve the same purpose. Firstly, the Century Plaza, which runs through the north and south, is used to divide the eastern and western parts of the city as the basic neighborhoods; later on, the "East Cultural and West Commercial" pattern is used to link up the surrounding facilities - the eastern part of the city is dominated by the cultural neighborhoods, with four footbridges stretching out from the platforms of various neighborhoods, and the Century Lotus and the Foshan Park, which are aggregated into a network of sports and cultural activities; the western part is dominated by commercial activities, which is complementary to the high-level commercial and residential area development to the west of the base. The West Wing is mainly commercial to complement the development of the high-class commercial and residential area to the west of the base to generate more economic interactions.
The functionally related venues are concentrated in the same square, which is convenient for independent or integrated operation and management in the future.
Plaza platforms, quiet and haunted
Century Plaza Street is the backbone of the city's pedestrian flow, and the artery of cultural and commercial vitality. Citizens can enter and exit various cultural venues through the plaza, and the retail and food stores on both sides of the street will become a pleasant new leisure spot in Foshan. The underground space connects the square to the main street across Yuhe Road, uniting the subway station and the underground shopping center to ensure a constant flow of people.
The cultural platform connecting the cultural venues is a harmonious variation of the Plaza Street, and the east side of the platform is surrounded by gardens, adding a layer of quiet green space to Fangcheng.
Creative Achievement Memorial of the Times
The unique shape of the Century Tower stands at the north end of the Century Plaza, which is the mark of the Cultural Exhibition Center and the memorial of the creative achievement of Dongping New Town, witnessing the new era of Foshan with the Century Lotus***.
In order to consolidate the extension of the square to the south, the southern end will be constructed to contain screen installations of the Foshan stage.
Lingnan silhouette fashionable water town
Lively, colorful architectural shape to the Square City doubled the charm. The small boxes are dressed in unique silhouettes that tell a moving story. The silhouettes are taken from various parts of Lingnan, and together with the running water, they demonstrate the traditional characteristics of Foshan.
From the planning to the building, the Square City combines traditional wisdom, art and cultural connotations, reinterpretation of the fashionable Foshan Water City, to create a "cultural static", "commercial dynamic", "green ecological" combination of charming new city. " Both the charm of the new city.