Shanghai Cultural Square
In order to promote the construction of major cultural facilities in Shanghai, improve the environment of the Cultural Square area as soon as possible, and provide citizens with a good cultural and leisure space, the Cultural Square renovation project has been underway since 2005 On September 27, 2016, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission approved the project and carried out the renovation. Its basic positioning is "combination of culture and green, focusing on green". After completion, it will be a large open public green space, with a multi-functional underground theater with a construction area of ??65,000 square meters (of which 57,000 square meters is underground) and 2,010 auditoriums in the middle, mainly for performing musicals. Equipped with underground garage and some shopping malls. The project covers an area of ??about 47,000 square meters, with a green area of ??26,000 square meters and a maximum depth of 26 meters. It is currently the largest, deepest and most seated underground theater in the world. In addition, there is an outdoor stage on the rolling lawn to the south of the theater.
The total investment in this project is 1.1 billion yuan, of which 550 million yuan will be allocated each to the municipal construction financial resources and the municipal cultural special funds. Since piling started on September 28, 2006, the project was completed on December 28, 2009, after more than three years of continuous hard work, including underground diaphragm wall construction, establishment and dismantling of five underground support systems, structural construction and curtain wall construction. The entire building facade image project and the greening project on the west side of the theater were completed four months ahead of schedule, and are scheduled to be fully completed in 2011.