A few days ago, the awarding ceremony of the "world's longest pedestrian street" jointly awarded by the United Nations Friendship Council and the United Nations Committee for Harmonious Development was held in Shenzhen. The Guanggu Pedestrian Street Project of Wuhan World City won this global honor with a pure pedestrian street length of1.350m, which is the only grand prize won by China Pedestrian Street in this activity.
What is the longest pedestrian street in the world?
Optical Valley Pedestrian Street, a world city, is located in Luxiang Square, extending along Jiuguanshan Road to Guanshan No.1 Road, with a total area of 410.79 million square meters and a total construction area of about10.5 million square meters. It is the longest pedestrian mall in the world at present, integrating shopping, catering, entertainment, tourism, leisure and fitness, business office and hotel residence.
The reporter learned from Lijia Real Estate (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., the developer of Optics Valley Pedestrian Street, that the design of the world city Optics Valley Pedestrian Street lasted for two years and was designed by many world-renowned pedestrian street planning and design teams from the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Planning and design work has been completed recently, and the pedestrian street is about to break ground. The progress of the whole pedestrian street project will be divided into three phases and four phases: Modern Street Phase I, Spanish Street and Nordic Street Phase II, and British Street Phase III. Pedestrian Street includes five-star hotels, top department stores, world-class brand supermarkets and five-star cinemas on the 58th floor of the tallest building in Wuchang, as well as many supporting streets with different functions such as Wuhan First Student Street, Fengqing Bar Street, Food Street and Jiazhuang Street.
A difficult struggle for international standards
The special contribution of global commerce-the selection of "the world's longest pedestrian street" is the only evaluation and commendation activity for the city and its commerce sponsored by relevant United Nations authorities and relevant international organizations in China. It is also a worldwide public welfare project established by United Nations agencies and relevant international organizations to promote global urban progress and human harmony, representing the international standard of the world. The participants in this international competition are all outstanding representative buildings selected from all over the country, and the competition is quite fierce.
The expert jury's evaluation of Guanggu Pedestrian Street, a world city, is that, as the flagship supporting project of Wuhan's "one city, two hearts" city development, it will definitely drive Wuchang's core business district to move eastward, fill the commercial gap in Wuhan, and become the most international and modern shopping, entertainment, center and festival center in Wuhan.
The award-winning project of Guanggu Pedestrian Street, a world city, is the first time that Wuhan's excellent real estate has shined on the international platform. It is also known that the World City Optical Valley Pedestrian Street Project not only won the global honor of "the world's longest pedestrian street" issued by the United Nations, but also won the United Nations "Special Contribution Award for Global Business". The latter award mainly comes from strong strength and careful planning and design.
Effectively improve the urbanization level of Optics Valley
Since the construction of Wuhan China Optical Valley, sustained and healthy economic development has become an important force to promote Wuhan's economic growth. Under the background that independent innovation has become the basic national policy and the rise of Central China, Optics Valley has been entrusted with the historical mission of building "an important independent innovation platform in China and a world-renowned and first-class science and technology park in China".
As an important pole of Wuhan's economic development, Optics Valley should maintain a long-term development momentum, attract and retain talents, not only develop production, learning and research, but also develop in an all-round and integrated way, and build an optical valley that can meet people's functional needs such as life, work, culture, education, entertainment, shopping and leisure. So Optics Valley clearly put forward the grand goal of building a new science and technology city, from a single industrial park in the past to a modern new city suitable for living and starting a business.
In the past few years, residential, office buildings, commercial real estate and other product forms have developed together in Optics Valley, which objectively promoted the transformation of Optics Valley from a relatively single high-tech park to a modern new city. The upcoming Guanggu Pedestrian Street will also greatly enrich the current business form of Guanggu, improve its management level, and undertake the most important supporting functions of life, business activities, leisure and entertainment in the new science and technology city.
The construction of Guanggu Pedestrian Street not only fills the history of Wuchang Innocent Pedestrian Street, but also creates many Wuhan and even the world's best. For example, Wuhan's 800,000-square-meter high-rise building cluster and 58-story world-class hotel will be the best in Wuchang after completion; Optical Valley Pedestrian Street adopts the world's largest laser theme landscape design. Some experts believe that after the completion of Guanggu Pedestrian Street, it may successfully move Wuchang's core business circle eastward to Guanggu Square, and may even rewrite the existing business circle pattern in Wuhan.
Three planning features of World City and Optical Valley Pedestrian Street;
One of the three characteristics: the first large-scale experiential world-style pedestrian street in China.
The whole street is actually divided into four plates, composed of four major building communities. From west to east, it is composed of American modernity-Spanish enthusiasm-Nordic innocence and British classicism. In terms of architectural design, it fully absorbs the essence of various countries' architecture and becomes a representative architectural exposition, including advertisements, column decorations, shop signs, etc., which provides visitors and customers with a cross-border experience that transcends time and space, and brings a consumption experience of "having different experiences every time, feeling that it will never be finished".
The second of the three characteristics: the only conceptual feature of light above China's optical valley
The world-class night sky in Wuhan will have the largest color laser community in the world. The light and shadow effect up to 500 meters will be the height that the whole Wuhan can see. Through the lighting planning and design of the whole street, a luminous galaxy is formed, which has become a unique landscape of Wuhan night sky.
The third of the three characteristics: the spatial scale is interesting and pleasant.
As a commercial street specially designed for walking, it adheres to the principle of pleasant taste in the design of space scale and landscape space, forming "the joy between two steps and the joy of a street"
Landscape planning characteristics of the world city Guanggu Pedestrian Street;
First, the humanized spatial scale.
As the main exhibition area of the landscape, the main street has various service, rest and sales facilities, such as newsstands, telephone booths, police kiosks, rest chairs, stools, cabins in Haagen-Dazs, beer barrels in Munich and so on. Provide customers with many functions such as culture, rest, exhibition, diet, etc. Good space design and landscape design can make more people come to the ground, slow down and relax. Set up a landmark square every 600-800 meters to gather people and play the functions of festivals, parties and performances.
Second, lights and water features interweave into a dreamy landscape.
French lighting company will cooperate with American EDAW lighting team (the original team to build Hong Kong Disneyland) to make a large-scale color laser emission group in the entrance square. These colorful luminous pillars echo the various scenic spots and buildings set in the entrance square, and conjure up wonderful wonders in the night sky of the Optical Valley. On the floor of the whole pedestrian street, irregular color light-emitting tubes are installed. Viewed from the sky or from a height, it looks like a glowing galaxy. Since then, Wu Hanyou has created its own "Avenue of Stars".