She started in the north from the Songhua River flood memorial tower, south to the Jingwei Street, a total length of 1450 meters, 21.34 meters wide. One of the car square stone road is 10.8 meters wide. The whole street has 71 European-style and imitation European-style buildings, and brings together the Renaissance, Baroque, eclectic and modern styles to protect 13 buildings. A small street, including the most influential four major architectural schools in the history of Western architecture, including Europe's most fascinating nearly 300 years of cultural development, which includes the history of the deep and long and show the architectural art of the broad and colorful, for the world rarely seen.
In 1986, the Harbin Municipal People's Government designated Central Avenue as a protected architectural street, and in August 1996, the municipal government decided to transform it into a pedestrian street. Central Street after ten months of comprehensive improvement and transformation, on June 1, 1997 officially opened, is currently Asia's longest and largest pedestrian street. The completed pedestrian street has a beautiful environment and is in good order. She with its unique European-style architecture, lined with boutique commercial buildings, flowery leisure district and colorful cultural life, has become a bright landscape in Harbin.
Central Avenue is Harbin modern, historical, civilization of the intertwining point, is the pride of the people of Harbin. A street interpretation of a city's civilization history, a city because of a street's prosperity and fame.
Central Avenue was founded in 1898, initially known as "China Street". 1925 was renamed as "Central Avenue", which has been inherited since then, and has since developed into the busiest commercial street in Harbin. The street north of the Songhua River flood memorial tower, south to the Jingwei Street, a total length of 1,450 meters, 21.34 meters wide, of which the car square stone road 10.8 meters wide.
Central Street, known as "Harbin's first street", can best reflect the rich connotation of "Little Paris". Central Street is Harbin's old street, famous street, protection street, iconic street, pedestrian street, architectural art street, busy commercial street, tourism and leisure street, public culture street, but also that year (1930s) the Far East's most famous immigrant street, the most prosperous commercial street, financial street, cultural street, the street on both sides of the foreign stores, hotels and inns, ballroom theater, restaurants and bars stand. The architecture of the street, vaulted, arched windows, or elegant and classical, or beautiful, there are common origins in the fifteenth and sixth centuries of the Renaissance, the early seventeenth century Baroque, eclectic, as well as the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the Art Nouveau architecture. There are 71 European-style and imitation European-style buildings throughout the street, bringing together 13 European-style municipal protected buildings of Renaissance, Baroque, Eclectic and modern styles. These buildings embody the essence of Western architectural art, the entire Central Avenue is an architectural art gallery. Today, the large-scale European-style restoration - the icing on the cake of "Little Paris" - has been successfully completed on the street, which is currently the largest and longest pedestrian street in Asia, with different styles of West Sixth Street, West Seventh Street, the Central Mall, the vehicle factory in front of residential buildings and other four recreational areas, constituting the Central Avenue set of leisure, entertainment, tourism, shopping as one of the city's new landscape, so that the "Little Paris" features more and more prominent, attractive attention.
Central Avenue Pedestrian Street
Opened in June 1997 after two months of comprehensive improvement and remodeling. The completed pedestrian street is 860 meters long, both sides of the sidewalk paved square tiles nearly 5,000 square meters, 2500 square meters of colorful walking board. And in the Daan Street to Dongfeng Street section paved 500 meters of wheelchair access. The comprehensive improvement of the Central Avenue for the overall style of the Central Avenue is not coordinated with the facade of the seven buildings have been transformed. Make it reflect the European architectural style; more than 190 plaques have been cleaned up and reorganized; 47 buildings along the street newly added lighting facilities; the removal of the pedestrian street along the street all the light box advertising and 108 air conditioners; relocated 36 telephone booths; 945 business operators back into the hall.
The completed pedestrian street has 6 recreational areas and 122 European-style classical street lamps. All buildings are equipped with window lights, plaque lights and floodlights. The whole street is equipped with 34 IC card and coin-operated unattended telephones, 12 mobile isolation planters, 13 green lawns, 2 mobile traffic barriers and 147 fixed isolation stakes, 9 public toilets and restrooms.
The completed pedestrian street has a beautiful and orderly environment. She with its unique European-style architecture, lined with boutique commercial buildings, flowery leisure district and colorful cultural life, become a bright landscape in Harbin City. Walking Street since the opening of the day received more than 20 million visitors. Pedestrian Street at night, colorful, crowded, more characteristic, fully embodies the function of tourism, shopping, entertainment, leisure.
Typical architecture of Central Avenue
Walking through the European-style architecture of Central Avenue, five steps, a code, ten steps, a view of the richness of your eyes. In the Western architectural history of hundreds of years to form the architectural style style, in the Central Avenue has become the most famous street in the Far East. The buildings on Central Avenue include the 16th-century Renaissance style common in Europe, 17th-century Baroque architecture, 18th-century Eclectic architecture, and 19th-century Art Nouveau architecture. These buildings embody the essence of Western architecture, making Central Avenue an art gallery of architecture, providing the country with examples of Western architecture, history and culture, and a precious heritage.
Madeir Hotel
Built in 1906, it is an Art Nouveau building. Her shape is simple, stretching and free flowing. Different colors, different dome shapes, showing the charm of friendly and pleasant, reflecting the essence of Western architecture. The length of the building occupies a block between West Seventh and West Eighth Avenue, and it is the city's Class I protected building.
Educational Bookstore
Built in 1909, originally the Songpu Foreign Bank, is the city's largest representative work of Baroque architecture, but also the standard building on Central Avenue. Its appearance is gorgeous, with vivid shapes, complex decorations and rich outlines. The deep red attic, Mensa-style roof and the semi-circular vaults with varied shapes create a beautiful skyline, and it is the city's Class I protected building.
Women's and Children's Store
Built in 1917, the building was originally the Concorde Bank and belongs to the Renaissance style. The building adopts a flat dome corner entrance, and highlights the two sides of the center entrance with a false window gable. A virtual and a real, skillful approach. The windows of the second floor group adopt Ionic shallow wall support arched coupons, expanding the visual sense of the window. In cold areas that is conducive to cold, but also beautify the appearance, is the city Ⅱ class protection building.
Dao Li Qiulin store
Built in 1919, is an Art Nouveau building. The main body of the building three floors, each floor divided by the waist line, from top to bottom windows gradually narrowed, showing a sense of stability; the finishing touch of a three-centered coupon round flat windows for the Art Nouveau building characteristics of the characterization of the city Ⅰ protected buildings.
City Education Commission
Built in 1925, the building was originally the Universal Savings Club, a classical building. The building shape is simple and neat, only two pilasters are set at the entrance of the main door, getting rid of any superfluous decoration, and the overall effect is solemn, generous and simple, which is a protected building of the city Ⅱ.
Huamei Western Restaurant
Located at No. 112, Central Avenue, it was built in 1925 and was originally known as Mars Western Tea Shop. Its business area of 1,500 square meters, 120 employees, annual sales of 12 million yuan. The business varieties are mainly Russian cuisine, which is another major cuisine in the world today, second only to Chinese food. The first floor is a modern European garden bar style; the second floor is the former Soviet Union Moscow "Kremlin" style, with high-level single rooms; the third floor is a modern Russian style, divided into north and south halls. There are four special Western chefs personally in charge of the stove, so that Huamei's delicious food will make you savor, never get tired of eating, stay and forget. Since the opening of the pedestrian zone on June 1, the daily sales are more than 40,000 yuan. Huamei Western Restaurant is becoming the center of Russian Western food in the country with first-class equipment and first-class meal quality.
Central Mall
Located at No.100 of Central Avenue, it is situated in the busiest golden zone of Central Avenue, with a floor area of 36,000 square meters, a business area of 16,000 square meters, 1,860 employees, mainly engaging in daily-use, handicrafts and foodstuffs, with more than 50,000 kinds of business varieties, and it is the comprehensive and multi-functional modern mall of Central Avenue integrating shopping, catering, entertainment, sightseeing and leisure. It is a multi-functional modern shopping center of Central Avenue, which integrates shopping, dining, entertainment, sightseeing and leisure. Central Mall average daily traffic of 100,000 people, and created a daily sales of 5.2 million yuan of the highest daily sales record of retail enterprises in Harbin.