World's Longest Pedestrian Street "-Wuhan Optical Valley
Recently, the awarding ceremony of" 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. Wuhan World City Guanggu Pedestrian Street Project won this global honor with a pure pedestrian street length of 1,35 meters, which is also the only grand prize won by China Pedestrian Street in this activity.
what is the "longest pedestrian street in the world"?
The World City Optical Valley Pedestrian Street is located in Luxiang Square, extending along the old Guanshan Road to Guanshan No.1 Road, with a total area of 417,9 square meters and a total construction area of about 1.5 million square meters. It is a multi-functional, full-format and compound super commercial pedestrian street, which is the longest pure pedestrian mall in the world at present, with 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 Guanggu Pedestrian Street, that it took two years to design the world city Guanggu Pedestrian Street, which was designed by many world-renowned pedestrian street planning and design teams from the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. The 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: the first phase of modern street, the second phase of Spanish street and Nordic street, and the third phase of British street. The pedestrian street includes a five-star hotel on the 58th floor of Wuchang's tallest building, a top department store, a global first-class brand supermarket, a five-star cinema, and several ancillary streets with different functions, such as the first student street, amorous bar street, food street and home decoration street in Wuhan.
Hard struggle for international standards
The special contribution of global commerce-the "world's longest pedestrian street" selection activity is the only city and its business evaluation and commendation activity sponsored by relevant United Nations authorities and relevant international organizations in China at present, and it is also a worldwide public welfare project set by United Nations agencies and relevant international organizations to promote global urban progress and human harmony, representing the global international standards. Participating 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 the World City Optics Valley Pedestrian Street is that, as the flagship supporting project of Wuhan's "one city, two hearts" city development, it will surely drive the core business district of Wuchang to move eastward, fill the commercial gap in Wuhan, and become the most international and modern shopping, entertainment, center and festival center in Wuhan after completion.
The award-winning of the World City Optical Valley Pedestrian Street Project is the first time that the excellent real estate bred by Great Wuhan has shone brilliantly on the international platform. It is also known that in addition to the global honor of "the longest pedestrian street in the world" awarded by the United Nations, the World City Optical Valley Pedestrian Street Project also won the United Nations "Special Contribution Award for Global Business". The latter award mainly comes from strong strength and meticulous planning and design.
Effectively improve the urbanization level of Optical Valley
Since the construction of Wuhan China Optical Valley, the sustained and healthy economic development has become an important force driving Wuhan's economic growth. Under the background that independent innovation has become a 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, in order to maintain a long-term development momentum, attract and retain talents, Optics Valley must not only develop production, learning and research, but also develop in an all-round and integrated way, so as to build an Optical Valley that can meet the functional needs of people's 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, the optical valley region has formed a state in which various product forms, such as residence, office building and commercial real estate, have developed together, and objectively promoted the transformation of the optical 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, upgrade 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's innocent pedestrian street, but also creates many firsts in Wuhan and even in the world. For example, the 8,-square-meter high-rise building cluster and the 58-storey world-class hotel in Wuhan will be the highest in Wuchang after completion; Optical Valley Pedestrian Street is designed with the largest laser theme landscape in the world. Some experts believe that after the completion of Guanggu Pedestrian Street, it is possible to successfully push Wuchang's core business circle eastward to Guanggu Square, and it may even rewrite the existing business circle pattern in Wuhan.
Three planning features of the World City Optical Valley Pedestrian Street:
One of the three features: China's first large-scale experiential world-style pedestrian street
The whole street is actually divided into four sections, which are composed of four major architectural communities, from west to east, American modernity-Spanish enthusiasm-Nordic innocence, and British classicism. In the architectural design, it fully absorbs the essence of architecture in various countries and becomes a representative architectural exposition, including advertisements, column decorations and shop signs, which provides visitors and customers with a cross-border experience beyond time and space, and brings a consumption experience of "having different experiences every time and feeling that they will never finish shopping".
the second of the three features: the only light concept feature on the Optics Valley of China
Wuhan will be built into a world-class night sky with the largest colorful laser community in the world. The light and shadow effect of up to 5 meters will be the height that can be seen by the whole Wuhan. Through the lighting planning and design of the whole street, a glowing galaxy will be formed, which will become a unique landscape of Wuhan night sky.
the third of the three major features: interesting and pleasant spatial scale
As a commercial street specially designed for walking, it adheres to the principle of interesting and pleasant spatial scale and landscape space design to form "the joy between two steps and the happiness of a street".
Landscape planning features of the World City Optics Valley Pedestrian Street:
1. Humanized spatial scale
As the main display 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, etc. Set up a landmark square every 6-8 meters to gather people and play the functions of festivals, parties and performances.
second, the dreamland interwoven with lighting and water features
A large-scale color laser emitting group will be produced in the entrance square by the cooperation of French lighting company and American EDAW lighting team (the original team who built Hong Kong Disneyland). These colorful luminous columns echo all kinds of scenic spots and buildings set in the entrance square, and conjure up wonderful wonders in the night sky of Optics Valley. On the floor of the whole pedestrian street, irregular colored luminous tubes are installed. Overlooking from the air or from a height, it looks like a glowing galaxy, and since then, Wuhan has its own "Avenue of Stars".