Exploring The Enigmatic Beauty of Zhuhai | 2024 China Walking Tour

Exploring The Enigmatic Beauty of Zhuhai | 2024 China Walking Tour

Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center / Zaha Hadid Architects Designed as a hub of contemporary creativity within one of the world’s most dynamic regions,

The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre is at the heart of Aviation New City, an urbanization with a built area of 4.78 million sq. m housing 100,000 residents and incorporating new civic, cultural, academic and commercial infrastructure within Zhuhai’s Jinwan district.

The Zhuhai Airport Railway, an extension of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway, provides direct connections with Zhuhai’s city center and its airport, while the new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge enables those in Shenzhen and Hong Kong to reach Zhuhai in less than an hour.

Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city (a Performing Arts Centre with a 1200-seat Grand Theatre and a 500-retractable-seat multifunctional Black Box theatre; an interactive Science Centre; and an Art Museum) each venue within the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre incorporates unique characteristics that create differing visitor experiences,

Yet all are united by a coherent formal and structural logic that spans 170 meters wide from east to west and 270 meters long from north to south.

Arranged symmetrically on a central axis, the two larger and two smaller venues are connected by a central plaza that serves as a shared external foyer for all of the cultural institutions. Glazed walls facing this courtyard enable visitors to determine the individuality and character of each venue.

The Grand Theatre and Art Museum are finished in a light palate of materials, while the multifunctional Black Box Theatre and Science Centre are composed of darker materials.

Echoing the chevron patterns of migratory birds flying in formation over southern China, the latticed steel canopies sheltering each venue are configured through repetition, symmetry, and scale variation; resulting in a composition of related elements that respond to the different functional requirements of each building.

This repetition of the self-supporting and self-stabilizing roof modules optimized pre-fabrication, pre-assembly, and the use of modular construction. The distinctive roof structure unites the different venues under a network of reticulated shells that envelop the four wings of the center.

Interconnecting bridges and voids create a multi-layered public plaza at the heart of the center with views to the interiors as well as to the surrounding promenades with their cafés, restaurants, and educational facilities. The design optimizes intuitive navigation with natural light in all public areas to enhance connectivity;

Creating engaging civic spaces for locals to enjoy throughout the day and evening. The Grand Theatre’s interior continues the composition of the center’s external roof canopy with the location and angle of ceiling panels optimized as sound reflectors.

The Grand Theatre’s sound-absorbing surfaces are designed to meet the highest acoustic standards required for local, national, and international performances. The Art Museum adapts the chevron geometries of the roof to frame the main atrium which provides natural light to the museum

While at the same time creating a continuous vertical surface to display artworks. An internal gallery, storage, and administrative spaces are located behind this vertical division. Merging architecture with an exhibition experience, a continuous white ‘ribbon’ of the museum’s vertical circulation and exhibition route is its’ defining feature.

The Science Centre’s interior also translates the geometry of the center’s roof to showcase scientific innovation with interactive exhibits that inspire curiosity and learning. The Science Centre’s lecture hall is designed for the center’s program of public demonstrations of scientific experiments and discovery.

Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre’s podium defines an island within ZhongXin Lake. Pedestrian ramps and tunnels invite visitors to cross the lake’s surface to the podium’s central public plaza where footbridges connect through voids to each venue.

Glazed façades sheltered by the modular roof canopy provide transparency and welcome the local community onto lakeside boardwalks and plazas beneath the sweeping roof structure. An external amphitheater on the west side of the center allows for outdoor performances and activities.

Constructed in concrete, the center consists of five structurally separate buildings, each with its own self-supporting external steel canopy.

Supported by only 22 columns and spanning a total of 270m x 170m, these free-formed steel roof canopies are composed of symmetrical geometries to enable their modular, repetitive structures to be fabricated off-site and assembled from only two different column types.

The center’s landscaping and surrounding lake are designed as integral elements within Zhuhai’s ‘sponge city’ initiative that targets the natural permeation, storage, and re-use of at least 70% of the city’s rainwater using aquatic flora and fauna to naturally filter contaminants.

Humidity and soil-moisture sensors within the landscaping’s irrigation system control and reduce water consumption. Located within the subtropical climate of coastal southern China, the double-insulated glazing of the building’s envelope is optimized for thermal performance and protected by the latticed roof canopy which incorporates perforated aluminum panels for external solar shading.

The perforations within the panels vary in size to allow differing degrees of sunlight within the center’s interior spaces in accordance with their programming requirements, orientation, and solar gain. At night, this roof canopy bathes the center in soft reflected light.

Energy consumption and indoor air quality monitoring systems with intelligent control will automatically adjust the center’s interior environments for optimal comfort and energy reduction. Waste heat recovery will be used to meet the center’s hot water demand with water-saving appliances connected to the center’s water recycling system.

Designed to meet the highest tiers of China’s Green Building Evaluation Standards, the selection and procurement of the center’s structural components has prioritized recycled steel, aggregates, and other component materials. Zhuhai is the only city in China to be named one of the top 40 national tourism destinations for overall cityscape.

On Hengqin Island is Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, the largest of its kind worldwide, and Ocean Spring Resort in Jinwan District is the Number 1 ocean hot-spring facility in the country.

International events that have favored the city include the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, China International Circus Festival, WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai, ATP World Tour 250 Zhuhai Championships, Beach Music Festival, and International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians.

Zhuhai is in the southwest Pearl River estuary in Guangdong Province, with Hong Kong across the bay in the east and Macao adjacent in the south and nearby east.

It is a key point of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. As one of China’s first special economic zones, the city has continuously prioritized ecological development, enjoying one of the best environments in China. Zhuhai is one of the world’s most romantic cities.

Under clear blue skies, clear streams gently flow down its green mountains into a dreamlike sea scape and a cool welcoming breeze. When you enter Zhuhai. You step into a world of beauty and romance. Romance is nature’s gift to Zhuhai.

Situated south of the Tropic of Cancer, with a sheltered location on the South Climates with glorious sunshine all year long With an annual average temperature of 22.4 degrees and warm tropical rains, Zhuhai is a luxurious garden paradise where colorful flowers bloom all year long.

The name Zhuhai, means “pearl Sea”, and the modern city of Zhuhai sits at the mouth of the famous Pearl River where river and ocean meet.

With a territory of more than 7,660 square kilometers, about 80% of which ocean, Zhuhai boasts 146 islands, many with their own secluded beaches and unspoiled scenery. These islands, like clusters of pearls, stretch out across the delta towards Zhuhuai is neighboring cities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau, all within easy reach.

Zhuhai’s interesting past adds greatly to its atmosphere and appeal to visitors. The inscriptions on that people were living in the area more than 5,000 years ago. During a recent competition between famous cities, Zhuhai was named “China’s Most Romantic City” by the Chinese media,

Walking through Zhuhai, you may wonder if this a city of gardens or a city in a garden, surrounded by the mountains and the sea, you can stroll through its green parks and shady paths past colorful flowerbeds, or choose to inhale the fresh air along well laid out boulevards by the water’s edge,

After dining at one of Zhuhai’s famous restaurants or luxurious hotels, you can relax in stylish bars and cafes or dance the night away at one of Zhuhai’s top night clubs,

Wherever you go, you are sure to develop a love affair with this charming and energetic city, a feeling that is uniquely Zhuhai, Romance and Zhuhai go together.

There are many seaside cities in China, but few of them are quite like Zhuhai, which has been entirely designed according to the needs of the people. Everyday, most residents can see the mountains and ocean from their homes.

The green mountains, the joining of the rivers and oceans and the natural environment make Zhuhai different from other cities. Zhuhai is divided into many independent living areas with all living conditions according to its natural terrain.

Because living areas are separated from each other by hills, connected by tree-lined roads, the whole of Zhuhai looks like a bright pearl connected by a green jade belt. Today’s Zhuhai combines flourishing and crowded business areas with peaceful and relaxing living areas.

You can enjoy a relaxing and exciting life style at the same time in one city. Zhuhai’s natural scenery is full of sunshine, beaches, hot springs, mountains, parks, islands in the sea and relaxation and romance.

No matter if you’re playing on the beach, fishing from a boat or watching the sunset, you will feel comfortable and at peace and one with nature. The most well known romantic location in Zhuhai is “Lover’s Road winds it’s way along the coast between the mountains and water, for several kilometers.

It has broad pavements and gardens, quiet seating and picnic areas and wonderful views displaying the natural beauty of Zhuhai, It truly captures the romantic atmosphere of this young city. Here you will find couples young and old, strilling together with dreams of the future or enjoying happy memories with their loved ones.

In the past, Zhuhai was thought of as a backwater area with little or no access to any other cities, All this has changed.

Major in vestment and improvements to Zhuhai’s infrastructure such as Zhuhai Airport, Zhuhai Power Station, Ports and the Beijing-Zhuhai expressway has rapidly changed the status of the city into a major regional economic center.

Now fully networked with fast and easy access to the rest of the Pearl River Delta, Zhuhai has laid the foundations for its development as a high technology and research center for leading multinational companies and an important export base.

Zhuhai’s population is today over 2.4 million people with many of its highly educated and talented citizens coming from different regions of China,

In the past 20 years, locals and new immigrants to the city have worked shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand to build their home together and make it a modern comfortable city in which to live and raise their children.

Now, Zhuhai is well known as one of the best cities in China, with a high standard and quality of living and goof working conditions. Zhuhai will continue to provide a comfortable and warm home for everyone who loves the city.

Zhuhai is one of the world’s most romantic cities. Under clear blue skies, clear streams gently flow down its green mountains into a dreamlike sea scape and a cool welcoming breeze. When you enter Zhuhai. You step into a world of beauty and romance,

Romance is nature’s gift to Zhuhai. Situated south of the Tropic of Cancer, with a sheltered location on the South Climates with glorious sunshine all year long With an annual average temperature of 22.4 degrees and warm tropical rains, Zhuhai is a luxurious garden paradise where colorful flowers bloom all year long.

The name Zhuhai, means “pearl Sea”, and the modern city of Zhuhai sits at the mouth of the famous Pearl River where river and ocean meet. These islands, like clusters of pearls, stretch out across the delta towards Zhuhuai is neighboring cities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau, all within easy reach.

With a territory of more than 7,660 square kilometers, about 80% of which ocean, Zhuhai boasts 146 islands, many with their own secluded beaches and unspoiled scenery. Zhuhai’s interesting past adds greatly to its atmosphere and appeal to visitors.

The inscriptions on that people were living in the area more than 5000 years ago. West of Zhuhai. Near the Ya Men River are ancient ruins from the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 1700 years old.

Nearby Cuihen Village, to the north in Zhongshan, is the birthplace of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the leader of the democratic revolution in the early 20th century, and sometimes known as the “Father of China.”

Many other monuments, parks, museums and locations chart the history of the great events and changes of China’s great civilization, ancient and modern, In more recent times, our sister cities, first Hong Kong and then Macau, have witnessed the joyous reunion with the motherland, ending 400 years of separation.

At the end of the 70’s, as China began opening up to the world, Zhuhai was given the unprecedented opportunity to develop as one of several special economic zones selected for inward in vestment.

In just over 20 short years Zhuhai has changed form a poor fishing village to become a prosperous modern garden-city, with a prestigious coastal location.

The Pearl River Delta now has one of the strongest regional economics of the world and Zhuhai’s modern facilities and beautiful location make it increasingly attractive to global companies. An increasing number of international residents have chosen to make Zhuhai their home.

Part of the attraction of Zhuhai is the unique balance it has achieved between its natural and man-made environment making it an ideal place to live and work,

In the eyes of designers and builders, natural harmony must always be protected and cherished, Since the beginning of the 90’s, Zhuhai has received countless awards in recognition of its environmental standards and achievements,

These include: Top 40 Cities for Traveling in China, National Garden City, National Model City of Ecological and Environmental Protection, Cleanest City in China, and The Best City for Land Travel in China. In 1999, Zhuhai was honored as “The International Award for Most Improved Living Environment” by the United Nations,

Thus through the efforts of city planners and enlightened government, Zhuhai has become internationally famous as one of the “Most Livable Places for People” in the entire world. During a recent competition between famous cities, Zhuhai was named “China’s Most Romantic City” by the Chinese media,

Walking through Zhuhai, you may wonder if this a city of gardens or a city in a garden, surrounded by the mountains and the sea,

You can stroll through its green parks and shady paths past colorful flowerbeds, or choose to inhale the fresh air along well laid out boulevards by the water’s edge,

After dining at one of Zhuhai’s famous restaurants or luxurious hotels, you can relax in stylish bars and cafes or dance the night away at one of Zhuhai’s top night clubs,

Wherever you go, you are sure to develop a love affair with this charming and energetic city, a feeling that is uniquely Zhuhai, Romance and Zhuhai go together.

The first stop of Walk East in 2024 is Zhuhai, Guangdong.

This is one of Max’s favorite cities. In the cold winter in China, you can wear short-sleeved shirts and take a leisurely stroll on the beach in Zhuhai, or you can have fun eating, drinking and having fun here.

This video specifically introduces the Jinwan Civic Art Center in Zhuhai. It’s so beautiful here!
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Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center / Zaha Hadid Architects
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Designed as a hub of contemporary creativity within one of the world’s most dynamic regions, the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre is at the heart of Aviation New City, an urbanization with a built area of 4.78 million sq. m housing 100,000 residents and incorporating new civic, cultural, academic and commercial infrastructure within Zhuhai’s Jinwan district.

The Zhuhai Airport Railway, an extension of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway, provides direct connections with Zhuhai’s city center and its airport, while the new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge enables those in Shenzhen and Hong Kong to reach Zhuhai in less than an hour.

Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city (a Performing Arts Centre with a 1200-seat Grand Theatre and a 500-retractable-seat multifunctional Black Box theatre; an interactive Science Centre; and an Art Museum) each venue within the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre incorporates unique characteristics that create differing visitor experiences, yet all are united by a coherent formal and structural logic that spans 170 meters wide from east to west and 270 meters long from north to south.

Arranged symmetrically on a central axis, the two larger and two smaller venues are connected by a central plaza that serves as a shared external foyer for all of the cultural institutions.

Glazed walls facing this courtyard enable visitors to determine the individuality and character of each venue. The Grand Theatre and Art Museum are finished in a light palate of materials, while the multifunctional Black Box Theatre and Science Centre are composed of darker materials.

Echoing the chevron patterns of migratory birds flying in formation over southern China, the latticed steel canopies sheltering each venue are configured through repetition, symmetry, and scale variation; resulting in a composition of related elements that respond to the different functional requirements of each building.

This repetition of the self-supporting and self-stabilizing roof modules optimized pre-fabrication, pre-assembly, and the use of modular construction.

The distinctive roof structure unites the different venues under a network of reticulated shells that envelop the four wings of the center. Interconnecting bridges and voids create a multi-layered public plaza at the heart of the center with views to the interiors as well as to the surrounding promenades with their cafés, restaurants, and educational facilities.

The design optimizes intuitive navigation with natural light in all public areas to enhance connectivity; creating engaging civic spaces for locals to enjoy throughout the day and evening.

The Art Museum adapts the chevron geometries of the roof to frame the main atrium which provides natural light to the museum while at the same time creating a continuous vertical surface to display artworks. An internal gallery, storage, and administrative spaces are located behind this vertical division.

Merging architecture with an exhibition experience, a continuous white ‘ribbon’ of the museum’s vertical circulation and exhibition route is its’ defining feature.

Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre’s podium defines an island within ZhongXin Lake.

Constructed in concrete, the center consists of five structurally separate buildings, each with its own self-supporting external steel canopy.

Supported by only 22 columns and spanning a total of 270m x 170m, these free-formed steel roof canopies are composed of symmetrical geometries to enable their modular, repetitive structures to be fabricated off-site and assembled from only two different column types.

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0:00 Intro
1:33 Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center / Zaha Hadid Architects
54:05 Zhuhai Huanyu City Mall
1:18:26 Zhuhai Planning Exhibition Hall and Zhuhai Museum
1:45:46 Zhuhai Coastal Park
2:18:30 Around Zhuhai Grand Theater
2:36:43 Zhuhai Historical Blocks
2:55:48 Zhuhai Fuhuali Shopping Area
3:31:54 Zhuhai Lijunpangdu Shopping Area
3:42:36 The night fountain Show
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