Civic Center (Shenzhen)

Civic Center
Civic Center
Chinese市民中心
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShìmín Zhōngxīn
Yue: Cantonese
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Interior gardens of Shenzhen Civic Center
Architect John MY Lee of Lee/Timchula Architecture,[1] winners of the multi-national competition to design the civic center and urban planning of the Shenzhen Central District[2]

Civic Center or Citizens' Center (Chinese: 市民中心) is a government building in Shenzhen, China. It is located within the Futian Central Business District and was constructed at a cost of CNY 2.172 billion.[3] The civic building was the centerpiece plan for the Shenzhen Futian Central District Master Plan[4] and is "attentive to traditional asian themes and traditions".[5] The overall city plan is based on a central axis, which stretched 2km from Lianhua Mountain in the north, through the Civic Center, and to the Exhibition Center in the south. The land area of the master plan is roughly 100 city blocks and the projected total floor space of the plan is "5 times the size of the original World Trade Center Towers".[5]

  1. ^ Jiahua, Wu (Jan 1, 2001). "Shenzhen Central District Planning & Construction". World Architecture Review. 2001 Supplementary Edition: 19. ISSN 1000-8373.
  2. ^ "Shenzhen Civic Center Master Plan". Shenzhen Pictorial. 48: 24–29. August 1997. ISSN 1005-247X.
  3. ^ 深圳市市民中心. Archived from the original on 28 December 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ^ Sun, Cong (August 11, 2019). "Shennan Road and the modernization of Shenzhen architecture". Frontiers of Architectural Research. 10 (2). Higher Education Press Limited Company: 437–449. ISSN 2095-2635.
  5. ^ a b Wilson, Douglas C. (Winter 1997). "A Monumental New City for China". Amherst Magazine. 49 (2). Amherst, MA 01002-5000: 11–15.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link)