Who is the architect of Zhengdong New District?

Zhengdong New District will never forget a name: Kurokawa Zhangji.

The master designer passed away a few days ago. Let's take a look at his masterpiece again.

From 2003 to 2007, in these five years, Zhengdong New District seems to be a huge TV series, with climax after climax, which constantly gives people excitement, joy and surprise. Today, Zhengdong New District has become the "image ambassador" of the new city that Zhengzhou people are proud of.

"。 Her designer, Japanese architect Ito Kurokawa, died of a heart attack in Tokyo on June 5, 2002. Evening News reporter Merry ma

Man was born out of water. Without water, human beings can't live.

In order to endow the water in Zhengdong New District with agility, he planned Longhu.

In September, 20001year, Zhengzhou invited bids for the first time in the world, and selected the planning scheme of Zhengdong New District by means of international bidding. In the subsequent jury, 3 1 famous experts at home and abroad repeatedly reviewed, and the Japanese Kurokawa Zhangji scheme finally stood out with its advanced concept and unique design.

Water and natural ecology play an important role in Kurokawa Zhangji's architecture. "At that time, Kurokawa said that China architecture should have more spiritual things, and Zhengdong New District should have water." Zhang Baoke, former director of Zhengzhou Planning Bureau, recalled the scene at that time.

In the planning of Zhengdong New District, Ito Kurokawa boldly designed an artificial lake-Longhu Lake, which is equivalent to the West Lake in Hangzhou. He explained: "People are born of water. Without water, people cannot survive. " Kurokawa believes that the Central Plains culture was bred by the Yellow River water. People build cities where there is water, and then create culture. "I have seen Zhengzhou's paintings in the past. She has 34 rivers in which ordinary people wash clothes and take boats, but in the past few years, Zhengzhou has lost her water. The message I want to convey is to remind people of the past with water. It is because there is no water that I want to make water, clean it again and build new canals and lakes. This may take a lot of time. But what I want to do is to make future generations feel that the predecessors have done such a good thing for us and have a feeling of happiness. "

Try not to use neon lights in the overall lighting, and install a ground lamp beside the central lake, which looks like stars in the sky.

In order to give Zhengzhou the beauty of details, he even thought of floor lamps and billboards.

In addition to the agility of water, Kurokawa also introduced eco-city, recycling city, * * * healthy city and metabolic city into the planning concept of Zhengdong New District. The new area consists of six functional groups: Central Business District, longhu district, Commercial and Residential Logistics Park, Longzihu Science Park and Economic and Technological Development Zone. Its central business district is hollowed out in the middle, designed into oval lakes and grasslands, forming a central park, which is four times larger than Tiananmen Square. Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center and Henan Art Center stand opposite each other, and together with the 400-meter-high conical tower in the middle of the lake, it has become the three landmark buildings in the new district.

A person in charge of the Zhengdong New District Planning Bureau who had more contact with Kurokawa said that Kurokawa had strict requirements and paid great attention to details. He once suggested that the East District should try not to use neon lights. "He thinks the floor lamp should be installed next to the central lake. After the construction is completed, looking at the ground lamp in the sky is like a star, which is very beautiful. Therefore, the overall lighting of Zhengdong New District should try not to use neon lights. " "There are also billboards hanging at the same height as planned and maintaining the same curvature." At the same time, Kurokawa is also a temperament middleman. "The greening, road name plates and signs in Zhengdong New District are implemented in strict accordance with the plan. He is very moved."

After the completion of the International Convention and Exhibition Center, the economic benefits will exceed 6 billion yuan.

This is a new city, with a planned total land area equivalent to that of Zhengzhou now. Located in the east of the old city of Zhengzhou, starting from the relocated Zhengzhou Airport, it starts from 107 National Highway in the west, ends at Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway in the east, ends at the airport expressway in the south and ends at Lianhuo Expressway in the north. The conceptual planning scope is about 150 square kilometers.

At present, the built-up area of Zhengdong New District covers an area of 43 square kilometers, with a total of 195 started projects and 76 completed or put into use. Accumulated investment in fixed assets is more than 4.5/kloc-0.0 billion yuan, and it is expected to be 50 billion yuan this year; The housing area under construction and completed is15.6 million square meters, and the total population exceeds150,000.

Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, in particular, is one of the three landmark buildings in the CBD of Zhengdong New District. The total area of the project is about 68.75 hectares, and the total investment of the project exceeds 65.438+0.5 billion yuan. Among similar buildings in China, the architectural style of the exhibition center is novel and unique, and the suspender cable structure is adopted for the first time. The 34,000 square meters column-free space on the second floor of the main exhibition hall is the first in China. It is a public construction project with the largest one-time investment and the largest single area in Zhengzhou history. Since its opening on June 5438+ 10, 2005, it has successfully held 32 exhibitions at home and abroad, with more than 2 million exhibitors and economic benefits of more than 6 billion yuan.

Kurokawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on 1934. He studied under Ge Tan, the architect of Tokyo University, and won the highest prize in Japanese architecture and several international architectural awards. In architectural design, he insists on advocating the theory of "* * *", emphasizing that cities and buildings are related to people and nature is related to * * * *, which has a wide influence in the international architectural world. Kurokawa, Isozaki Shinji and Tadao Ando were once known as the three outstanding Japanese architects.