Raffles City Chongqing
Raffles City Chongqing breathes new life to the well-known and historic Chaotianmen Square. Searching for new methods to urban design, the mega 3D city and elaborate complex provides a catalyst for sparking downtown regeneration, producing a new iconic symbol for Chongqing, a major city in western China. Here's a list of 8 top must-know facts.
1. Standing at the convergence of China's two significant rivers, Jialing and Yangtze, Raffles City Chongqing today with its design brings to mind the site's once historic role as a maritime trading post and imperial city gate.
2. The project resumes the firm's examination of livable urban communities, vertical neighborhoods, and superbly linked public spaces.
3. Situated within a densely developed grid, the structure, combining hotel, office, residential, serviced apartments, retail, as well as recreational facilities, has initiated regeneration around its waterfront area.
4. It stands at the center of one of China's most rapidly growing cities where there are limited public parks.
5. The structure provides more than 30,000 square meters of public space that includes outdoor and even community meeting spaces.
6. The designers did an amazing job at integrating a number of access points in accord with the city's natural undulating topography, a high-tech traffic diversion system, and finally, a new public pathway which crosses through 5 levels of the mall to offer a straight connection between Chaotianmen Square and podium park.
7. The retail podium is topped with a wide public park that overlooks Chaotianmen Square. The gateway park consists of a network of green and open spaces which displays public art exhibits as well as sculptures, a series of water features, and interactive fountains.
8. It features a 300-meter-long horizontal skybridge known as "Crystal" which links the top of 4 of the skyscrapers and is now the world's 2nd highest after the Kingdom Centre.
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