OREANDA-NEWS. April 04, 2012. Recently, good news that Wenzhou landmark building design project obtained by Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co., Ltd. through the bidding way has passed the preliminary design review and that the project will be entering the construction drawing design stage has come from Wenzhou culture and arts building project review meeting attended by a number of famous experts inside the industry. This is the first landmark project which involves the urban culture industry construction undertaken by Engineering Technology Division Engineering Design Institute under Baosteel Engineering since its establishment, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Since Engineering Design Institute was set up, it has been making efforts to build a professional engineering design platform, make the city construction as one of the strategic businesses and devote itself to becoming the creator and recorder of the city development history. Wenzhou culture and arts building project is located in the Lucheng District in the northwest corner of Wenzhou and the north is next to Oujiang River. It is planned that the total area of the project should be 4810.56 square meters and the total construction area of the project should be 17247 square meters, in which 9 stories are on the ground, 14177 square meters in all and 2 stories are under the ground, with the area 3070 square meters. The total construction height of the building is 43.65 meters.

In the overall conception of the project plan, the design team in which the urban construction department of Engineering Design Institute plays a leading role especially considered the four factors, i.e, the source of energy of Ouyue culture, the ideological essence of the traditional art of Ouyue Culture, the color infectivity and city morphology of the traditional art and strived to create more study, rest and meeting space in the limited city space, returning the city space to the citizens. The outlook of the building is similar to the combination of three main Shaoxing Opera accompaniment musical instruments respectively named as the eleusine indica harp, flat drum and three tablets board and the middle part absorbed the construction concept of the ancient stage to adopt the three-dimensional transparent form. The architectural form which is the combination of pretty and intelligence, independent and dependent from each other, is suitable for multiple uses and also realizes the maximum of the open space.

The project construction will begin in August this year, and it is expected that it will have been fully completed by the end of September, 2014. At that time, the comprehensive cultural project which collects the multi-function such as the art performance, the literature creation and the cultural exchanges as an integration will become the important cultural facilities matching Wenzhou city development and make a contribution to meeting the growing need of the cultural life of Wenzhou citizens.