Tianyi Square

Tianyi Plaza is currently the largest "one-stop" shopping commercial plaza in China, which organically combines basic tourism elements such as "food, transportation, entertainment, shopping and tourism".

Tianyi Square

Ningbo Tianyi Square starts from chejiao street in the East, ends at Kaiming street in the west, follows Zhongshan East Road in the north and yaohang street in the south. It covers an area of 19.6 hectares, with a total demolition area of 235600 square meters and a demolition cost of nearly 800 million yuan.

Tianyi Square is the largest in the history of Ningbo in terms of investment, relocation area and number of households involved. In addition, Ningbo Tianyi Square once won the Chinese Architectural Art Award in 2004

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Brief introduction to the square

The development and construction of Tianyi Square is a major decision made by Ningbo Municipal Party committee and government, and an important practical project in the new century. The project plans to build a domestic first-class large-scale city center commercial square integrating leisure, business, tourism, catering and shopping, and become another highlight of Ningbo's opening up. The square is mainly composed of 2-4 low rise buildings, which fully embodies the modern commercial style. The central 3.6 hectare green square is used as the support, with a north-south water street and a pool of clear water, dotted with several exquisite and transparent buildings. The elegant environment and rich landscape will make the commercial atmosphere of CBD square more interesting. The square is characterized by a strong commercial culture. It provides Ningbo citizens with an open and participatory city living room through outdoor stage performance, exhibition and other commercial and cultural activities.

As the largest commercial square in Ningbo, Tianyi Square has 167000 square meters of shops, 20000 square meters of parking lots, 64000 square meters of green space, 6000 square meters of Water Street and 1000 square meters of performing stage. The total investment of the project is 1.25 billion yuan. The whole project was completed by the end of 2001.

Architectural features

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Tianyi Square is located on the south side of Zhongshan Road, a prosperous commercial street in the center of the city, covering an area of 200000 square meters. The main building is composed of 22 modern buildings with strong European style, with a total construction area of 220000 square meters. In the center of the enclosed building complex are 35000 square meters of central square and 6000 square meters of landscape water area. At the same time, there are more than 200 meters of total length, the highest 40 meters of Asia's first music fountain and 20 meters of high and 60 meters of wide large screen water screen movie. Tianyi Plaza is currently the largest "one-stop" shopping and leisure Plaza in China. It is a first-class large-scale urban commercial plaza integrating leisure, business, tourism, catering and shopping. The Plaza integrates shopping, leisure, entertainment, culture and tourism. It is known as the commercial aircraft carrier of Ningbo and another beautiful business card of Ningbo City. The square building with clear scenery, a pool of clear water and a 3.6 hectares of urban green space make Tianyi Square full of modern commercial atmosphere and provide citizens with a leisure and entertainment center with elegant environment.

Main building

Tianyi Square, with a total investment of 1.4 billion yuan, is located in the south of Zhongshan East Road, a prosperous commercial street in the center of Ningbo, covering an area of 200000 square meters and a total construction area of 220000 square meters. The main building is composed of 22 modern buildings with European style. The whole area is jointly designed by the American Moore design firm and Ningbo Architectural Design Institute. Tianyi Square includes ten large commercial districts and a central square. The central square covers an area of 35000 square meters, with a landscape water area of 6000 square meters. At the same time, it is equipped with Asia's first music fountain with a total length of more than 200 meters and a maximum water spray of 40 meters, and a large screen water screen movie with a height of 20 meters and a width of 60 meters.

Tianyi Plaza is designed by Moore Moda and Ningbo Institute of architectural design. It introduces the urban design concept and pays attention to the coordination between the overall effect and the surrounding environment. The main buildings around the square are composed of 22 low rise buildings with different styles, which make the 35000 square meter central square more broad and magnificent, and highlight the high-rise buildings around the square. All the buildings in the square are arranged along the central square in a circular way, with Zhongshan intersection as the axis in the north and south. Southwest oblique axis from Kaiming street intersection to Sanjiangkou, forming a strong modern atmosphere. On the main entrance of No.1 gate, Zhongshan Road, there are six Canary jujube trees from Australia, about 100 years old. They are graceful and vivid, and they are the welcome trees of the square. Tianyi Square has three themes: hydrophilic, green and modern. The greening rate of the square is 32%, just like a city green island. The green theme of Tianyi Square is extraordinarily enchanting.

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After entering from the main entrance, there is a 35000 square meter deduction center square, which is wide and magnificent. To the South you can see the towering roof of the Gothic church. According to the French missionary Guo Zhongchuan in 1702, this church was built in yaohang Street Catholic Church in Lingqiao gate. It was expanded in 1997 and completed in 2000. The ridge of the hall is 31 meters high, and the bell tower is 66 meters high. It is a typical Gothic building with top shape and color windows.

fountain

After entering the square and crossing two parallel bridges, the world's top French international water show creates Asia's largest music fountain and super large water screen movie,. With a total investment of 40 million yuan, the waterscape system is L-shaped, with a total length of 200 meters. The main fountain is 95 meters long, which echoes the central stage of the square. The core of the main fountain is the fountain called Optimus Prime between the two bridges. A large-diameter nozzle in the center shoots a water column with a diameter of 38 mm, and the height of the fountain can reach 40 meters, forming the trend of a pillar supporting the sky. The whole music fountain has 2000 nozzles More than 400 water pumps, all controlled by computers, adopt the most advanced high-pressure air pump laser music fountain technology in the world at present. With the cooperation of laser and music, the fountain can spray out crystal clear water columns and spray at high speed, and can combine hundreds of dazzling fountain patterns, such as "gaoganghua style", "Waltz style" and "butterfly spread wing style" It's a beautiful "water world"; at the same time, the water lamps that complement the fountains also shine brilliantly. With the change of music, a red, orange, green, blue and purple "water stage" is transparent and bright, just like a fairyland, which is dazzling and amazing.

Water screen film

On both sides of the square, the sprayed water walls form a fan-shaped water curtain with a height of 20 meters and a width of 60 meters. A light beam and a laser beam from the opposite building project on the crystal clear water curtain. The water drops are like graupel and fog. The colorful light beams and the water curtain complement each other, forming a group of lively pictures - this is the big screen water curtain movie of Tianyi Square, a huge water curtain movie It's amazing that the landscape portrait is clear and perceptible, like a dream, and as if it's within reach.

Central Plaza

On both sides of the central square, there are four landmark metal landscape lamp posts, which can emit intense laser at night and spray out various colors of smoke; the laser is changeable and the smoke is extremely beautiful; there are hundreds of ground lamps on the square at night, which can compare the square to the night sky and the little ground lamps to the stars. It's not excessive at all. People are walking in the river of stars. The night is gorgeous and colorful, just like a dream It's fantastic.

The center square, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people, is a place for citizens and tourists to watch performing arts and leisure. The front center stage is divided into three platforms, with a total area of 1500 square meters. There are fan-shaped steps on both sides, which are in a "t" shape with the center stage, and there are steps around. This stage is the largest and best outdoor performance stage in Ningbo, and has become a place for citizens to enjoy themselves.

Food District

On the east side of the square, between the food district and Tesco supermarket, is a 180 meter long crystal street. This is the design of the designer's ingenuity. The chic architecture and crystal corridor are unique in China, with sparkling water, gurgling water, trickling fountains and long lighting. The wooden overpass connecting the two sides of the crystal Street adds a sense of exotic flavor and leisure interest People seem to be on the banks of the Seine River with pleasant scenery, which fully shows the beautiful picture of harmony and unity between man and nature.

Hall of medicine Emperor

In the clothing area on the northwest side of the square, there is an ancient building, the hall of the emperor of medicine, which was built in 1708, the 47th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. The hall of medicine emperor plays an important role in the history of medicine in Ningbo. It not only worships the Shennong family, but also becomes an important place for the north and South medicinal materials and famous doctors in Modern Ningbo to sit down and discuss business. The main hall of the existing main building, covering an area of about 1600 square meters, was repaired during the construction of Tianyi Square. Many exquisite wood, stone, brick and other patterns in the hall were preserved, and the statue of Shennong, the emperor of medicine, was rebuilt. Now the hall of the emperor of medicine has become a drugstore of Ningbo Dahongying Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and an exhibition hall of Ningbo pharmaceutical history.

Next to the yaohuang hall, there are a pair of stone carvings from the song and Yuan Dynasties excavated during the construction of Tianyi Square. To protect the two giant buildings. Specially built here a song style stele Pavilion - Ling pavilion to properly protect, but also for tourists to visit. At that time, 18 pieces of ancient silver ingots with research value were unearthed on this "geomantic treasure land", which were engraved with the words "Hua Yin", "Jin Hua Yin", etc., indicating that this was the place where merchants gathered in ancient times. Tianyi Square preserves these relics in order to let you enjoy them

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