On the one hand, the city has entered a period of expansion
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On the street of nearly 3600 meters, the buildings of the five countries concession stand facing the river
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Now, developers have detailed standards for different items such as facade color, shape and height for new projects
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Renaissance style, Victorian style, neoclassicism, colonial style..
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So – are the houses in Wuhan becoming more and more like? What has the house in Wuhan experienced from the world architecture to the thousand buildings? We re comb the development history of Wuhan architecture, and from these architectural changes, we can also see the other side of urban historical and cultural changes
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Yokohama Zhengjin bank is a representative of Western colonnade architecture, with strict and symmetrical appearance
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Batches of 100 meter high earthy yellow houses appear in Guanshan, Sixin and Houhu..
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Land picking developers need to build landmark skyscrapers according to conditions, while in other plots, developers also apply similar design schemes and similar and cheap curtain walls to build them in batches
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One of the most distinctive buildings is “Lifen”
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But now, walking on the streets of Wuhan, sometimes I feel like I’m in a trance where I am, or I feel like I’m familiar with the street scene in front of me
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Even the most popular clubs at that time should be placed near the dormitory area
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Compared with profitable houses, commercial buildings with longer investment cycle are easier to be ignored by developers
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Almost 10 years ago, the buildings on the streets of Wuhan began to fall into the bottleneck
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More concise and more efficient modernist style buildings are also popular in the streets of Wuhan
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When it comes to the middle end, the music slows down, which is not only a problem in Wuhan, but also a challenge faced by almost all cities in the country.
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The industry is becoming more and more mixed
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When it comes to Wuhan, the Yellow Crane Tower and Jianghan pass inevitably appear in my mind
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Macquarie Bank, the representative of Western securities Gallery architecture, is also the earliest bank architecture in Wuhan
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Every place in Wuhan is different
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They adopt a neighborhood layout with clear internal and external boundaries, but the people of Wuhan still add life needs such as schools, hospitals and shops in the dormitory area
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Rise around the city, wipe out the original style with the attitude of destroying the withered and decadent, and the horizontal and vertical road network divides the earth into neat
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All became part of this grand city
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Most of them are in the name of Wuhan and adopt symmetrical layout and solemn modeling
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In the starting area of Changjiang new town, the architectural firms also introduced the latest digital algorithms into the overall design to describe the shape of the future city through complex calculus and analysis
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Managers have also noticed the problem that urban streets have become stereotyped
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Some design concepts and schools popular in the international architectural community, especially the architectural styles popular in Japan and Hong Kong, China, began to affect China
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Buildings of different styles and schools were built
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Designers, in the project, while adding the latest architectural concepts and technology, they also add the cultural elements and symbols belonging to the city
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The government clearly takes “warm white grey orange” as the urban color of Wuhan, and promulgated the “Han ten articles” to guide new projects
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We love this city, its boldness and enthusiasm, its prosperity and vitality, and all these elements that fascinate us exist, continue and pass through one building after another
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In the 1860s, foreigners established a concession in Hankou and brought western architecture to Wuhan
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The international trade building and Minsheng Bank building by the Northwest Lake are all boutiques born during this period// Wuhan Minsheng Bank building, originally planned to become China’s third securities trading center, was later changed to a pure office building
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Many of these buildings are still admired
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Shanghai Road Catholic Church, built by Italian missionaries, belongs to the Roman basilica architectural style
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The “Lifen” built by Wuhan people, combined with European row buildings and local patios, is also designed with a small balcony for drying on the second floor, which is foreign and practical
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After the reform and opening up, the story of Wuhan house is updated again
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After the founding of the people’s Republic of China, Wuhan is full of waste, and the story of Wuhan house ushers in a new chapter
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In addition to public buildings, new dormitory villages, represented by green hill and red house and drawing on the Soviet model, are also blooming in the three towns
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At that time, Hankou Concession with exotic customs, Hanyang and Wuchang ancient cities with cultural heritage, and Wuhan University buildings in the suburbs..
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The columns of these buildings are supported by ox horns of Chinese buildings
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It is the first impression of the city’s culture on a city, which is often provided by architecture
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This trend inevitably spread to Wuhan, and buildings with different shapes and designs rose in the three towns
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Some enterprises are bent on pursuing faster and higher profit returns
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They look like western stone buildings, but they actually use many socialist and traditional Chinese elements, It is permeated with the color of the revolutionary era
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Last Friday, it also launched the implementation opinions on improving the quality of the city
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At that time, Hankou was, to put it bluntly, a museum of architecture of all nations
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Did you find that the architectural appearance is converging day by day, but in the “copy and paste” again and again, the city is becoming more and more strange
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On Jiefang Avenue alone, there are Wuhan theater, Wuhan exhibition hall, Wuhan shopping mall, Hankou Hotel and Wuhan Gymnasium..
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During this period, architecture no longer shouldered the revolutionary color
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A city is a jungle building of architecture
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Kuma Yanwu of Wuhan ocean AC Hotel, together with the aedas team of Wuhan founder international financial center designed by Tokyo firm, designed Wuhan Taikang online headquarters building and Zaha team designed the internationally renowned Forter + partner architecture firm, also invited by Wuhan planning and Research Institute to hold architectural exhibitions in Wuhan
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On the other hand, the real estate industry has also ushered in the industry blowout period, with the transaction scale and amount reaching a new high year by year
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Starting from Jianghan pass, go along the river
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Not only in the concession, the people of Wuhan are still in Hankou
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In order to welcome the 10th anniversary of new China, a number of public buildings with Soviet style were built in the core of the streets of Wuhan
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They apply the same design scheme in different plots, and the plots are unified into the same height
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The representative of colonial architecture of the former German Consulate adjusted the German style according to the climate of Wuhan
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Looking back, Li Fen of old Hankou is still mottled in the daily life of old pole in Wuhan; The stone houses in the old concession are as magnificent as they were a hundred years ago; Like churches, mosques and ancient German temples of Greek temples, it has attracted countless tourists to explore their secrets; In the campus of Wuhan University, every early spring under the green tile and gray wall is full of people..
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Looking back on the “building convergence”, in fact, it is more like a song
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🏙️ It is often said that architecture is a history book written in stone and the most basic “cell” of a city
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The Wuhan Center designed by East China Institute pays tribute to Hankou with the image of sail; Standing in the green center beside the Yangtze River, the famous design institute as + GG metaphors the three towns of Wuhan with triangular shape; The as + GG team of Wuhan Green Space Center designed the Yueliangwan urban balcony on the riverside of Wuchang, which was created by Zaha Hadid and brought the post-modern non-linear architectural language to Wuhan; In the ocean at the gate of Guiyuan temple, master Kengo Kuma was invited to create a unique AC hotel with bamboo weaving technology; Landmark buildings have taken root in the land of the three towns and grown rapidly to the sky
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Qingchuan Hotel, Changhai Hotel, Asia Hotel and other tall buildings learn from the style of hotel buildings in Hong Kong, China and Thailand, full of tropical style// The whole building of Changhai hotel is like a cruise ship about to set sail, which is unforgettable// Qingchuan hotel is the earliest modern high-rise foreign-related tourist hotel in Wuhan
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In some plots, the government sets land transfer conditions in terms of building height and self-supporting requirements
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They use western techniques and join traditional culture to build the only Chinese border area in China that does not lose the concession
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Some more powerful developers have also invited architects and international institutes to participate in the Wuhan project
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The story of Wuhan house begins with the opening of Hankou
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“New towns”, “ecological cities” and “central cities”..
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