On December 28, after two years of construction, the main building of the Bay Area Book City was officially capped.
The Bay Area Book City is one of Shenzhen's "major cultural facilities in the new era", a landmark public cultural facility in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a major cultural and sports project in the city, and a new generation of cultural complex built by Shenzhen Publishing Group. On December 18, 2021, the construction of the Bay Area Book City began, and the main body will be capped in December 2023It is scheduled to be fully completed by the end of 2024 and have a grand opening in the first half of 2025.
Build the "Eye of the Bay Area" and create a cultural landmark in the Bay Area.
After the completion of the project, the Bay Area Book City will provide high-quality public cultural services for the people of the Greater Bay Area and become a landmark cultural complex and cultural experience destination in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The Bay Area Book City is located in the new center of Qianhai City, the core area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, on the east side of the green axis of the central area of Bao'an, covering an area of 660,000 square meters, construction area 1310,000 square meters, divided into two areas in the north and south, with two floors above ground and two floors underground, will be directly connected to Baohua Station of Shenzhen Metro Line 5, with convenient transportation.
The Bay Area Book City is designed with the concept of "Double Jade Plate", also known as the "Eye of the Bay Area". Under the cover of the open-air "roof garden", the Bay Area Book City will be integrated into the first green axis of Bao'an District, becoming a "Book City in the Park" where indoor and outdoor connections are connected, and humanity and nature are integrated.
Build a humanistic home in the Bay Area and create a new generation of cultural complex.
The Bay Area Book City is a new generation of cultural complex built by Shenzhen Publishing Group. On the basis of the experience of Shenzhen Publishing Group's existing 6 large-scale book cities, the Bay Area Book City has undergone a comprehensive iterative upgrade, which will break through the traditional book hypermarket, focus on multicultural experience, diffract multi-theme culture with books, and superimpose various elements such as culture and art, life, markets, exhibitions, growth, performing arts, science and technology, etc., to create an immersive, experiential, and complex cultural theme integration space.
The Bay Area Book City has planned five cultural theme integration spaces, focusing on the five themes of art, humanities, life, growth, and children, and cooperating with cultural integration formats to meet people's humanistic spiritual needs in one stop. There will be an "Art Garden" – an artistic and aesthetic leisure space created by landscaping techniquesHere you can gain insight into the "Humanities Vientiane" - a humanistic palace theme space shaped around humanistic feelings and cultural style;It can create "unbounded life" - a future lifestyle experience space focusing on sports, trends, technology and other themes;Here you can enjoy "growth and co-creation" - a growth and leisure space that anchors the learning and growth needs of young peopleThere will also be a "fun meta" – a children's play experience space that stimulates children's curiosity.
Enrich the supply of high-quality culture and build a cultural center in the Bay Area.
The Bay Area Book City will be built into an influential cultural center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, integrating multi-functional and multi-content such as knowledge growth, art and cultural performances, cultural releases, science and technology innovation exhibitions, and digital culture. There is the Bay Area Digital Art Museum, which uses digital art and creative design to show the connotation of traditional cultureThere is the Bay Area Future Theater - a cultural highland that exhibits creative stage plays, trends, and avant-garde artworksThere is a Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Art Cluster, which brings together a collection of Shenzhen-Hong Kong art commodity collection stores, brand co-branded pop-up stores, youth art exchange activities and other rich formats, which is a vibrant platform for Shenzhen-Hong Kong cultural and artistic exchanges.
As a cultural landmark in the Greater Bay Area, the Bay Area Book City will gather more than 100 well-known cultural IPs from all over the world, introduce outstanding cultural managers from all over the world, and regularly hold international art exhibitions, art performances, avant-garde cultural experiments, intangible cultural heritage digital interactive exhibitions and other art and cultural activities, and is expected to hold more than 800 cultural activities a year, providing a never-ending cultural life for the residents of the Bay Area. In the future, the Bay Area Book City will strive to build a cultural knowledge service center in the Bay Area, a gathering center for leading cultural brands, a center for the revitalization of traditional Chinese culture, a digital culture experience center, a Shenzhen-Hong Kong cultural exchange center, and an international culture and art center, so as to help build a "humanistic Bay Area", boost cultural exchanges, cultural development and cultural prosperity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and contribute cultural strength to Shenzhen to build an economic center city with more global influence and a modern international metropolis.
*Courtesy of Book City).
*: Shenzhen Special Zone Daily.