The design of a major public culture complex in Longhua District pocketed the Best Public Architecure awards in the Asia Pacific subvenue of the 2021-2022 International Property Awards, Longhua District Construction Works Committee stated July 21.

Headquarted in the U.K., the International Property Awards is an international architectual design competition open to residential and commercial property professionals across the world. It was launched in 1993 by International Property Organization and has set up subvenues in the Asia-Pacific area, Arabia, Europe, Africa, Canada, Central and South Americas, Caribbeans, the U.S., and the U.K.

Besides winning the competition of the Asia-Pacific subvenue, the complex was also named one of the best public architecture among entries from Guangdong Province and from China.

Located in the Luhu Central Town area of Guanhu Subdistrict, Longhua District, the 183,000- square-meter complex contains three major cultural facilties, namely, Longhua District Library, Longhua District Mass Cultural Hall and Longhua District Theater, and several supporting facilties including a 300-seat convention hall, an interactive service area and an underground car park.

A computerized image of a public culuture complex at the Luhu Central Town Area in Guanhu Subdistrict, Longhua District.

According to the committee, the Luhu Central Town area, which was orginally an idle vacant land in the laid-back area of Longhua, has been renovated into a waterfront public cultural space with harmonious urban and natural landscapes. The project has achieved a seamless transition between the architectures and the landscapes through locating the facilties on an elevated waterfront platform, designating the stories and height of the buildings in accordance with the countours of surrounding mountains and visually connecting area with the Hekeng Reservoir on its south. The central town will be more like a waterfront park as a whole, whose landscapes may change in response to seasonal water level fluctuations. It can also serves as a newly-emerged, expanding urban public space which faciliate the trips to the reservoirs area from the neigubourhood communities.

Construction on the complex kicked off April 20 and is expected to finish by mid-2025.