Guangxi Landmarks
In the long history of development, Guangxi has accumulated lots of fortunes and brings great benefits to its people, and has some buildings as its landmarks. From Guilin in the north to Beihai in the south, from Wuzhou in the east to Baise in the west, every city has its own landmark buildings.
Diwang international commerce center in Nanning, is one of the biggest buildings in Guangxi, having a building height of 218 meters, and the overall floorage is about 130 thousand square meters. It is the first ultra high-rise building in Nanning, and a 5A class office building, and situates in Wuxiang plaza. This area is the core of central business area which has complete business supporting facilities, like shopping mall, banks, hotels, and government agency. It has 59 floors, and the top of the building is equipped with parking apron for helicopter and observation deck.
Nanning international convention and exhibition center is a building complex which consists of main buildings, convention plaza, minge plaze and administrative buildings, and the main buildings is made up of meeting halls, exhibition halls and large-scale banquet hall. It covers an area of 150 thousand square meters, includes 14 exhibition halls of different size and 3000 standard booth, and has a multi-purpose hall which can accommodate 1000 people, 5 meeting rooms for more than 100 people, and 8 meeting room of different standards. It is the permanent site of China-Asian expo, and designed by GMP design firm and Hualan group. The building on the roof of the multi-purpose hall is designed from Hibiscus rosa-sinensis linn, city flower of Nanning, and its twelve petals symbolize 12 ethnic groups in Guangxi, and the flower symbolizes the unity of ethnic groups, which is the most eye-catching sign in this center, and the soul of this center.
Guilin is the third biggest city in Guangxi, and it has landmark buildings like, the Sun and Moon Pagodas, and the complex of Guilin grand theater, Guilin library and Guilin museum, and so on. The Sun and Moon Pagodas situates in the Shanhu lake, Guilin, and consists of two pagodas, the Sun pagoda and Moon pagoda. The Sun pagoda is in the center of the lake, 41 meters and 9 floors, and all of its components are made from plain brass, and it looks in golden, so it is also named golden pagoda. The Sun pagoda is the highest brass pagoda in the world, and the highest pagoda standing in a lake. The Moon pagoda is 35 meters high and 7 floors, which is decorated by colored glaze, so it is also named silver pagoda. The two pagodas are linked by a tunnel of 10 meters under the lake.
The complex of Guilin Grand Theater, Guilin Library and Guilin museum is in Lin’gui new district, Guilin, designed by Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University CO. LTD, which is grand and modern complex, and its design is very beautiful and eye-catching. The Grand Theater has an overall floorage if 19,000 square meters, and it includes a main theater with 1,500 seats, lobby, auditorium, stage and so on. Guilin Museum covers an area of 31,300 square meters, and Guilin Library covers an area of about 31,500 square meters. The center of this complex is a tower, which has a bird’s eye view of Guilin.
Liuzhou, the second biggest city in Guangxi, is an industrial city, which has lots of wonderful buildings, like Diwang international fortune center, and Liuzhou Confucius temple . Diwang international fortune center is a super high-rise building in Liuzhou, and the highest building in Guangxi so far. It is 303 meters high, and has a gross floor area of 64 thousand square meters, and 75 floors. It is a center for office, residential, business, leisure, entertainment, shopping and hotel. Liuzhou Confucius temple is a temple to worship Confucius, and a place to run a school and educate people. It is first built in the Tang dynasty, and was ruined by a fierce fire in 1928, and rebuilt in 2009, completed in 2010. The nowadays temple has several main buildings, Dachengmen, Dachengdian, Xingtan, Chongshengtang, and Mingluntang. Its buildings are mainly of style in the Song Dynasty, auxiliary with Lingnan local style. In front of the Dachengdian, there are three sculptures between steps up to the Dachengdian, which are carved with a picture of two dragon playing a ball. the ridge of the Dachengdian is ornamented with Chinwen, a dragon. This temple represents the history and culture of Liuzhou.
Qiloucheng in Wuzhou has 560 qilou buildings, and 22 existing qilou streets in a total length of 7 kilometers. Qilou buildings are the combination of business and residential, the front and lower parts are developed into business stores, and the back and upper parts are residential. They fuse Chinese traditional style with European classical architectural style, and they have things of western style, like balconies and Roman column, embossment and arch window, and things of Chinese style, like memorial gate and lattice window. In 1897, Wuzhou was developed into an open business port, those qilou buildings were built at that time, and lots of business shop were opened here. Reconstruction project began in 2003 and completed in 2004. The buildings still remain their earlier style, and in more than one hundred years, they witness the prosperity of business trading in Wuzhou.
In the south city, Beihai, its landmarks also have its own specialties. In the Beibu Gulf plaza, there is the Nanzhuhun Statue designed by Ye Yushan. It consists of a fountain with a diameter of 30 meters, a statue of pearl shells, and three sculptures of human beings. The statue of pearl shells is in the center of the fountain, and it has three white pearl shells which is united by Nanzhu, a pearl. The shells are 15 meters high, and extend at three directions, and the pearl having a diameter of 1.4 meters is made from stainless steel. The three bronze sculptures of human beings in the fountain are 3.5 meters high. The fountain, shells and pearl, and human beings symbolize the image of this city. Beihai is a coastal city, and it is the original producing area of Nanzhu which has superior quality in China pearl market.
In the west city, Baise, there is a statue of Juting copper drummer. Juting copper drummer is unearthed in 1972, having a diameter of 77.5 centimeter, and a height of 52 centimeter. Its body is ornamented with motifs of ferry boat, human beings with wings, and egret. The copper drummer is the representative work of Baise culture, and it is the prototype of the statue. The statue has a diameter of 13.6 meters and a height of 15.6 meters, a thickness of 8.9 meters, and a weight of 32 tons.
Except those landmarks, there are many other landmarks in other cities of Guangxi. In the future, there will be more landmarks which are the results of human intelligence, art and economy development.
