City looks downward to create new space
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with more cities in China finding it increasingly difficult to identify land for development, Wuhan has begun construction of the country’s largest “underground city.”
Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, has chosen US architectural and interior design firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to design the complex, its urban construction authority said yesterday.
It will cost an estimated 8 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion), have three floors and a total construction area of 516,000 square meters, the equivalent of 72 soccer fields.
The underground section is scheduled to be completed in 2018 and will be connected to a ground structure and urban transport systems, including four Metro lines. Its walkways will be lined with stores, cinemas, fitness clubs and other entertainment facilities.
The complex has been named “Optical Valley Central City” after Optical Valley, China’s biggest photoelectron information industry base in the city.
Jian Jianyong, deputy head of the project’s management committee, said the complex was being built in a new district in the southeast of the city and is expected to improve the city’s urban capacity, land use efficiency and reduce traffic congestion.
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