Video: What ancient ciphers are kept by the tallest round skyscraper built in China
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many round-shaped houses have been built in the world, but Guangzhou-Yuan is the most incredible and unique. It is the tallest round building on Earth. The height of the giant donut house is 138 meters, and the diameter of its "hole" is 48 meters. In Chinese, this skyscraper is called Guangzhou-Yuan, which translates simply: "Ring of Guangzhou."
The building was erected seven years ago in China by a team of specialists led by the architect of the Milan bureau AM Project Joseph di Pasquale.
Guangzhou Yuan stands on the banks of the Pearl River, and if you look at it from afar, it seems that this huge wheel is rolling along the coast. It looks especially impressive in the dark, when the round skyscraper is illuminated.
Together with its reflection in the water, the ring-shaped building forms a figure eight, and this is not an accident. The architect specially designed it in such a way that it looked like a sign of infinity, because the Chinese love such symbols so much, and the eight, moreover, is a lucky number for the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun.
When developing the project, the architect Joseph di Pasquale wanted the building, on the one hand, to be modern, and on the other, to be in harmony with the mentality and culture of the locals. In addition to the idea of the figure eight, this project recalls an important Chinese artifact - the ancient jade disc Bi. Such items were quite common in ancient China. There are various versions about their initial significance for the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun, but it is known for sure that the presence of a jade disc in a person in ancient times indicated the high moral qualities of the owner and his high status.
Despite the fact that officially this round house is not considered a skyscraper (the height of the building does not reach the 150 meters required for this status), it is still accepted to call it that. And they also say about him "House-bagel", "House-ring" and "House-donut". And, of course, "House-wheel" and "House-disk".
The skyscraper (after all, we will call it that) has 33 floors. The building houses the head office of the Hong Da Xing Ye Group chemical company and the Guangdong Plastic Trading Exchange, which occupies 2.2 thousand square meters and is located directly under the opening of the circular building. There are also many offices, a huge shopping center, and, of course, an expensive hotel on the upper floors.
The main facades of the building are glass. Copper is used as a facing material. The side fronts are also made of glass (vertical glazed rectangles). The entrance parts of the building are interspersed with the recessed parts, which gives the round house an interesting heterogeneous structure: it seems as if it is fluted, and this makes the round skyscraper even more like a patterned jade disk.
In Russia, of course, so far there are no such skyscrapers, but there are other round-shaped buildings. We suggest reading about how round houses appeared in Moscow and whether it is convenient to live in them.
Recommended:
What secrets are kept in the most pompous tenement house for the elite, built 100 years ago in St. Petersburg
This stately house on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt is one of the architectural masterpieces built in the northern capital by the father of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau Fyodor Lidval. The building is decorated with mushrooms, animals, owls and other interesting elements. At the beginning of the last century, it was one of the most pompous apartment buildings erected in St. Petersburg for the elite. And even now it is very prestigious to live here
Why was an octagonal house built in St. Petersburg, or What secrets are kept by the "well" on the Petrograd side
There is one amazing pre-revolutionary house in the city on the Neva. When viewed from a bird's eye view, it looks like an octagon. And, of course, it was built according to the "proprietary" St. Petersburg principle of houses-wells. This beautiful and mysterious building is located on Maly Avenue of the Petrogradskaya Side. Why did the architects design the house in this particular shape? There are two versions: mystical and real
The most interesting ciphers of the past: What was the cryptography of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages
If in a specially selected book one marks individual letters with a needle - slightly, almost imperceptibly - so that read one after another, they form a certain message, then it will turn out … no, not yet a cipher, but only its predecessor. Such "book" messages were left even before the onset of a new era. However, they also began to encrypt the text, that is, to turn it into something incomprehensible
What secrets are kept in the flooded ancient city of Shichen in China
In the Chinese province of Zhejiang, about one hundred and fifty kilometers from Hangzhou, there is the beautiful Qiandaohu Lake or Thousand Island Lake. This stunning beauty is by no means a work of the Creator, but the work of human hands. Only six decades ago, the valley was flooded in order to build a hydroelectric power plant. As a result, a little more than a thousand islets were formed, from which the lake got its romantic name. But the most interesting thing about this beautiful place is not what it finds
Big Buddha - tallest statue in the world (Leshan, China)
There are countless Buddha statues around the world, but there is one that has gained worldwide fame. This is the Big Buddha in Leshan (Sichuan province, China), a giant stone sculpture carved into the thickness of the rock in Lingyunshan Mountain. Today this attraction is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List