I'd been meaning to go to Guangzhou for a while. I thought I'd immerse myself in a market town, a factory city, but instead I found myself in the center of a garden city.
Indeed, a clean, green, beautiful garden city.
All in skyscrapers, like neighboring Hong Kong.
All in construction sites, creating a somewhat futuristic image of the metropolis.
And flowers in November... More precisely, all year round.
It's great to work in an office like this and relax on the park lawn at the entrance, isn't it?
All around there are overpasses (pedestrian and automobile) decorated with flowers and wild plants.
Judging by everything, the streets of the business center are in the final stages of development. However, everything here is rapidly changing and being rebuilt. It could be unrecognizable in 20 years.
We will get to know Guangzhou only by its main landmarks.
It's nice to walk around such a business center.
The building of the New Public City Library
The famous Canton Tower, 610 meters high, with one of the highest outdoor observation decks in the world (at a height of 488 m)
The city is incredibly clean. They wash it with a special soap solution, consistently using a wide variety of equipment. And about 40 people work on an area of approximately 100x100 meters.
Some views evoke a futuristic picture in the imagination, you know, a city of the future where a spaceship landed right in the center of the garden city...
In fact, this is what Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid's design masterpiece, the Guangzhou Opera House, looks like.
The refined figures of modern art tickle the eye,
scattered here and there...
What emotions do these sculptures evoke in you?
The Chinese actively take photos with them in the background, often imitating, and always standing in random queues for selfies...)
The architectural forms of the Opera are stunning from any angle.
However, just like the neighboring buildings, like this Guangzhou Second Children Palace, with its huge interactive wall-screen that broadcasts advertisements and all sorts of important and unimportant videos at night;
Or the International Finance Center (IFC), the tallest building in Guangzhou (438 m)
Incidentally, it's the largest city in southern China, with a population of over 14 million. On a Friday afternoon, it's certainly not very crowded (by Chinese standards), but once you take the subway…
Would you like to take a photo with the New Town in the background?
The Lady with the Dog
Tired. )
The IFC is certainly a beautiful skyscraper. There's an observation deck at the very top, and, by the way, a bar you can easily access if you want.
On the other side, on a tiny island that once housed a People's Liberation Army garrison and is likely to soon become home to a luxury hotel,
The Arena where the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Summer Asian Games (the so-called Asiada) were held still stands.
In fact, I didn’t see anything special about this structure.
This multi-level complex accommodates 35,000 visitors. The views from the top deck must be spectacular.
The Chinese, on the other hand, actively take pictures of themselves against the backdrop of the left pillar, the right wing, etc.
Just recently, people even paid a token fee for the privilege of taking a selfie here. Now even the security guards are bored.
The island is tiny, except for the arena itself, a large flowerbed in the center, hiding the underground complex,
and a designer boat in the corner, there's nothing else here.
But you still have to take a selfie!
Well, what's your impression? Isn't it beautiful?
Source: travel.ru