Great Building. About 27.5 kilometers from the city's Luchaogang area in Nanhui District, Lingang is poised to play an important part in the Northeast Asia shipping industry, particularly when the Yangshan port becomes fully operational later this year. The concept adopts the ideals of the traditional European city, combining them with a revo-lutionary idea: A circular lake with a 2.5 km diameter forms the core.
The city will be divided into five functional parts: the main city area, heavy equipment industry area, logistics area, main industry area and mixed-use area. The city will also serve as a platform for six industrial manufacturing bases: automobiles, heavy equipment, logistics equipment, aviation equipment, and photoelectric equipment.
Project planners have projected the city's value-added potential to be 23.5 billion yuan (US$2.93 billion) by 2010, industrial output value at 50 billion yuan (US$6.23 billion), and financial revenue at 3 billion (US$373 million).The image of concentric waves, produced by a drop hitting the water surface, is the principle metaphoric image of the overall city structure.
The use structure is divided into radial rings from the inside to the outside: promenade, business district with high density, 500 meter wide ring-shaped city park, block-like residential districts for 13,000 people each situated along radial roads accord-ing to the principle of a compass card. Wedges of landscape reach into the city as far as the second ring. Watercourses and small lakes penetrate all districts.Lingang will be built on an island at the entrance of Hangzhou Bay, connected to the main city center by Donghai Bridge.
Preferential policies will apply, and there are plans to include free trade zones and export processing zones.
Competition: 2002/2003 – 1st Prize
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan
Partner: Nikolaus Goetze
Client: Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau
Construction period since 2003
Area: 74 km2
Future inhabitants 800,000
