Designed by Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering, Ark of Light city exhibition hall, which covers an area of 950? (floor area, with the site area of 20000?), is located at the commercial core of Lijia new area, the riverbank of Jialing River and the new center of Chongqing, next to the only waterfront low-density business district of Chongqing and top residential area in the future.
Main Exhibition Hall – Photography: Shengliang Su
Ark of Light is first used as the sales center of LongFor Waterfront City, and later it will become a city hall opened to the public, in which commercial practice and art exhibitions will be carried out, aiming to represent the coming high-level city life in Chongqing.
Photography: Shengliang Su Ark and Stone are epitomes, both physically and spiritly, of the landscaped city Chongqing. Therefore, taking the inspiration of ?Ark of Light, Stone of Memory?, the architects converts natural and cultural features of the city with integrated design including architecture, space and landscape, and at the same time deliver the new image of Chongqing city with futuristic avant-garde form.
Bird Eye View, Courtesy of Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering
To get a complete indoor space without pillars and a free architecture figure, the construction engineer used truss structure reaching the length of 34 meters, thus the roof could be stretched out as far as 15 meters.

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