Master I.M. Pei's works in Guangzhou?

Guangzhou Garden Hotel, designed by the world famous architect I.M. Pei, is the only work of master I.M. Pei born in Guangzhou. I.M. Pei 19 17 was born in Guangzhou, and 17 went to the United States to study architecture. His relationship with Guangzhou is concentrated in the design style of Guangzhou Garden Hotel.

In 1980s, Guangzhou put forward the name of "Flower City", and the Garden Hotel was born in this era. Although the name of Garden Hotel is not elegant, "Garden" has become the design concept of the hotel. Let it become a real "garden" with an area of 2 1 1,000 square meters. Therefore, Garden Hotel became one of the largest green garden hotels in China at that time.

The flower beds and kapok in the garden in front of the hotel were once a major symbol of the east of Guangzhou. Kapok is the image of Garden Hotel, and it has also become the symbol of the hotel. According to hotel records, this not only represents that the hotel was born in Guangzhou's Kapok City, but also symbolizes that the hotel is as tall and straight as Kapok in the era of reform and opening up.

I.M. Pei's design, combined with the shape of Lingnan kapok, defines the main building of the hotel as a Y-shaped structure. From the air, it looks like a blooming flower, and from the ground, it looks like a towering kapok tree. I.M. Pei, who is good at using glass, set up a dome awning at the main entrance of the Garden Hotel. The ceiling is made of criss-crossing metal strips, and each ceiling is embedded with glass bricks. Under the refraction of sunlight during the day and light passing through 1 320 glass bricks at night, the hotel is dazzling.

I.M. Pei later recommended Szeto Wai, a Hong Kong architect, to design the interior of Garden Hotel. On the basis of conforming to I.M. Pei's modernist design style as much as possible, Szeto Wai adopted the traditional marble murals in Foshan for decoration, and the stone murals later became the important works of art in the Garden Hotel. Among them, Dream of Red Mansions, a large-scale gold-encrusted mural near the hotel lobby 150 square meters, is the most famous. Mr. Jin Yong once left such an evaluation: "When you enter the Grand View Garden, you will be in Guo Rongfu."

This mural depicts the twelve women in Jinling, Grand View Garden. It is 24 meters long and 6 meters high. It used 256 pieces of black marble, and the weight of 200,000 pieces of gold foil was 2 kilograms. Guests sign in front of the murals, as if they are about to live in the bustling "Grand View Garden". Compared with the black gold mural, it is a mural of life scene in Guangdong water town carved on white marble, and the luxurious and simple contrast design is more impactful. The ceiling at the top of the center is decorated with a caisson, which consists of square columns painted with bright patterns and gold-plated dragons carved with wood. This pattern is modeled after the design of the top of the ancient palace in China.

Guangzhou Garden Hotel is one of the first three platinum five-star hotels in China and the only national brand hotel. After I.M. Pei's design was completed, the great man Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the hotel by himself. On August 28th, 1985, Guangzhou Garden Hotel officially opened, which has been a unique landmark in Guangzhou for 35 years.

■ Flower City, Garden Hotel, this city and this building bear the youth and memories of my generation. In my youth, friends' parties, lovers' dates, relatives' wedding banquets, company chambers of commerce, etc. are all closely linked with the Garden Hotel and grow together. Gratitude.