Heritage with Related Tags
Gonbad-e Qābus
Built in 1006 AD as the tomb of Qaboos ibn Washemjir, a Ziyarid ruler and man of letters, this 53-meter-high mausoleum is located near the site of the ancient city of Jorghan in northeastern Iran and bears witness to cultural exchange between the nomadic peoples of Central Asia and the ancient civilization of Iran. The tower is the only remaining evidence of Jorghan, a former center of art and science that was destroyed during the Mongol invasions of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is an outstanding, technically innovative example of Islamic architecture that influenced religious architecture in Iran, Anatolia, and Central Asia. Built of unglazed fired bricks, the monument’s complex geometry forms a tapered cylinder 17-15.5 meters in diameter, topped by a conical brick roof. It illustrates the development of mathematics and science in the Muslim world at the turn of the first millennium AD.
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
The property is a historic sericulture and silk mill complex built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. It consists of four sites corresponding to different stages of raw silk production: a large raw silk reeling mill with machinery and industrial expertise imported from France; an experimental farm where silkworm cocoons were produced; a school where knowledge of sericulture was disseminated; and a silkworm seed cold storage facility. The site embodies Japan’s desire to rapidly acquire the best mass production technology and was a decisive factor in the renaissance of Japan’s sericulture and silk industry in the last quarter of the 19th century. The Tomioka Silk Mill and its associated sites became a center of innovation in raw silk production, marking Japan’s entry into the modern industrialized era, making it the world’s largest exporter of raw silk, especially to Europe and the United States.
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Much of Cornwall and West Devon’s landscape was transformed by the rapid development of copper and tin mining in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns, small farms, ports and harbours, and their supporting industries, together reflect a wealth of innovation that enabled the region to produce two-thirds of the world’s copper in the early 19th century. Numerous remains bear witness to Cornwall and West Devon’s contribution to the Industrial Revolution in the rest of Britain, and the region’s fundamental influence on the mining world as a whole. Cornish technology such as engines, engine houses and mining equipment was exported around the world. Cornwall and West Devon was at the heart of the rapid spread of mining technology.
Beijing Ceramic Art Museum
Beijing Ceramic Art Museum is a cultural and artistic institution with knowledge, education, popular science and mass appeal that promotes ceramic culture, appreciates ceramic art, conducts ceramic education and experiences ceramic life. It is a large-scale activity platform and a national AAA scenic spot that integrates product display, ceramic education, learning practice, cultural exchange, leisure and entertainment, and shopping experience. Based on the five national development concepts and the functional positioning of the capital's "four centers", Beijing Ceramic Art Museum is pioneering and innovative, building six modules of art, education, technology, life, tourism and animation with "ceramics +" as the industrial center, and making every effort to create an industrial cluster of education and training, cultural creativity, technological innovation, eco-tourism and animation communication with ceramic culture as the main line.
Beijing Automobile Museum
The Automobile Museum is located on the West Fourth Ring Road in the southwest of Fengtai District, with a total construction area of about 50,000 square meters. It has 13 exhibition areas, 44 exhibition themes, more than 50 interactive exhibits, and more than 80 exhibited cars in the collection. The Automobile Museum is the landmark building and core facility of the Beijing International Automobile Expo Center, with a construction area of about 49,000 square meters. It has functional exhibition areas such as automobile expo, theme exhibition, automobile science popularization, automobile entertainment, and academic exchanges. The exhibition displays on the fifth to third floors of the Automobile Museum are composed of three main lines: history, technology, and the future. The internal project settings of the museum are innovative, focusing on knowledge, participation, and entertainment. Through static and dynamic, flat and three-dimensional, three-dimensional and multi-dimensional, sound and image and other diverse forms, through visual, auditory, tactile and other participation methods to achieve educational enlightenment, so that the audience can understand the history and changes of modern automobiles, and then experience the characteristics and connotations of automobile technology and automobile culture. Provide a display space for popular science education, environmental education, and creativity and enterprising spirit for the majority of young people. On the one hand, a large number of exhibits, including cars, car supplies, car artworks and a wide variety of car derivatives from different historical periods at home and abroad, reflect the car technology and car culture of different eras; on the other hand, a large number of knowledgeable, participatory and entertaining popular science and entertainment projects are used to show the infinite charm and infinite fun of car technology. On the south side of the museum is a pleasant landscape building complex. The theme park is surrounded by an interface formed by water. The park is composed of a strong contrast of undulating terrain and a large area of water, forming a charming landscape of lakes and low hills, and strengthening the theme of the time and space corridor in various ways. The entire park consists of a network of main roads and auxiliary roads and the exhibition halls of various car brands cleverly embedded in it. The intertwined main roads and paths and the exhibition halls together determine the basic structure of the central park. It constitutes the framework of the exhibition halls as an organic whole. The landforms formed by this make the exhibition halls of various brands have their own different positions and characteristics. The landscape park with strong changes in shape will become a place for continuous and gentle movement and a place for contemplation and observation. At the same time, it also provides a stage for various changing events and activities. The brand exhibition hall is harmoniously integrated into the park landscape with water bodies and undulating terrain. The brand exhibition hall is to showcase the diversity of brands and cultures of world automobile manufacturers. This is the place where the legendary story of automobiles is told. This legendary place constitutes a unified structure, which is applicable to each brand exhibition hall. Each brand exhibition hall occupied by a famous automobile manufacturer should become a place for the corresponding company to display its own culture, values and corporate philosophy. The central centralized green space and the landmark building Automobile Museum in the north complement each other, forming a harmonious architectural landscape where artistic atmosphere and technological era atmosphere coexist. The architectural community of the automobile era is perfectly interpreted here. The construction of Beijing International Automobile Expo Center and Automobile Museum fills the gap in Beijing and even the whole country. As a carrier of cultural and creative industries and technological innovation, the growth potential of the industry itself is infinite, and it will also drive a series of related industries to follow up. The Fengtai District Government will take the preparation and construction of the Automobile Expo Center as an opportunity to carry out extensive exchanges and cooperation with people from all walks of life. We believe that through the sincere cooperation and unremitting efforts of all parties, the Beijing International Automobile Expo Center project will surely produce huge social and economic benefits, and become an internationally leading and first-class automobile culture center, automobile consumption center and automobile industry information center in the capital.