Sunday, January 18, 2015






     This magnificent building is Ningbo History Museum, in Ningbo, China.  It was built in 2008.  It was designed by multiple awarded Chinese architects' Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu (his wife). Also Wang was the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. The concept was "Architecture as mountains" that how Wang described. All materials were used from recycle items that left over by other construction work's sites. Textures, shapes and colors are defined by the natural landscape and the architecture. It was contemporary although the building profiles and roofs were reminded of Chinese temple roofs.  This building is compelling originality that address to the future, but draw meaning and value from the past.  It also send the important signal to the rest of the world of his distinctive architecture language that speak to everyone.  That language is shuttle and rich, new and old, and modern and traditional. Wang inspired by Chinese calligraphy that allow him to expresses the building's key moments of space and circulation as natural. The originally is not the common place.  You will not never see something like this before.  Wang is the one and only one. 


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