Traditional Chinese pavilion is normally a covered small structure with little or no wall. These open structures were initially erected at the roadside in the Warring States era more than 2,200 years ago as shelters for soldiers. After China was reunited under the Qin, a unified postal system was established, and roadside pavilions were used for the government postmen on […]
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If you think it’s a small woods by the roadside in Shenzhen, you are wrong. It is a public toilet surrounded by plants. If you think this is an ancient Chinese city wall with gates, you are wrong. It’s a public toilet in China. If you think this is an art gallery or museum, you are wrong. This is a […]
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Four Architects from Beijing It was in the mid-1980s, the day two weeks before Chinese New Year. On a dirt road of a remote mountainous area in the backward Anhui Province, four architects from Beijing were jam-packed in a small trailer box drawn by a motorbike. They got up before dawn and spent hours in a queue at the county’s bus station […]
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