Once the stylish retreats of China’s elite, Suzhou’s gardens demonstrate the precision and creativity of Eastern horticultural design. Known internationally as the Venice of the East ...
The dinky Master of the Nets Garden (Wang Shi Yuan), off Shiquan ... so rose the demand for luxury goods, and Suzhou was soon China’s leading silk producer. The Silk Museum tells this story ...
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Chinese classical gardens were striving for harmony rather than control. In Suzhou, the bureaucratic heart of imperial China, gardens like the Humble ...
Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is the first Ming Dynasty-style ... over the course of 13 months by 53 master craftsmen from Suzhou, including architects, masons, tilers and painters.
SUZHOU – Singapore and China inked a 10-year blueprint for their ... planting that had been carried out at the Singapore Botanic Gardens two weeks prior by Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong ...
Open Architecture drew inspiration from Classical Chinese gardens for Shanfeng Academy, a culture and sports centre in Suzhou. The complex features a theatre, gallery, library, cafe, sports ...