Studio Zhu Pei   China   In 798, an entire cultural district located on land which was formerly occupied by Soviet factories, a new art museum completes the program offered by a series of existing sheds. The building’s structure presents brickwork that respects the industria

Studio Zhu Pei   China   In an area located far from the city, a small museum is organized like a traditional Chinese house, surrounding a courtyard protected by the generous eaves of perimetral constructions. Resting on the stone walls that rise from a pool of water accordi

Studio Zhu Pei   China   Beijing-based Studio Zhu-Pei has built this performing arts center for the city of Dali, an important tourist destination and a significant stop on the Silk Road, in China’s Yunnan province. Curves on the huge, cantilevering rectangular roof are mode

Studio Zhu Pei   China   Close to the ruins of what was the most important porcelain factory during the Ming Dynasty, a new museum echoes the forms and materials of traditional pottery-making ovens. The concrete vaults are clad in bricks left over from previous constructions

Studio Zhu Pei   China   A rectangular prism with a hermetic appearance altered only by random perforations is home to a large art center that aspires to be the banner of a provincial city’s cultural blossoming. With its interior streets and open courtyards, the building is

The Chinese architect Zhu Pei, born in 1962 and trained at Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley, set up his practice in Beijing in 2005, and from there he has produced an extraordinary corpus of cultural works that have made him one of the leading fig

The Beijing studio Zhu-Pei has built a museum adjacent to what is left of the thousand-year-old imperial pottery-making complex of the prefectural city of Jingdezhen, a porcelain capital of the world, China’s Sevrès. The building is composed of a ser