Songyi Theater / Beijing Guanzhuan Landscape Planning and Design Institution

Andreas Luco — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In the long river of literature and art, pine, as a common Chinese cultural image, frequently appears in poetry and painting works. Bai Juyi's poem " Pine in Court" does not write about pine trees in nature, but rather about ordinary pine trees in a courtyard. The planting method seems chaotic and "like wild things," but in reality, there is a hidden poetic meaning in the chaos. A merely demolished pine forest. There is a hill in west Rizhao, my hometown. It was originally a barren mountain, but my friend Mr. Yan Zanning spent 20 years changing it to a tea garden and naming it "Cloud Passing Hill". Mr. Yan invited me to do some new things for this garden. For the first time strolling in the garden, one suddenly enters a pine forest, where the pine trees are like those in Bai Juyi's "Ting Song", messy and lively. Although planted by humans, they look like wild animals.

Boundless Theater of Egret Bay / Beijing Guanzhuan Landscape Planning and Design Institution

Collin Chen — Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Egret Bay art museum is located in Rizhao, Shandong Province. It is located at the east foot of Wulian mountain, a famous Buddhist mountain. Mr. Su Dongpo visited the mountain many times during the reign of the governor of Mizhou, and left a good sentence of "its beauty does not reduce the wild geese". The construction concept of the town is to "reshape the relationship between man and nature". On a land area of 10000 mu, it combines the aesthetic space with the natural landscape and various business forms. After more than ten years of construction, it seems to be an ideal place for people to live. In the early spring of this year, Mr. Xu qunde, the founder of egret Bay, went on an outing with me. I talked to him about a building I had built before. There was a process photo. In the picture, there was a woven curved steel mesh floating lightly in the woods hidden by mist. Seeing this picture, Mr. Xu immediately said that there was a place in egret bay where one could be woven, which was located in the cherry blossom Valley mentioned above. Mr. Xu wants to build a building in the center of Cherry Valley as a place for music, dance, drama, and other artistic activities. He described to me that his ideal state is "nature is the best", the cherry tree is the main body, and the architecture is hidden in it. The two form a perfect relationship. As I understand it, this building is like a small thatched canopy hidden in deep mountains and lakes in Chinese landscape painting, facing the landscape with an elegant attitude, and taking nature as the soul.

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Songyi Theater / Beijing Guanzhuan Landscape Planning and Design Institution

Boundless Theater of Egret Bay / Beijing Guanzhuan Landscape Planning and Design Institution