Something old, something new
By: Mavros, Kara
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Publisher: New York BNP Media 2020Edition: February 11, 2020.Description: 50-53p.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural recordSummary: As a city founded over 3,000 years ago, Beijing has a culture that hinges on its relationship to its rich past. Architecturally speaking, the depth of that connection, according to Ma Yansong, lies in the negative spaces. The founder and principal of Beijing-based MAD Architects is specifically talking about the firm’s recently completed Courtyard Kindergarten, an unusual school that surrounds and preserves a group of 300-year-old residences in a traditional siheyuan courtyard (one surrounded on all four sides). “That’s the beauty of the city,” he says. “It’s about emptiness between the buildings, not
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As a city founded over 3,000 years ago, Beijing has a culture that hinges on its relationship to its rich past. Architecturally speaking, the depth of that connection, according to Ma Yansong, lies in the negative spaces. The founder and principal of Beijing-based MAD Architects is specifically talking about the firm’s recently completed Courtyard Kindergarten, an unusual school that surrounds and preserves a group of 300-year-old residences in a traditional siheyuan courtyard (one surrounded on all four sides). “That’s the beauty of the city,” he says. “It’s about emptiness between the buildings, not
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