The Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, paintings, calligraphy, and handmade crafts in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, and one of the most visited museums in the world, drawing more than two million visitors in 2018. Its Folk Branch occupies the Bei family ancestral temple near the Lion Grove Garden, while its Western New Pavilion was designed by the renowned architect I. M. Pei and completed in 2006.
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Source Wikipedia: Suzhou Museum
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Source Wikipedia: Suzhou Museum
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1. Wikipedia: Suzhou Museum
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The Western New Pavilion was designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei and was completed and opened in 2006.
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is a museum of ancient Chinese art, paintings, calligraphy and handmade crafts in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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The Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, paintings, calligraphy, and handmade crafts in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, and one of the most visited museums in the world, drawing more than two million visitors in 2018. Its Folk Branch occupies the Bei family ancestral temple near the Lion Grove Garden, while its Western New Pavilion was designed by the renowned architect I. M. Pei and completed in 2006.
Designed By: I. M. Pei, Architecture section, first sentence
The Suzhou Museum building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei in association with Pei Partnership Architects.
Uses Element: Stucco, Wikipedia article
The essence of the old city is represented in the sloping roofs, a traditional color palette of black, white, and gray and traditional white stucco walls.
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