Arrows

Taken in the Suzhou Museum.

 

The Suzhou Museum was designed by one of its most famous sons, the prominent Chinese architect I.M. Pei. It was completed in 2006. This tribute to his birthplace and home town was his last project before his retirement.

 

While a lot of Chinese art and stylings are traditionally based around circles and smooth lines, I.M. Pei works primarily with triangles and sharper lines, and frequently with glass, steel and concrete. He received the very prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, considered by many to be the Nobel Prize of architecture.

 

Having worked on countless projects all across the globe, major works of his include the Pyramids at the Louvre, completed in 1989, and the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, which opened in 1990 and is a centrepiece of the Hong Kong skyline.

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