Siheyuan

Beijing projects' adviser puts down 1881 Heritage

12 Mar 2012

A Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress who helped turn a historic palace in Beijing into a heritage hotel says a similar project in Hong Kong failed to achieve proper conservation...

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A house that doubt built

15 Feb 2012

A dilapidated courtyard house demolished in central Beijing last year was not the first to fall victim to a developer's bulldozers.

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The Courtyard House

23 Oct 2011

One sweltering day in southern Italy, as I was traipsing around the ruins of Pompeii, I wandered through the door of a 2,000-year-old home, and was immediately struck by the coolness of the air...

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Come up and see my architecture

2 Nov 2007

Designer Priscilla Chen presented the second edition of her book on Beijing's traditional quadrangle houses with an exhibition at the Exchange Square's Rotunda featuring life-size models of the...

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Hip to be square

30 Sep 2007

Six years ago, Priscilla Chen wrote, illustrated and published a book about Beijing's traditional quadrangle houses.

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Hotel Cote Cour SL, Beijing

24 Jun 2007

Where is it? Halfway down one of Beijing's more picturesque hutongs, the newly opened Hotel Cote Cour SL, is a beautifully restored, four-sided courtyard house, or siheyuan. It is superbly...

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