• CROX designs aluminium-clad museum shaped like an instrument

    CROX designs aluminium-clad museum shaped like an instrument
    The curvaceous, aluminium-clad form of Liyang Museum in China was designed by architecture practice CROX to look like a traditional musical instrument.
    The museum sits in a landscape of undulating green hills alongside a lake in Jiangsu province.CROX wanted to translate the sound of an ancient Chinese instrument called the guqin, a seven-stringed zither, into the shape of the building.
    Thin strips of aluminium cladding in varying shades of brown recall the carved wood of the musical instrum
  • Dezeen's top 10 pavilions of 2019

    Dezeen's top 10 pavilions of 2019
    Next up in our review of 2019, Daria Casalini picks out the year's 10 most impressive pavilions, including a floating circular staircase and a fibre-composite structure built by two robots.
    Stone 27, USA, by Benjamin Langholz
    Benjamin Langholz arranged huge stones in an ascending circle for a pavilion at this year's Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada.
    A central pillar and three pairs of steel columns support the basalt stones, forming a "floating walk" designed to make visitors' experience "

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