Through an international design competition, Wang Shu won first place to design and built the Ningbo History Museum dedicated to the history of humanities and the arts on the east coast of China.

Above: Ningbo History Museum, 2003-2008, Ningbo, China His parents’ pursuits sparked an interest in Wang Shu for materials, crafts and literature. When he was a teenager, he had to travel ...

This "Asian Combat Command Center" in the drama towers like a castle; in real life, the building is the Ningbo Museum in China's Zhejiang Province, a unique city landmark designed by Wang Shu.

Wang Shu, 49, is interested in preservation ... Wang's design for the Ningbo History Museum came to him at 3 in the morning. He realized his job was to show people what their city used to look ...

Editor’s Note: Wang Shu became the first Chinese architect ... His buildings include Ningbo History Museum and the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art. Now in modern China all the ...

Wang Shu, 48, whose Hangzhou-based firm Amateur ... One of his most celebrated buildings, the Ningbo Historic Museum, used recycled materials collected from the nearby area to construct a modern ...

An exterior view of the Ningbo History Museum, designed by the Chinese architect Wang Shu.Credit:AP Photo/Amateur Architecture St The Ningb­o Histo­ry Museu­m, a build­ing desig­ned by Chine ...

Wang Shu, a 48-year-old Chinese architect whose work explores ... Their most impressive project, the Ningbo History Museum (2008), combines tilting fortress-like forms with walls made of different ...

Wang clearly takes pride in his Ningbo Museum design, especially when telling ... and it will flourish with time," and this is how Wang Shu views relations between architecture, time and nature.

Wang Shu, 48, whose Hangzhou-based firm Amateur ... One of his most celebrated buildings, the Ningbo Historic Museum, used recycled materials collected from the nearby area to construct a modern ...