From The New York Times:
For I. M. Pei(貝聿銘), the sprawling white stucco museum that opened to great fanfare here this weekend is both a possible swan song and a second chance.
The only other building he has ever designed in mainland China, a luxury hotel completed in Beijing in 1982, was a disappointment that he says was rescued only by its beautiful setting in the woods. “I was saved by the trees,” he said ruefully in an interview Saturday afternoon.
This time Mr. Pei believes he has succeeded, he said. Returning to his ancestral home 100 miles northwest of Shanghai, he has designed a $40 million building that he hopes will help point the way toward a new type of architecture in the world’s fastest-growing economy, a building that is Chinese in spirit yet ultimately modern.
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See photo and introduction(in Chinese) of Beijing Xiang Shan Hotel designed by I.M.Pei in 1982, click here.
(Photo of I.M.Pei)
