Suzhou Museum

The ancient river city of Suzhou, known as the “Venice” of China, was the ancestral home of this new art museum’s Chinese-American architect. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens. Designed in local stone and stucco, to reflect the historic vernacular scale and form, the project incorporates, at its center, a contemporary water garden incorporating all these traditional elements.

At the same time, the museum was designed to provide controlled daylighting for both galleries and public spaces, and to ensure modern appropriate conservation criteria for light and UV exposure, and flexibility for changing exhibits.