Hints and tips:
...That dazzling white, lit by the brilliant southern sun, forms the backdrop to the trellises of vines and pots of oleanders and rosemary....
...Gideon talks to Chinese-American academic Minxin Pei about China’s reaction to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan....
...Ren and Sun championed a style of independent leadership that the party was keen to discourage, said Pei....
...In China, things are looking more promising, said Jane Sun, chief executive of Trip.com, the Chinese online booking site “We have seen a very strong rebound . . . which we are very excited about.”...
...The brick vaults of Studio Zhu-Pei’s Imperial Kiln Museum in Jingdezhen look like hypertrophied roof tiles, a striking homage to the historic potteries....
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...The show is on until April 30 at Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, now marking its 10th anniversary in IM Pei’s ziggurat-like building in a waterfront park....
...Timeship’s central cone, made from gold-mirrored glass, represents the sun and the phoenix, a symbol of resurrection and life eternal....
...“This time round it’s a severe downturn, and at the same time there’s also a structural shift” with China “rising and taking over the jackup market”, says Pei Hwa Ho, analyst at DBS....
...This crystalline second skin both shades the interior from the sun and converts the sun’s rays into power in one of the multiple measures to make this an exemplary green building....
...The whole thing is surrounded by a vast louvred sun-canopy sheltering its glazed interior and the plaza around it from the searing Texas sun....
...It has been conceived as a space with six faces, its floor as a kind of carpet, the arcaded buildings that frame it, and a “flip-up” shading structure above, that can allow more or less sun in....
...Pei dog bit him and he was rushed to hospital....
...There are also traditional thick walls to provide thermal mass and give deep windows to shade interiors from the searing sun....
...And they struggled to find a substitute for qing sun, a plump lettuce stem used as a vegetable: in the end they used the jade-like interiors of broccoli stalks....
...Pei, who went on to design Mitterrand’s Louvre pyramid....
...In every district, agents stood on corners, squinting in the south China sun, distributing flyers of available properties....
...Remember Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Republic of China. Look at rumbustiously democratic Taiwan....
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