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Located in the cultural center of Nanjing and in the immediate proximity of the historical Presidential Palace of today?s provincial capital, the new Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum is one of the most important museums in south-east China. It has space for temporary exhibitions and houses a permanent collection featuring traditional Chinese art, which illustrates the cultural wealth of Nanjing ? one of the oldest cities in southern China.
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The sizable collection is kept in archive rooms in the Museum, which meet today?s technical and strict conservation requirements. Having previously designed the National Library of China in Beijing, the German company KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten has now completed its second significant cultural building in China. Courtesy of KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten – section
The eye-catching new museum, which won first prize in a competition in 2006, takes up a several urban references from its deeply historical location. The main entrance faces the main city square, Daxing Gong Shi Min Square. In addition, the two structures of the Museum that stand at slight angles to one another follow the two flanking thor- oughfares: Zhongshan (or Revolution) Road, and Changjiang (or Culture) Road.
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The two interlocking u-shaped buildings also create a space that is covered with a light glass roof....