Song Art Museum, Dongcheng Qu Beijing Building, Chinese Architecture, Images
Song Art Museum in Dongcheng Qu, Beijing
8 Mar 2021
Beijing’s Song Art Museum
Design: Vermilion Zhou Design Group
Location: Dongcheng Qu, Beijing, China

photo © Zhi Xia
The original architecture of Victorian style with Western-style gardens, like a woman with excessive makeup, is out of fashion. The owner?s intention is to transform its function into an artistic space for the public to appreciate. Our first step was to remove all the necklaces, earrings, clothing, and decorations to show it in its purest form.

photo © Zhi Xia
With the entire base of the Song Art Museum shaped like a Chinese long scroll, the architects reorganized the relationship between the building and the courtyards.
photo © Jonathan Leijonhufvud
Vermilion Zhou Design Group scattered 199 pine trees within. With the art gallery as the main building, and restored classical buildings and placed archways to the left and right, which not only realizes the owner?s preference but also positions the oriental style of the museum.

photo © Jonathan Leijonhufvud
Leaving blank space is the highest artistic concept in the art of Chinese painting, whereas geometrical form is the most objective expression of Western logic and thought.

photo © Jonathan Leijonhufvud
For the architecture of the gallery, we removed the Western symbolism to give the purest white, and we used several different geometric structures to connect an...