Best quotes by Ma Yansong on City

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• ‟ 'Shan shui' you can literally translate as 'mountain and water.' In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we're talking about a shan-shui city.

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• ‟ The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

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• ‟ When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

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• ‟ A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

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• ‟ I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden - the Forbidden City - and the lakes and gardens in the city center were all artificial.

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