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NewsNews • 6 Jun 2022

The Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove abstracts the form of site trees to develop a purely geometric language

Located in Shanwan Village, Suzhou, China, the Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove is an iconic small single-story project of the governmental rural revitalization program aimed at promoting local agriculture, culture, and tourism. Softly blending in the waterside landscape and carrying a delicate rustic texture, the restaurant is more landscape than architecture as it sits immersed into its natural context. Caption The first developed phase of the entire project, the building is located at the west end of the site. It operates not only as a restaurant but also a small multi-functional banquet hall that can accommodate various public events.  Caption A distinctive element of the landscape is a grove of metasequoia trees located... More