Alila Yangshuo Hotel, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China
Dong Gong
Chinese, born 1972
2013–2017
Dong Gong’s digital photograph records Vector Architects’ Alila Yangshuo Hotel, aiming to show how a contemporary resort is quietly integrated into the dramatic karst landscape.
You notice a long, low building tucked against a towering, verdant conical peak so the hotel’s horizontal form and reflective surfaces read as a gentle, almost deferential interruption in the mountain’s vertical sweep.
The image speaks to a recent strand of architecture that seeks to reconcile modern design and tourism with sensitive treatment of local topography, using photography to argue for landscape-driven building strategies.
Medium
Digital photograph
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Department
Credit
Gift of Dong Gong / Vector Architects
Accession
295.2020.3
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