Alila Yangshuo Hotel, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China
Dong Gong
Chinese, born 1972
Shengliang Su
Chinese
2013–2017
A digital photograph that shows how the Alila Yangshuo hotel's designers pair board‑formed concrete with a woven bamboo canopy to mediate between interior space and the surrounding karst landscape.
You first register the warm, ribbed bamboo vault and its lace of shadows across the cool concrete floor, while an arched opening frames the lush, jagged limestone cliffs so the outside reads like a living panorama.
The work illustrates a contemporary architectural approach that blends modern concrete tectonics with local craft—reviving bamboo as a sustainable, structural and poetic element and rethinking hospitality as landscape integration rather than isolated form.
Medium
Digital photograph
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Department
Credit
Gift of Dong Gong / Vector Architects
Accession
295.2020.5
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