hopePlate 089 · Suzhou, China

Suzhou Museum

A museum of white walls and grey roofs, because Pei went home to design a garden.

2006 · I. M. Pei · Asia

The chamber score

Ambush from Ten Sides

Pipa traditional · Ming

Courtyards as strategy.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Pei's last major work, a contemporary garden-museum in his ancestral city.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Suzhou Museum through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Suzhou Museum was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.