Guangzhou
Архитектура
От кирпичных рельефов академии Чэнь и минарета-маяка до «гальки» Захи Хадид, золотого кольца и библиотеки-стопки. Между ними — ар-деко отеля Айцюнь, аркады цилоу, красный кирпич Дуншанькоу и первый мост через реку.
Museum
Chen Clan Academy
The Chen Clan Academy is best known for its exquisite traditional Chinese architecture and rich decorative arts.
Theatre & culture
Guangzhou Opera House
Designed by Zaha Hadid, it's one of the largest opera houses in China.
Architecture
Oi Kwan Hotel
This Art Deco hotel, finished in 1937, was the tallest building in Guangzhou until 1967.
Museum
Canton Customs Mansion
The clock-towered building dates from 1916, but its museum traces Canton Customs back to its establishment in 1685 and through the tightly controlled Canton System. It marks the transformation of Guangzhou's waterfront from a Qing customs regime serving the Thirteen Factories into a modern treaty-port customs administration.
Architecture
White Swan Hotel
A luxury hotel on Shamian Island known for hosting international dignitaries.
Architecture
Guangzhou Circle
The world's tallest circular building, designed to resemble a jade bi-disc.
Architecture
Guangzhou Library
The Guangzhou Library is known for its unique architecture resembling a stack of books.
Museum
Guangzhou Museum of Art
The Guangzhou Museum of Art is renowned for its unique architecture featuring a facade made of 21,008 photovoltaic glass elements.
Museum
Guangdong Museum of Art, Bai'etan
Bai'etan branch of the Guangdong Museum of Art, inside the Greater Bay Area Art Center. The Ersha Island venue is a separate place.
Architecture
Chen Lianbo Mansion
This canal-side mansion belonged to banker and merchant leader Chen Lianbo, whose adjoining private landing allowed guests to arrive by launch. Its rooms hosted the Liwan Club, where commercial elites mixed business with politics before Chen’s armed Merchant Corps came into violent conflict with Sun Yat-sen’s government in 1924.
Architecture
Jinlun Guild Hall
The Qing guild hall of Guangzhou's silk weavers. The whole building was later slid to a new site so a road tunnel could pass.
Street & district
Longjin West Road Qilou Block
Numbers 55–67 form an unusually intact Republican-era row of four-story qilou shop-houses, their sheltered pavement carried beneath residences and Ionic-style columns. The block records the transformation of Longjin from a waterside settlement into a modern commercial road after its expansion around 1930, while its ground-floor businesses still preserve the arcade’s original everyday purpose.
Street & district
Dongshankou and Xinhepu
Early-20th-century villa quarter in Dongshan, walked from the Xinhepu streets.
Architecture
Sun Yat-sen University South Campus
A large ensemble of 74 historic red-brick buildings from the Lingnan era.
Architecture
Chigang Pagoda
Chigang Pagoda was the last of Guangzhou's great river pagodas seen by ships sailing from Whampoa toward the walled city and the Thirteen Factories. Its carved figures include distinctly foreign-looking tower bearers, an unusual architectural reminder of the overseas merchants who followed this route.
Bridge
Haixin Bridge
Pedestrian bridge across the Pearl River between Zhujiang New Town and the Canton Tower side.
Museum
Liwan Museum (Chen Lianzhong Residence)
Silk merchant and HSBC comprador Chen Lianzhong built this hybrid mansion with European arches, columns and a Chinese garden beside the old waterways. Now incorporated into Liwan Museum, it stands beside a reconstructed Xiguan mansion whose interiors explain how wealthy merchant families actually lived behind their imposing doors.
Church
Yangji Yuxu Palace and Ancestral Hall Square
Before demolition, this roughly 900-year-old village housed about 5,000 local residents and more than 15,000 migrants in a maze of rental buildings. A three-year dispute ended when the final holdout house was demolished in August 2013; Yuxu Palace remained as the sole old structure while the clan halls were reconstructed together beside the new residential towers.
