Surging Wave Pavilion Garden. Suzhou, China.
"Canglang Pavilion is the oldest garden among all the existing gardens in Suzhou. In 1044, or the fourth year of the Qingli reign of the Song Dynasty, Su Shunqin, a renowned poet, had this pavilion built by the water..." Source: China Travel Designer Website.
Nobody does garden doors quite like these Chinese scholars. They use them to frame compositions of plants, mark the separation between sections, and guide us through the landscape. Their shape, width, and construction have been refined over millennia based on....