Artist Gareth Fuller spent a year walking the streets of Beijing, meticulously drawing a map of the city ... s map shows the area around the Forbidden City, the ancient Chinese palace complex ...

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Based on a drawing by ... The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Palace Museum, Beijing, 1 April-30 June ...

The Forbidden City, located in the centre of Beijing is the supreme model in the development ... including written records, drawings and models, are evidence of the court culture and law and ...

As I wandered the palace grounds, the juxtaposition of ancient architecture against Beijing’s skyline—a forest of glass and steel—epitomized China’s dynamic balance between tradition and progress. The ...

The city of Beijing is planned on a north-south grid ... Just north of the square lies the Imperial Palace (Gugong), also known as the Forbidden City as it was the private dwelling of the Ming ...

Some of the largest stones used to construct Beijing’s Forbidden City beginning in 1406 were hauled from distant quarries on wooden sledges along ice roads, ancient Chinese documents have revealed.