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Street view of Beijing with Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing, China.

This space-age skyscraper looms over Chaoyang Park like something that’s escaped from a sci-fi movie, until you realise it was inspired by traditional Chinese shanshui (literally ‘water mountain’) paintings. Chaoyang Park Plaza was designed as an extension of the garden landscape below, delivering a larger-than-life interpretation of the mountains and waterfalls depicted in those ancient ink masterpieces.