After years of painstaking restoration, a new section of Beijing's Forbidden City will be opened to the public for the first time in 2020. The Qianlong Garden, in the northeast section of the ...

Selldorf Architects will design the Qianlong Garden Interpretation Center within a palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has never been opened to the public. The Selldorf ...

Beijing's Forbidden City is a treasure trove of priceless antiquities. Behind the scenes, it takes a team of skilled workers and modern science to preserve and repair the historic artefacts.

BEIJING — Beijing’s Forbidden City – traditionally off-limits at night for anyone except emperors, ghosts and visiting dignitaries – was lit up with lanterns and gasps after dark Tuesday ...

Fire posed the greatest danger to the Forbidden City, as it was constructed almost entirely from wood. With the palace at constant risk of sabotage and accidental blazes, it was essential to be ...

Until the expulsion, in 1924, of Puyi, the last emperor of China, the treasures of the Forbidden City were largely unknown to the Chinese people. As Puyi left, curatorial teams swiftly moved in to ...