What does ‘renewal’ mean in the Chinese cultural context? It is a state of mind. Change is constant, and Chinese cultural tradition itself determines its continuousness in the doctrine of ‘change within the unchanged’. Under the point of view of what has changed in architecture over the last forty years, the Pavilion shows the peculiar symbiotic renewal of China of life, architecture, city, and nature. Through the ‘viewing’, ‘unfolding’, and ‘contemplating’ of the Pavilion, visitors may use to find answers to modern problems and to imagine the future. Renewal is an architectural enigma.
