CROX designs aluminium-clad museum shaped like an instrument

The curvaceous, aluminium-clad form of Liyang Museum in China was designed by architecture practice CROX to look like a traditional musical instrument.
The museum sits in a landscape of undulating green hills alongside a lake in Jiangsu province.CROX wanted to translate the sound of an ancient Chinese instrument called the guqin, a seven-stringed zither, into the shape of the building.
Thin strips of aluminium cladding in varying shades of brown recall the carved wood of the musical instrum