David Chipperfield embeds red natural history museum into sloping earth

David Chipperfield's Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in China is a cluster of monolithic exhibition halls arranged around a garden on a sloping site.
The British architect's Shanghai-based studio designed the museum as the centrepiece of a new cultural district in the county of Anji.Pavilions are rendered in red ochre to match the clay earth of the hillside. They are topped with green roofs to complement the surrounding nature when viewed from above.
At the northernmost point of the site, an