A karst gallery has been inlaid at the edge of a 165-meter-high cliff in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou province.
An important part of the Anlong Limestone Resort, the gallery covers an area of 800 square meters and includes two exhibition floors, a meeting room and an outdoor sightseeing platform on the roof which is connected to a hiking trail.
According to He Wei, associate professor at the China Academy of Fine Arts and chief designer of the gallery, to make the gallery blend in with the environment, his team adapted local stone materials as wall decorations and overcame the difficulties of constructing on the fragile karst cliff.
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| Karst gallery is located at the top of a 165 meters high cliff. [Photo/xinhuanet.com] |
Anlong Limestone Resort covers an area of 10 square kilometers and is the first national mountain outdoor sports demonstration park to be awarded by the General Administration of Sports.
With a cost of 360 million yuan ($52.6 million), the first stage of the park was opened on Sept 24, 2016. Currently it has 16 mountain sports projects, including glide parachuting, rock climbing, mountain biking, and canoeing, and it is becoming the quintessential mountain park in Guizhou.
It is hoped that the gallery will help introduce Guizhou to the rest of the world, He said.
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| View of the karst gallery from the side of a climbing ropeway. [Photo/xinhuanet.com] |
