Beijing’s architectural landscape has changed immensely in the past few decades. It has become a modern and vibrating city, welcoming dwellers from all over the world. The new shiny skyscrapers dominate the scene, making it difficult to imagine how it used to look like before. The city centre of Beijing was a maze of hutong (胡同). Hutongs are narrow ..read more

Written by Maria Giglio Attention boyfriends of the world, I’m about to tell you the secret to a woman’s heart: if you love her, bring her flowers. That’s right, that’s it. Every woman in the world has a thing with flowers… unless she’s allergic, of course. In any case, no doubt she will fall in ..read more

Written by: Stefania Miletti The traditional Chinese garden, known as Zhōngguó yuánlín (中國園林,中国园林), is characterized by the search for balance and harmony between human and nature, often with the recreation of a miniature landscape. These gardens try to recreate natural visual balances, for example by sculpting rocks as if they were eroded by atmospheric agents ..read more