GO WITH THE FLOW
Aug 26, 2021
4 minutes
By Tao Zihui
Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon
All 18 classrooms of a former village school have been converted into 22 hotel-style guest bedrooms. The secondary wing of the complex is now home to a cafe, several dining rooms and a rooftop canteen, while its previous playground gave way to a swimming pool.
Located in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, the newly finished hotel has become a tourist attraction and its host village of Qinyong is now a prime example of how architecture could provide a concrete answer to rural vitalization.
“The school replaced the traditional ancestral hall and became the center of public life in Qinyong, as well as an.
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