PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Lan Su Chinese Garden is celebrating the 35-year sister city partnership between Portland and Suzhou — honoring Chinese culture in the Rose City. To commemorate the ...

Teams of Chinese artisans and craft workers lived in Portland for nine months throughout the initial project. The garden’s natural elements, including 500 tons of stone and taihu rock, were shipped ...

In the creation of the garden for the Suzhou Museum, the area most central to any Chinese building, I.M. Pei uses a variety of techniques to create a rock design that is both minimal and modern as ...

The middle-class scholar’s garden-house during the Ming ... to our time and place as the classical Chinese garden was 900 years ago in Suzhou, China? A common complaint about native gardens ...

German composer Christian Jost’s The Woman in the Gardens of Suzhou depicts the gardens of Suzhou which defined and perfected ...

Complete your afternoon in Chinatown by learning about the efforts of the Chinese ... the garden was brought to life over the course of 13 months by 53 master craftsmen from Suzhou, including ...

According to the Lan Su Chinese Garden, the name refers to "clouds that came from the East (Suzhou)" and "water from the (Willamette) River," connecting the garden to Portland's sister city ...

Lan Su Chinese Garden is a lush and vibrant oasis ... Lan Su is described as a Suzhou-style garden, based on Portland's sister city of Suzhou, China, which is famous for its UNESCO-designated ...

As Venus Sun planned this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival event at the Lan Su Chinese Garden, she thought of her home in Taiwan. The familiar aromas of barbeque and mooncakes came drifting back with ...