The Tianjin Museum along with the New Natural History Museum, Art Museum and Library are organized along a cultural corridor within the master plan which is inspired by the founding of Tianjin as the "Land of the Heavenly Ford." The buildings are sited as a sequence of water passages, garden and plazas that engage the public as they pass through the site. Each cultural building incorporates a unique plaza as both an educational device and public interaction space. The Tianjin Museum's City plaza presents the layers of Tianjin history as an occupiable plaza of green space, water and seating at the lake level, while being an educational device that interacts with the City View Window at the upper level of the museum. Similarly, the Art center would incorporate a large art plaza and the library a grand Knowledge plaza representing a contrast of the written words housed within the library and the temporary interaction of the public.......
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