THE FORBIDDEN CITY IN BEIJING: CHINA'S HIDDEN HEART. From: The Architectural Review | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: ANTONIOU, JIM | COPYRIGHT 2001 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

At the beginning of the fifteenth century AD, the third Ming Emperor, Yung-lo created one of the most dazzling architectural masterpieces in the world. The Forbidden City, encrusted in the centre of China's capital Beijing, displays an extraordinarily harmonious balance between buildings and open space within a symmetrical layout. It contains immense courtyards, terraces and stairways, and buildings decorated with golden roofs, vermilion columns and green, red and yellow facings. T...

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