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Occupation
  
Chinese architect

Name
  
He Jingtang

Role
  
Architect


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Born
  
1938 (
1938
)
Guangdong, China

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He Jingtang (Chinese: 何镜堂; born 1938 Guangdong, China) is a prominent Chinese architect and the head of the architecture program at the South China University of Technology's school of architecture whose works include the wrestling and badminton venues built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Chinese Pavilion sometimes referred to as the "Crown of China" for Expo 2010 which was held in Shanghai and later reopened as the China Art Museum. More recently designed the new campus of the University of Macau which was completed in 2013.

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In 2016 the Dachang Muslim Cultural Center designed by Jintang opened outside Beijing. It features a colonnade of petal-shaped arches that in turn give birth to an illuminated walkway around the outline of cultural centre

He Jingtang Arched walkway wraps Muslim centre near Beijing by He Jingtang

Jingtang participated in the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, in an exhibit named "PLACE, CULTURE, TIME He Jingtang: Design for Drastically Changing China”".

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