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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, June 2005, New York

Beijing Planetarium.

"A planetarium's curves hint at the mysteries of the cosmos: Beijing's adventurous new planetarium stands out in a country still adjusting to the idea of Western architectural Modernism. With its compound- curved glass walls and variety of high-tech display spaces, the building projects the progressive, modern image that Beijing hopes to buff when it takes center stage during the 2008 Olympics. .....Appropriately, Wang bridges the worlds of East and West. He's a Taiwanese native who earned his first architectural degree in that country and his second one at Yale; his small firm, Amphibian Arc, is based in Los Angeles. So far, he𠏋 shown an uncanny affinity for public projects related to science, with the Shangyang Science Museum and the Beijing Planetarium under his belt, and soon, a monument to Copernicus to be built in Poland.

ARCHITEKTURA & BIZNES, March 2005, Cracow

Beijing Planetarium .

USA CHINA PRESS, March 2005, Los Angles

Beijing Planetarium.

ART Magazine, March 2005, Beijing

Beijing Planetarium.

"2004年12月12日﹐北京天文館新館落成開館﹐那層引發聯想的面紗終於揭開﹐而眼前的嶄新景致讓人驚喜：自正前方看去﹐典雅肅穆的石頭建築背面映襯一面巨大且通透的玻璃維幕﹐平滑如鏡﹐其卷曲處則仿若有微風襲來﹐有指掌拂過﹐曲線自然流動。或許緣於曾經的對於建築意義的追索﹐曾就讀耶魯大學建築哲學專業的他有與一般建築師有不同的思路。在建築形式之外﹐他在意建築自身的內蘊和理念闡釋。這決定了他的建築作品呈現出的概念化氣質。"

BEIJING YOUTH DAILY, January 2005, Beijing

Beijing Planetarium.

"天空下的北京天文館新館就像一個浩瀚宇宙的縮影﹐在京城的街頭一隅閃亮神秘而深邃的氣質。如果說建築是會說話的﹐那麼這通體透明的可以在某部份柔軟地彎曲為迎風搖曳的行態內部包含巨大管道的玻璃盒子試圖在講述什麼﹖它的設計建築師美籍華人王弄極道出這個建築暗含的靈性─它是一個展現想對論弦體理論等現代天體物理學抽象理論的藝術舞台。"