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Commune by the Great Wall
Beijing, China · Unbound Collection · High Luxury
SOHO China's Zhang Xin commissioned eleven modernist villas, each designed by a different leading Asian architect including Kengo Kuma and Seung H-Sang, scattered across an eight-square-kilometre valley near the Great Wall's Badaling section. The collection won a Special Prize at the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale, and a model entered the Centre Pompidou's permanent collection as its first piece from China. A twenty-minute walk from reception reaches the Great Wall's Shuiguan section, closed to tour buses and loudspeaker groups.
- 30 rooms
- Opened 2018
- Neighborhood: Shuiguan
About Commune by the Great Wall
- Eleven villas were designed by eleven different Asian architects, including Kengo Kuma and Seung H-Sang; a model was acquired by the Centre Pompidou as its first permanent-collection piece from China.
- The Shuiguan section of the Great Wall, a twenty-minute walk from the hotel, is closed to public buses and tour groups, unlike the crowded Badaling section nearby.
- The property operates as an albergo diffuso, a dispersed hotel with buildings scattered across the valley rather than concentrated in one structure, a model borrowed from Italy and almost unused elsewhere in Chinese luxury travel.
The setting
In a valley near the Great Wall's Shuiguan section, twenty minutes from reception, closed to tour buses. Badaling is the crowded neighbour. This is Zhang Xin's SOHO China commune.
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Pet-friendly
- Tennis
- Kids' club
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