Museum
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Memorial Hall
259 Dong Feng Zhong Lu, Yue Xiu Qu, Guang Zhou Shi, Guang Dong Sheng, 510013
Column-free octagonal hall with a seventy-one-meter domed roof braced by steel trusses hidden in its walls.
This guide to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Memorial Hall in Guangzhou follows architect Lu Yanzhi, who designed the hall's column-free domed ceiling in 1926 and died of cancer before it was finished, leaving a junior architect to complete his drawings. It traces the ground itself back to Sun Yat-sen's presidential palace, shelled and burned by a rival general's troops in 1922, and the donations sent from as far as San Francisco and Singapore to rebuild on the same spot. Look up at the domed ceiling, seventy-one meters across, as you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.