Inheriting tulou's round multistory design, the new urban "tulou" has facilities such as a basketball court, shops and community library to better cater to people's modern lives.

Image Courtesy of Rural Urban Framework (RUF) This tulou has been renovated by the local government into a children’s school, and individual transformations have already taken place, such as the ...

In China, where urban populations are rising rapidly, one design firm has turned to a model that is more than 900 years old as a basis for low-income community residences.

This article is part of a series looking back at some of the most noteworthy China stories of 2017.. More than 3,000 tulou — the round, earthen structures built centuries ago in eastern China — are ...

The Tulou affordable housing project by Urbanus was the subject of the 5th Solos Exhibition at New York’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. This 245 apartment structure is currently being ...

These 46 structures are known as the Fujian Tulou. Throughout history, their residents have mostly been Hakka—migrants in southern China who originated from lands adjacent to the Yellow River.

There are around 3,000 tulou, literally meaning earthen house, spread around the southwestern part of Fujian and the adjoining areas of Guangdong and Jiangxi.While round ones are the most common ...

Fujian tulou consists of 46 buildings constructed between the 15th and 20th centuries over 120 kilometers in the south-west of Fujian province, inland from the Taiwan Strait. Set amongst rice, tea ...