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9 Jun '20

Architect, Bill Bensley: Evolution Runs Wild in New Eco-Hotels | ADF Web Magazine Japan

The human-centric view of the universe has been filled with folly after folly, like the once widely believed idea that the sun rotates around the earth. No matter how outdated such views seem the thinking behind them persists: Nature is still a means to humankind’s ends, a dangerous idea that has given rise to global warming and the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the planet.

The famous and Bangkok-based architect Bill Bensley wants to turn this kind of thinking inside out by creating a resort in Wuchuan, China where people will live in an opulent zoo looking out over a wildlife sanctuary where beasts roam free.