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Greenhouses to visit in China

The Verrière atlas lists 34 greenhouses in China, built between 1915 and 2026.

Most of China's major greenhouses date from 1999 or later, among them those of the national botanical gardens of Beijing and Guangzhou and of the horticultural expo parks of Kunming (1999) and Beijing (2019); Shanghai's Chenshan glasshouses were hailed as Asia's largest display greenhouse. In 2024 came the greenhouse garden of Shanghai's Expo Culture Park, which keeps steel trusses from a former steelworks. Older glasshouses survive too: the Tanghuawu in Beijing's Zhongshan Park, built in 1915 and rebuilt in 1936, and the south garden glasshouse of the National Botanical Garden, home to the Bodhi tree given by Nehru in 1954.

34Greenhouses
1915Oldest — Tanghuawu Greenhouse, Zhongshan Park (唐花坞)
2026Newest — Exhibition Greenhouse, Ningbo Botanical Garden (宁波植物园展览温室)
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All 34 greenhouses, oldest to newest

Tanghuawu Greenhouse, Zhongshan Park (唐花坞), Beijing
1915 · 1936

Tanghuawu Greenhouse, Zhongshan Park (唐花坞)

🇨🇳 Beijing
Built in 1915 to bring flowers into bloom in midwinter and rebuilt in 1936, it is described as Beijing's earliest modern greenhouse.
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1950 · 1965

South Garden Exhibition Greenhouse, China National Botanical Garden (国家植物园南园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Haidian, Beijing
It shelters the Bodhi tree Nehru gave China in 1954, the country's only one propagated from the tree of the Buddha's meditation.
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1986

Fuligong Greenhouses, Kunming Botanical Garden (昆明植物园扶荔宫)

🇨🇳 Kunming (Yunnan)
The main glasshouse spirals up from 7.5 m at its north end to 29.9 m at its south end and holds over 1,800 species.
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1995

Cactus and Succulent Glasshouses, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (仙湖植物园仙人掌与多肉园)

🇨🇳 Shenzhen (Luohu District)
Three greenhouses devoted to the Americas, Asia and Africa, one of them a transparent cactus dome, linked by covered walkways.
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1995

Glass Greenhouse, Yuntai Garden (云台花园玻璃温室)

🇨🇳 Guangzhou (Baiyun District), Guangdong
Seen from above, this 1,200 m² glasshouse on a hilltop traces the outline of an orchid flower.
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Grand Greenhouse, World Horti-Expo Garden (大温室), Kunming, Yunnan
1999

Grand Greenhouse, World Horti-Expo Garden (大温室)

🇨🇳 Kunming, Yunnan
Built for the 1999 Horticultural Expo, it gathered more than 1,200 species under glass, from rainforest to cold-zone plants.
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Greenhouse of the China National Botanical Garden, Haidian, Beijing
2000

Greenhouse of the China National Botanical Garden

🇨🇳 Haidian, Beijing
In 1999, the largest greenhouse in Asia at the time opened at the foot of the Fragrant Hills, under a roof conceived as the leaves' memory of their roots.
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2001

Exhibition Greenhouse, Shanghai Botanical Garden (上海植物园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Shanghai (Xuhui)
A 32-metre glass pyramid where man-made mountains, canyons and waterfalls frame more than 3,500 tropical species.
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2006

Landscape Greenhouse, Wuhan Botanical Garden (武汉植物园景观温室)

🇨🇳 Wuhan (Hubei)
Built in 2006 with materials imported from France, it is billed as the largest landscape glasshouse in central China.
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2007

Tropical Plant Palace, Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden (南京中山植物园热带植物宫)

🇨🇳 Nanjing (Jiangsu)
Three glass leaves that seem to rise from Qianhu Lake at the foot of Zijin Mountain shelter more than 2,000 plant species.
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Greenhouses of the South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou
2008

Greenhouses of the South China National Botanical Garden

🇨🇳 Guangzhou
Five of the world's climates recreated in one of Asia's largest landscaped greenhouse complexes.
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Exhibition Greenhouse, Nanshan Botanical Garden (南山植物园展览温室), Chongqing (Nan'an)
2009

Exhibition Greenhouse, Nanshan Botanical Garden (南山植物园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Chongqing (Nan'an)
More than 32,800 steel members and 18,000 nodes make up the all-glass frame of this greenhouse, opened in 2009.
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2009

Exhibition Greenhouse, Zhengzhou Botanical Garden (郑州植物园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Zhengzhou (Zhongyuan District), Henan
Rising to 30.4 m, its outline is derived from the bronze chime bells associated with the culture of the Central Plains.
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2011

Exhibition Greenhouses, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

🇨🇳 Songjiang, Shanghai
Hailed on completion as Asia's largest exhibition greenhouse: 12,608 m² spread across three separate halls.
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2011

Greenhouse of the Xi'an International Horticultural Expo, Xi'an Expo Park (西安世博园自然馆)

🇨🇳 Xi'an (Chanba Ecological District, Baqiao), Shaanxi
A crystalline glasshouse buried in a man-made hill, its roof walked over by visitors, a legacy of the 2011 horticultural expo.
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2012

Ornamental Greenhouse of Xuzhou Botanical Garden (徐州植物园观赏温室)

🇨🇳 Xuzhou (Gulou District), Jiangsu
A 72 × 48 m glass hall, 18 m high, on the south-entrance axis of the botanical garden, with over 850 tropical species.
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2014

Plant Pavilion, Qingdao Expo Garden (植物馆, 青岛世博园)

🇨🇳 Qingdao (Licang District), Shandong
Built for the 2014 horticultural expo, this leaf-shaped pavilion is billed as China's first energy-saving glasshouse.
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2016

Plant Style Hall (植物风情馆), former Tropical Plant Pavilion of Expo 2016, Tangshan

🇨🇳 Tangshan (Lunan), Hebei
A faceted volume inspired by an ore crystal shelters 1,033 tropical species in a park born from a mining subsidence zone.
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2018

Agriculture Dream Factory glass greenhouses, Guilinyang National Tropical Agriculture Park (桂林洋国家热带农业公园 农业梦工厂)

🇨🇳 Haikou (Meilan District), Hainan
About 106,000 m² of intelligent glass greenhouses, billed by local press as the largest in the country built in one go.
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2019

Greenhouse of Huizhou Botanical Garden (惠州植物园温室)

🇨🇳 Huizhou (Huicheng District), Guangdong
A hemispherical glass greenhouse 39 m high with a 70 m span, holding a tropical rainforest, desert plants and a science pavilion.
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2019

Greenhouse of Nantong Botanical Garden (南通植物园温室)

🇨🇳 Nantong (Chongchuan District), Jiangsu
A boat-shaped steel-and-glass greenhouse under a twisted saddle roof rising from 3 to 20 m, combining rainforest, desert and flower zones.
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2019

Plant Pavilion, Beijing Expo Park (北京世园公园植物馆)

🇨🇳 Yanqing, Beijing
Designed by URBANUS for the 2019 Horticultural Expo, it hides an ETFE-roofed tropical glasshouse behind a hall hung with 'roots'.
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2020

Domed Greenhouses, Taiyuan Botanical Garden (太原植物园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Taiyuan, Shanxi
At 88 metres across, the largest dome is billed as the world's longest clear-span non-triangulated timber gridshell.
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2021

Greenhouse Exhibition Hall, Hengshui Botanical Garden (衡水植物园温室展览馆)

🇨🇳 Hengshui, Hebei
A glass hall built from inverted pyramidal steel units 18 m high, housing more than 200 tropical and desert species.
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2023

Subtropical Greenhouse, Science Museum of Jinan Botanical Garden (济南植物园科普馆亚热带温室)

🇨🇳 Jinan (Zhangqiu District), Shandong
Designed as a 'floating garden' in a misty forest, the greenhouse holds more than 600 tropical and subtropical species.
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2024

Cold Greenhouses, Shanghai Botanical Garden North Zone (Subalpine and Mountain Plant Pavilions)

🇨🇳 Shanghai (Xuhui, North Zone of the Botanical Garden)
Shanghai's first cold greenhouses: twin glass pavilions on the lake shore for mountain rhododendrons, camellias and gesneriads.
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2024

Orchid Greenhouse, Sanjiangkou Botanical Garden (福州三江口植物园兰花温室)

🇨🇳 Fuzhou (Cangshan District), Fujian
A 2,200 m² glass-and-steel greenhouse shaped like orchid petals, stepped over three terraces of the hill: China's largest devoted to orchids.
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Shanghai Greenhouse Garden, Expo Culture Park (世博文化公园温室花园), Shanghai (Pudong)
2024

Shanghai Greenhouse Garden, Expo Culture Park (世博文化公园温室花园)

🇨🇳 Shanghai (Pudong)
Billed as Asia's largest glass greenhouse garden, it keeps 1918 steel roof trusses from the former Shanghai No. 3 Steel Works.
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2024

Tianjiyuan Research and Exhibition Greenhouse, Hunan Botanical Garden (湖南省植物园天际苑)

🇨🇳 Changsha (Yuhua), Hunan
Four climate-controlled halls, from tropical rainforest to Hunan's subalpine mountains, hold more than 2,500 species and cultivars.
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2025

'Chunyan' Glass Rainforest Greenhouse, Guanshanhu Ecological Civilization Exhibition Hall

🇨🇳 Guiyang, Guizhou
A glass greenhouse the size of a small room, kept at 25 °C, holding 60 plant categories including 12 protected wild species.
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2025

Nanchang Ganpo Rare Plant Garden greenhouses (南昌赣鄱珍奇植物园)

🇨🇳 Nanchang (Xinjian District), Jiangxi
Three greenhouses sharing 22,960 m², including a 10,986 m² rainforest hall billed as one of the largest exhibition greenhouses in Asia.
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2026

Exhibition Greenhouse, Ningbo Botanical Garden (宁波植物园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Ningbo (Zhenhai District), Zhejiang
Opened in April 2026 and billed as the only large multi-purpose plant exhibition greenhouse in Zhejiang province.
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Orchid Garden Exhibition Greenhouse, Dongguan Botanical Garden (东莞植物园兰花园展览温室)

🇨🇳 Nancheng, Dongguan, Guangdong
A small glass-roofed exhibition house showing more than a hundred orchid species, in Dongguan Botanical Garden.
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Tropical Plant Hall, Shijiazhuang Botanical Garden (石家庄植物园热带植物馆)

🇨🇳 Shijiazhuang, Hebei
A large tropical glasshouse of over 6,000 m², with five zones and more than 500 species, reopened in September 2026 with 14,000 new plants on its living walls.
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Architecture in China

Fragrant Hill Hotel (香山饭店), Beijing (Xiangshan Park)
1982

Fragrant Hill Hotel (香山饭店)

🇨🇳 Beijing (Xiangshan Park)
A hotel stretched out horizontally, with white walls and grey roofs, arranged around eleven courtyards and a glazed atrium, in Xiangshan Park.
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Bank of China Head Office, Beijing (中国银行总行大厦), Beijing (Xidan, Xicheng District)
2001

Bank of China Head Office, Beijing (中国银行总行大厦)

🇨🇳 Beijing (Xidan, Xicheng District)
A headquarters in Italian travertine whose eleven-storey atrium holds a Chinese garden of rocks and water beneath a skylight.
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Suzhou Museum, new building, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province
2006

Suzhou Museum, new building

🇨🇳 Suzhou, Jiangsu Province
Dark grey granite roofs pierced with glass, white walls and a garden of stone and water that touches the Humble Administrator's Garden.
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2013

Aurora Museum (震旦博物馆)

🇨🇳 Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
A spiral staircase in a circular space five storeys high: Tadao Ando turned part of an office building in Lujiazui into a museum.
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2013

CEIBS Shanghai Campus Expansion (China Europe International Business School)

🇨🇳 Pudong, Shanghai
A glass pyramid ringed by pools, at the heart of an expansion that doubled the size of the campus.
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Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre, Jiading, Shanghai
2014

Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre

🇨🇳 Jiading, Shanghai
A concrete block pierced by large cylindrical tunnels open to the air, between two waterways.
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2016

Liangzhu Culture and Art Center

🇨🇳 Liangzhu, Hangzhou
Three concrete boxes sheltered under one huge roof, among the cherry trees of Liangzhu Village.
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He Art Museum, Shunde, Foshan
2020

He Art Museum

🇨🇳 Shunde, Foshan
Four stacked circles that widen towards the top, around an atrium where a double-helix staircase in exposed concrete winds, in Shunde's new business district.
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