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Chinese architect Chen Zhuyun had once claimed he wasn't sad at all, despite knowing that his neighborhood, the old town square, and some of his favorite trees had been destroyed to make way for the Three Gorges dam project. Chen shrugged, apparently unmoved by changes brought about by the largest dam project in the world. In Wushan, located along the banks of the Yangtze River, 400 miles from Beijing, with a population of 580,000, many resettled residents like Chen aren't looking back. Officials optimistically project that once the dam project is completed, an annual 20 million tourists will flock to the largest man-made lake in the world.

The article evaluates the architectural design of the Lakeside Retreat house in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, designed by the architecture firm Peter Gluck and Partners.