Completed in 2003, The Old City of Beijing is permanently installed in the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall.
Based on Beijing’s urban form in 1949, the monumental cast-bronze relief transforms a two-dimensional city plan into a three-dimensional sculptural field. Presented at a scale of 1:1,000, the work measures approximately nine by ten metres and weighs nearly ten tonnes.
The relief presents the city through layers of varying depth. The Forbidden City, the Beihai–Zhonghai–Nanhai lake system, streets, hutongs, courtyard houses, trees, waterways, and surrounding districts are translated into a dense surface of raised and recessed forms.
Rather than treating the map simply as geographic information, the work turns the city into a continuous physical structure. Buildings rise from the bronze surface, roads cut across it, and areas of water interrupt the dense urban fabric, allowing light and shadow to reveal the organisation of the old city.
The work preserves the spatial image of Beijing at a particular historical moment. It enables viewers to read the city not as a collection of isolated monuments, but as an interconnected system of streets, buildings, water, and everyday living space.
《北京旧城》创作于2003年，常设于北京市规划展览馆。
作品以1949年北京城市格局为基础，将二维城市平面图转化为大型立体铸铜浮雕。作品以1∶1000的比例制作，整体约宽10米、高9米，重量接近10吨。
浮雕通过不同深度的起伏层次，呈现紫禁城、北海—中海—南海水系、道路、胡同、四合院、树木、河湖以及外围城区。密集的建筑与街巷被转化为连续的凸起、凹陷与线性结构。
作品并非只是将地图放大，而是把整座城市转化为具有真实体量的雕塑表面。建筑从铜板上升起，道路贯穿其间，水域打断密集的城市肌理，光线则随着浮雕起伏不断改变，使老城结构在观看中逐渐显现。
作品保存了北京在特定历史时刻的空间图像，使观众看到的不只是故宫、城门等孤立地标，而是街道、建筑、水系与日常生活空间共同构成的完整城市结构。