Inner Mongolia Is Unlikely Laboratory for Emerging Architects

The Ordos 100 may sound like a doomed Da Vinci Code cabal, but it’s actually a new residential development in the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos. The “100” is the number of emerging architects from 27 countries that were each invited to design a villa on lots ranging from a quarter to a half acre for a client known as Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. And did we mention that the project’s master plan is by Mr.