1.   A Hong Kong architect, Tao Ho, and the Architecture Society of China hoped to buy the manor and transform it into a contemporary architecture museum.

2.   It is conceived as a campus, with separate structures for contemporary art galleries, an architecture museum, an auditorium and offices.

3.   The architecture museum also occupies the lovely octagonal room that was once the pony-riding ring of the Empress, now converted into an exquisite balconied library.

4.   The walls inside the architecture museum shimmer with an unearthly warmth.

5.   Instead, he turned the drawings over to the architecture museum where he worked, then quietly lobbied one Kremlin leader after another to give them back to Bremen.