House of a thousand points of view.

Home to four and a half million people, the City of Jinhua will soon be home to this eye-catching office structure with close to one thousand windows.

It seems an odd addition to a centre popular with tourists for its traditional palace (Duke Shi's Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom) and known for carving and woodcrafts - but quirkiness has long been a characteristic of the people of Zhejiang Province, and Jinhua is the birthplace of some of the brightest minds in Modern China.

For Japanese architect Sako Keiichiro, the nine-storey building is entirely appropriate - for not only is his creation a new attraction in the popular tourist city, but it presents a thousand new views of the community, both physical and philosophical

The tower is believed to have more windows than any building of similar size in the world. One journalist counted 113 windows in the fifteen rooms of the ninth floor, and said one room alone had 21 windows.

A GARDEN ON EVERY FLOOR.

Even more interesting is that none of the rooms in the building is completely square or rectangular. And according to a construction worker, this represents a continual challenge. "It's like a maze inside," he said, adding that it was one of the most challenging projects he had ever worked on. Inside, corridors wind around and between rooms, and on each floor there is a miniature garden.

Construction supervisor Mr Wei expects the building to be completed on schedule this summer. After which, a three-storey hotel of similar design will also be built.

He expects the total construction costs for the office building to be around £6 million."The windows alone cost nearly £500,000," he added.