3rd Prize of Architecture
The Vanishing Architectural Culture
Wang Yi (China)

When British army invaded Jiangzi, Tibet in 1904, the Tibetan army and local people bravely rose up to fight against and fatally beat the British invaders. Residences and forts in a large area were devastated under the gunfire from advanced British arms.
The Black Town in Ejinaqi, Inner Mongolia, was established in the year of 1286. it was said that the town is the ancient capital of Xi Xia Dynasty, where abundant and precious cultural relics of Xi Xia and Yuan Dynasty were buried. Owing to the extreme dryness of the local climate, the old town is facing the peril of being gulped by the desert.
Dinghai in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province is a famous historical town both at home and abroad. Though the cith once enjoyed great reputation in China's recent history for her traditional street blocks folly representing island characteristics in areas south of Yangtze River, pickaxes and sledgehammers in the renovation of old urban areas turned these invaluable building into debris in 1999.

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