The Chinese government has promised to protect a rural mountain village that contains some of the country’s oldest temples and residences. [...]
Despite designating Banpo as a protected heritage site in 2007, the Jincheng city government nonetheless allowed the Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group to displace the village later that year. [...] Nearly every building was destroyed and those that remained were left in ruins.
— theartnewspaper.com
“Corporations are people, my friend.”
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They will come to regret this wanton destruction in the coming years as we have when looking at the waste lands of many of our center cities. Then, when there's little left they'll say we can't emulate it because it's a relic from an inaccessible era, and to do so would be to indulge in the worst crimes of architecture, nostalgia and historicism. Shows that evolution is both a long tern process and one that must be learned at birth by each one of us. Cripes!
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