Qingyan

Qingyan combines the memory of a garrison settlement with the close scale of an inhabited, changing town. Building details and street uses offer different entries into its past.

A street view in Qingyan Ancient Town.
A street view in Qingyan Ancient Town.

Qingyan

A street view in Qingyan Ancient Town.

Stone makes the town legible

Qingyan’s gates, paved lanes and courtyards lead from military settlement to the close scale of town life in Guiyang’s Huaxi District.

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  1. A street view in Qingyan Ancient Town.xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.