In 2017, the "Square Inch" photography competition hosted by the “Architectural Technology Journal” was successfully held and caused great repercussions in the industry; in February 2019, the "Square Inch" architecture photography competition was rekindled, which has been widely concerned by architects and photography enthusiasts since the opening of the competition, receiving more than 600 entries in total.

In this competition, 7 construction tycoons are invited to form a jury to select 45 shortlisted works from more than 600 works to enter the Wechat voting process. After three rounds of evaluation, 18 excellent works selected by the comprehensive evaluation opinions (accounting for 80%) and Wechat voting results (accounting for 20%) won the first, second and third prizes and excellent prizes, and the one with the highest Wechat vote won the "best Popularity Award".

The theme of this competition is around architecture. Many works express architects' thinking about the relationship between architecture and environment, architecture and people, architecture and life. Here are the winning works.

First Prize (One）

Three swordsmen of Mordor

Author: Wei Qijin (Central Academy of Fine Arts)

Second prize (Two)

Darn City

Author: Feng Xu (Yunnan Design Institute Group)

Mountain villa

Author: Xi Chen (Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd.)

Third prize (Five)

Stepping on the security of the Council

Author:  Shiyu Yang (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

The interweaving of chaos and order

Author: Fei Xie (Jinqiao college, Kunming University of Technology)

Color town

Author: Yuling Zhang  (California Institute of Art)

Line structure

Author: Xiaolong Dong (China Wuzhou Engineering Design Group Co., Ltd.)

Year flavor

Author: Yi You (Sinopec)

Special Thanks To The Judges

Chunhua Song , former Minister of housing and urban rural development

Guangyuan Zhang , director of Architectural Culture Communication Center of China Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., architectural photographer

Wenyi Zhu , Professor, School of architecture, Tsinghua University

Yifeng Chen , chief architect of China Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd

Bin Qi , deputy chief architect of architectural design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University

Yiqian Ye , chief architect of Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd

Dongdong Jia , general manager of Hongshi Art Ceremony Culture Co., Ltd., first prize winner of the first "Square Inch" Photography Competition

Special Thanks To The Sponsor

Advanced Solar Power (Hangzhou) Inc.

Advanced Solar Power (Hangzhou) Inc. is one of the two companies in the world and the only one in China enterprises producing CdTe thin film module products. The company was founded in 2008 with "independent innovation,China creates "as the development vision, adheres to the development path of" first strong, then big ", and focuses on cadmium telluride film technology R & D and production, covering high-end equipment manufacturing and production technology transmission based on localization export, raw material supply, investment and operation of photovoltaic power stations, etc., the "five in one" industrial chain.

Have broken the monopoly of foreign technology and taken the lead in realizing the industrialization of CdTe thin film solar energy technology in China. Have realized the independence and controllability of key core technologies, and firmly grasped the initiative of innovation and development in our own hands.

Product application project:

Photovoltaic roof of China Pavilion of 2019 World Horticultural Exposition, photovoltaic curtain wall of dance art base of China National Theatre, Xining China optoelectronic exhibition hall, Jiaxing Photovoltaic Science and Technology Museum, Swedish color photovoltaic garage, Dutch hospital curtain wall, etc.