Ruins of an Alternate Future – Jinhua Architecture Park

One of the more interesting things about this article, for me, was the fact that it's one of the few places where the author's [I assume unintentionally incorrect] use of the phrase "affect change" actually kind of makes sense. It's very common to make this mistake (http://grammarist.com/usage/affect-effect/), but it's very rare for it to make sense.

As in, architects may be able to "change" change. And that's maybe more interesting than the idea that they can create change.

"Planned and curated by dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, each pavilion represents a new path forward for architecture, at least in the mind of the designer." — Surely that's affecting change (changing "change").

Not sure why, but the first thing that came to mind was Motel of the Mysteries. If there's ever a catastrophe where a significant amount of information is lost, one can only imagine what our distant descendants (or perhaps an alien species) will think when they uncover these structures - what inferences they'll draw about our lifestyles in the absence of the actual context in which these structures were built.