source: the Beijing daily
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Bryon Don Whiri, a British retired old man, is a "match architect". Over the past 8 years, he has used a small match stick to build The Empire State Building in New York, Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, and Sydney Opera House of Italy, Australia and other famous buildings. It has consumed more than 1 million "building materials".
Hui Li is 73 years old and lives in Exeter. He was a carpenter before he retired. In his home, Hui Li made a studio, "homework" wearing glasses, first composition, and then a small knife to polish the match and smooth, then to start the "building".
because of the large demand for building materials, he buys 10 thousand matches every time. Every piece of work poured into the blood of Hui Li. Taking the "Liverpool mansion", which is nearly 1 meters high, he used 52 thousand matches for 18 months; the Exeter Church took about 10 months, used 35 thousand and 500 matches, and the newly completed Sydney Opera House used about 20 thousand matches.