China Fights Against Kitsch Architecture

A long time of solid financial development had filled a development blast and the ascent of odd and eye-getting engineering - from a teapot-molded working to the Rem Koolhaas-planned CCTV high rise that resembles a couple of trousers. The boycott came as a component of another State Council rule discharged by the focal government on Sunday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping initially made a conclusion as a response to the strange design and architectue in 2014, when he lectured a significant number of the nation's abnormally molded structures, including copycat design of acclaimed Western points of interest, from a reproduction of the U.S. State house to a whole clone of the UNESCO-ensured Austrian Hallstatt town. As the South China Morning Post (SCMP) said, the mandate expresses that urban design has to become suitable, sustainable, green and satisfying to the eye," and not "larger than usual, xenocentric and peculiar.

Architecture with its own specificity is an important component of Chinese civilization. Chinese architecture along with Oriental and Islamic are three main types of architecture in the world. Chinese architecture is unique in the world based on wood construction, which reflect Chinese design principles based om morality, beauty and nature inspired values. Based on a cultural tradition of millennia, Chinese architectural art has the following characteristics: focus on the conception of imperial power and hierarchy, the highest grade areas illustrated by designing palaces and cities; pays special attention to collective beauty, most groups of buildings are constructed around a main axis; respect nature, and closely follows the natural harmony of the building; looking for the beauty of harmony, simplicity and modesty.