issue26 smileA作业八，古代现代建筑问题，请指教！

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Issue26
26"Most people would agree that buildings represent a valuable record of any society's past, but controversy arises when old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes. In such situations, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served."
Outline:
1 古老文明开头
2 历史建筑是文化的传承，精神的寄托：eg 埃及金字塔，中国紫禁城
3 现代建筑的实用性 抽象例子
4 完美结合的典范：罗马，斯德哥尔摩
5 不能够去摧毁，那是放弃自己的文化Thousands of years ago, along the Euphrates River, the splendid culture of Babylon reached its climax and was destructed, left only the broken walls of hanging garden, through which could we have a glimpse of its once spectacular heritage. The fallen of the buildings that are engraved with one nation’s culture represents the lost of that very nation. While the modern are pushing away the historic buildings like a bulldozer, it is the time we yelled out NO.

Buildings are the best representatives of one nation’s culture and a repository of all its fabulous heritages. Rather than mere places of interest which are provided to all the foreign visitors in order to increase the revenue of tourism and make contribution to one country’s economy, for the people of that very nation, historic constructions are of more importance in terms of the spiritual power. Whenever Chinese people feel oppressed by the modern intense life, we would turn to the grey walls in the old alley and the red walls around the forbidden city, recalling the orderly assiduous and hard life our ancestors lead and admiring all the wonders they have created. Finding that root, we would again obtain the power inside and rejuvenatedly come back to our real lives. Those old buildings are always served as reminders of our own tradition standing there waiting for people to touch and feel. They are also the clues our forefathers left for us to explore their lives. The anthropologists always get useful and crucial information from the old buildings people constructed at that time, and we are still wondering today how advanced the Egyptians’ mathematics should be as to make the masterpiece as pyramids, and what kind of machine Chinese people adopted to building that Great Wall. The explanation to all these questions could lead us to a better understanding of the nature and could mean a breakthrough in any field of study.

Now we are constructing the building representing the contemporary culture, namely, modern culture. And we see the incomparable convenience as well as safety the modern buildings bring about. We are quite familiar with the windows in the skyscrapers which look like pigeon holes and we could even call them the symbols of fast culture we now enjoy, if they are culture at all. In the face of population explosion and a speeding development of our industries in all fields, we do need more land and space to make the “progress”. However, when we are pulling off the old city walls and eliminate the historic palaces form the land only to save the thousands of square kilometers; are we really satisfying people’s urgent need? The newly built-up important modern office might further burden the traffic downtown, the parking lot which is just finished might still could not meet the needs due to the excessive cars we have on the road. It is not a land we need in the process of modernization, but a room in our minds which could allow us to slow down for a moment and restore the order of our lives to avoid the overwhelming changes happen in the world and becoming a new “lost generation”.

However, if we really think it over, we could find our own way to balance the two seemingly incompatible things. In Stockholm, people divide their historic city into two parts—the old one, in which people are selling hand-made gadgets in the open markets and preserve the old way of life in the narrow alleys, and the modern one, in which stand all the high buildings as you can see in any other part of the world. In Rome, the great Colosseum, once filled with the naval battles and the gladiatorial combats, are now again teemed with people waiting for a concert to open its curtain. These could furnish the perfect examples, showing people’s intelligence and tolerance that help combine the old and the new.

The elimination of the historic buildings could symbolize a betrayal of one’s country and signify the lost of one’s culture. The skyscraper could stand high and long only when the foundation is deep and profound; we could develop in a sustainable way merely when we realize and reserve our historic heritages.
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Thousands of years ago, along the Euphrates River, the splendid culture of Babylon reached its climax and was destructed, left only the broken walls of hanging garden, through which could we have a glimpse of its once spectacular heritage. The fallen of the buildings that are engraved with one nation’s culture represents the lost of that very nation. While the modern are pushing away the historic buildings like a bulldozer, it is the time we yelled out NO.很有煽动性，不知道一坨屎喜欢不喜欢

Buildings are the best representatives of one nation’s culture and a repository of all its fabulous heritages. Rather than mere places of interest which are provided to all the foreign visitors in order to increase the revenue of tourism and make contribution to one country’s economy, for the people of that very nation, historic constructions are of more importance in terms of the spiritual power. Whenever Chinese people feel oppressed by the modern intense life, we would turn to the grey walls in the old alley and the red walls around the forbidden city, recalling the orderly assiduous and hard life our ancestors lead and admiring all the wonders they have created. Finding that root, we would again obtain the power inside and rejuvenatedly come back to our real lives. Those old buildings are always served as reminders of our own tradition standing there waiting for people to touch and feel. They are also the clues our forefathers left for us to explore their lives. The anthropologists always get useful and crucial information from the old buildings people constructed at that time, and we are still wondering today how advanced the Egyptians’ mathematics should be as to make the masterpiece as pyramids, and what kind of machine Chinese people adopted to building that Great Wall. The explanation to all these questions could lead us to a better understanding of the nature and could mean a breakthrough in any field of study.

Now we are constructing the building representing the contemporary culture, namely, modern culture. And we see the incomparable convenience as well as safety the modern buildings bring about. We are quite familiar with the windows in the skyscrapers which look like pigeon holes and we could even call them the symbols of fast culture we now enjoy, if they are culture at all. In the face of population explosion and a speeding development of our industries in all fields, we do need more land and space to make the “progress”. However, when we are pulling off the old city walls and eliminate the historic palaces form the land only to save the thousands of square kilometers; are we really satisfying people’s urgent need? The newly built-up important modern office might further burden the traffic downtown, the parking lot which is just finished might still could not meet the needs due to the excessive cars we have on the road. It is not a land we need in the process of modernization, but a room in our minds which could allow us to slow down for a moment and restore the order of our lives to avoid the overwhelming changes happen in the world and becoming a new “lost generation”.

However, if we really think it over, we could find our own way to balance the two seemingly incompatible things. In Stockholm, people divide their historic city into two parts—the old one, in which people are selling hand-made gadgets in the open markets and preserve the old way of life in the narrow alleys, and the modern one, in which stand all the high buildings as you can see in any other part of the world. In Rome, the great Colosseum, once filled with the naval battles and the gladiatorial combats, are now again teemed with people waiting for a concert to open its curtain. These could furnish the perfect examples, showing people’s intelligence and tolerance that help combine the old and the new.

The elimination of the historic buildings could symbolize a betrayal of one’s country and signify the lost of one’s culture. The skyscraper could stand high and long only when the foundation is deep and profound; we could develop in a sustainable way merely when we realize and reserve our historic heritages.

这可是我的考题阿，要是你能灵魂附体我，我现在就不这么郁闷了

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学习啊，楼主多多写，我们多多学~~
我对这个题目还想到一个例子：就是巴黎城的规划，巴黎的城市形状是像蜗牛一样螺旋展开的，越古老的东西，越在中间，新的建筑和建设不会去损毁古建筑。而且可以共同发展的。。。
但本人不知道怎么用英文表达，城市像蜗牛一样螺旋展开这句话。楼主帮帮忙！！