Qilu Network · Lightning News December 21, 2012 On December 16, Architecture Changyan Network selected the "12th China Top Ten Ugly Buildings in 2021", located in Hongyang Square in Huaiyin District, Jinan City (Jinan Provincial Capital Culture and Art Center Third Museum Phase II) on the list. After many netizens learned of this news, they said they could not accept it. How is a building judged to be the ugliest in China? In this regard, lightning news reporters launched an investigation.
"China's Top Ten Ugly Buildings", Jinan Architecture on the list?
It is understood that Changyan Network is a building information network under RCC Ruidaheng (Beijing Ruidaheng Construction Consulting Co., Ltd.). China's Top Ten Ugly Buildings was launched by the site in 2010. The lightning news reporter checked the page of the selection activity and found that the evaluation criteria of the activity ranged from several dimensions such as plagiarism, copycat, blind worship, antique, compromise, patchwork, blind bionic, and strange posture, with expert selection accounting for 60% and online voting accounting for 40%.
The lightning news reporter found in the special activity of "2021 China's Top Ten Ugly Buildings Selection" on the Construction Talk Network that the top three votes in the network selection were equal, namely the south gate of zhejiang university's Zijingang campus, the glass bridge tower of Jiuhuangshan in Mianyang, Sichuan, and the Violin Church in Yanbu, Foshan, Guangdong, and in the top ten of the online voting, the reporter did not find Hongyang Square. But in the final ranking, Hongyang Square in Huaiyin District, Jinan, Shandong Province, ranked third.
The reporter clicked on the building details of Hongyang Square to view, and its online voting number was 154, and the current ranking was 50. The reason for the building's listing was: "The building covers a variety of functions and large-scale building weight with a boring single skin, endangering the urban visual environment." Architectural Talk Network said that the selection is a list of shortlisted buildings by a number of expert judges, and its expert lineup includes visiting professors of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, associate professors of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and deputy chief architects of the China Architectural Design and Research Institute.
In order to find out the process of hongyang square selection in Jinan's Huaiyin District, as well as the evaluation of the building by the review experts, the lightning news reporter called the building Changyan Network to inquire, and the staff told the reporter that since the selection was responsible for the special department, they would reply separately to the questions raised by the reporter. However, as of press time, no reply has been received from the website. The reporter contacted the Jinan Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau, and the staff said that they were not aware.
"China's ugliest architecture", who can choose?
Changyan.com, which held this competition, belongs to Beijing Ruidaheng Construction Consulting Co., Ltd. The reporter found through the tianyan inspection that Beijing Ruidaheng Construction Consulting Co., Ltd. was established in 2007, and its main business is Internet information service business and building information consulting, market research, conference services and other businesses. Its legal representative, Wang Decun, is also the founder of the company, and the actual shareholders are two. As a private enterprise, is it appropriate to hold the selection of the national character? At the same time, many netizens have also questioned whether the cultural characteristics, architectural functions and social effects of buildings in various cities can be fully understood and objectively evaluated.
In the comment area of Changyan Network, the reporter also found that netizens also have very different views on the beauty and ugliness of architecture. Some netizens said that some of the voters who participated in the selection did not really go to the building site and did not really experience and understand these buildings. Some netizens said that the beauty and ugliness of the building should be judged in the urban environment, and hoped that the organizers would publish multi-angle photos of each building and match them with technical drawings to make the results more rational and evidence-based.
Despite having been held for 12 sessions, the authority and legitimacy of the "Top Ten Ugly Buildings in China" selection are still being questioned. When the list of "2020 China's Top Ten Ugly Buildings" was released, the new library in Jiangxi Province, which had been listed, caused a heated discussion, and many netizens shouted injustice: "Jiangxi Library did not see anything special, why is it on the list?" And the staff of the Jiangxi Provincial Library also said that "everyone's aesthetics are different", it seems that the evaluation of beauty and ugliness is by no means a list that can be hastily evaluated. Shen Zuowei, a master of national engineering survey and design, told the Lightning News reporter that the "Top Ten Ugly Buildings in China" held by the Architectural Talk Network does not represent absolute authority, and many people have also put forward different views.
Expert: Hongyang Square building has a dynamic feeling, the overall image is good
Hongyang Plaza (Jinan Provincial Capital Culture and Arts Center Hall III) design units are the French AS Architecture Studio and Shandong Tongyuan Design Group Co., Ltd., the French AS Architecture Studio in its public account once published an article to introduce that the architectural concept of the Shandong Provincial Capital Culture and Arts Center Three Pavilion Project originated from the spring water in Jinan, the spring water symbolizes the source of urban culture. The shape of the building is undulating and full of tension, showing the surging of spring water and the agility of culture. The effect of the building façade is taken from the picture of the spring water of the spring city of Jinan, which covers the microwave floating, and processes the image to pixelate it. A diamond arrangement taken from the shape of a water droplet is combined to form a water surface, and this pattern is then given to the surface of the building.
Shen Zuowei, a national engineering survey and design master, was surprised that Hongyang Square was listed in the "12th China Top Ten Ugly Buildings in 2021", and in his opinion, this building should not appear on this list.
Shen Zuowei told the lightning news reporter that the design façade of this building uses metal aluminum alloy plates as materials, uses the image of surging spring water to express the regional characteristics of Jinan, and uses an irregular diamond shape to hang a picture of spring water covering the building façade, and the building has a sense of movement; through the change of height and height, it reflects the image of the landscape garden city; the three groups of buildings are connected together with a unified skin method to form a whole, for the whole city, a grand building complex is formed, and the overall image is still good. At the same time, he also admitted: "The more individual the building, the easier it is for everyone to cause hype, so don't make a fuss about this." ”
For the Hongyang Square called by the Architectural Freedom Network, "the building covers a variety of functions and super-large-scale building weight with a boring single skin as a whole", Shen Zuowei believes that this kind of creative technique that unifies the entire building with the skin is more popular in foreign countries, and it is still novel in China, and the comments on its artistic value are also different, "Artistic things, some say good, some say bad, it is difficult to have a stereotype to rule, but I think his design ideas should be said to be more advanced techniques." ”
Hou Zhaohui, chief construction engineer of the Shandong Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, also said that it is difficult to have an absolute evaluation from the appearance of the building, "some people like it and some people don't like it, I think it may be normal." Hou Zhaohui frankly said that from the perspective of design, the modeling language of the building's skin is also more commonly used in recent years, and many large public buildings will also use this technique, including the problem of aesthetic habits.
Shen Zuowei also said that architectural creation should solve functional problems, image problems, and also consider the contribution to the entire city. He believes that the image of Hongyang Square is modern, and at the same time has the personality of the city and the atmosphere of the times, which can enrich the cultural facilities in the west of Jinan city and enhance the image of the western area of Jinan to a certain extent.
Lightning News reporter Li Yuan reported