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CHONGQING, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) greets workers during his visit to Guoyuan Port in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 4, 2016. Xi made an inspection tour in Chongqing from Jan. 4 to 6. (Xinhua/Li Tao)

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HAIKOU, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A civilian aircraft lands at the airfield on Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands, Jan. 6, 2016.

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HAIKOU, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- People pose for a group photo together after landing at the airfield on Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands, Jan. 6, 2016. China successfully carried out test fights of two civilian aircraft on Wednesday on a newly-built airfield in the Nansha Islands of the South China Sea. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

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LINYI, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers work at a collapsed mine in Pingyi County, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 6, 2016. Rescuers managed to dig more than 200 meters down into the shaft of the collapsed mine on Monday, but found no new survivors. A collapse at the gypsum mine in Pingyi County trapped 29 miners working underground on Dec. 25, 2015. Life detection equipment, dropped down via the No.6 hole, found no signs of missing people other than four they had previously contacted. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

 

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A lion sculpture made of Myanmar rosewood sits at a square in Wuhan City, the capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, Jan. 4, 2016. The sculpture, which is 4.35 meters high and weighs 39 tons, took three years to make in Myanmar. It is claimed to be the world’s largest rosewood lion sculpture and there are plans to apply for a Guinness record. (Photo Source: Ecns.cn)

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CHANGCHUN, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A child plays on an slide at the Nanhu Park in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, Jan. 6, 2016. People in northeast China take part in ice and snow sports despite low temperature outdoors. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)

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CHANGCHUN, Jan. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- People ride on a frozen lake at the Nanhu Park in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, Jan. 6, 2016.

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A staff member shows gold notes marking the Year of the Monkey at a bank in Taiyuan, North China’s Shanxi Province, Jan. 4, 2016. The notes featured Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, a main character in the Chinese classical novel "Journey to the West". According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2016 is the Year of the Monkey. (Photo Source: ecns.cn)

 

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Rayza graces fashion magazine

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Proposed "Super city" or three towers in one in Shenzhen.

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I thought Xi said something like China is done with those modern ugly buildings?



BTW TestBD, why was my post censored and then deleted???


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I thought Xi said something like China is done with those modern ugly buildings?



BTW TestBD, why was my post censored and then deleted???


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Define "ugly".

 

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Define "ugly".

My mistake, I meant "weird".
That's what he said!

Chinese President Xi Jinping: 'No More Weird Architecture'

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RMJMChina’s CCTV building was made fun of for looking like a pair of pants.

Chinese president Xi Jinping is fed up with his country’s fascination with what he calls “weird architecture,”

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Speaking at a literary symposium in Beijing last week, Xi’s two-hour speech took shot at Chinese architects and artists who have designed avant-garde style buildings.

Instead, he said that art should “be like sunshine from the blue sky and the breeze in spring that will inspire minds, warm hearts, cultivate taste, and clean up undesirable work styles.”

In other words, the speech was a call for more traditional Chinese art that is patriotic, socialist, and nationalistic at its core.

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REUTERS/Alex LeeThis gold coin building in Guangzhou is not your average skyscraper.

Xi believes that the art and architecture in China should appeal to the average Chinese citizen, who should also be the main subject of all artwork. His sentiment hearkens back to late Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s idea that the working class in China should not only be the major audience for all art, but that it should be a reflection of their everyday lives, according to Xinhua.

Xi’s speech comes at a time when China is being noticed and appreciated for its architecture. In 2012, Wang Shu, an Hangzhou architect, became the first man who was born and working in China to win the Pritzker Prize, the architect’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,

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REUTERS/Carlos BarriaThis art space in Wuxi looks like a clay teapot.

Of course, not all of China’s bizarre buildings are a hit. Rem Koolhaas’ CCTV headquarter building was

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for its bizarre shape, a building in the Jiangsu province was mocked for looking like a clay teapot in the Jiangsu province, and there was also a bizarre 33-story building in Guanzhou that

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Xi also touched on the fact that China is known for copying buildings from the rest of the world, saying that problems like plagiarism and unoriginality were not helping the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation.

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Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring ResortThe Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort is sometimes known as the ‘moon hotel.’

In the past, Chinese architects have

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The speech addressed the rampant corruption in Chinese architecture that Xi is trying to curb as well. The Chinese president said that artists should not be “slaves” to the market and the work itself should not have “the stench of money.”

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David Grey/REUTERSA canal runs through China’s forgery of Italy.

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Xi Jinping calls for end to "weird architecture": 10 quirky buildings in China

China president Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for an end to "weird architecture", a product of the construction boom in the country which has drawn architects from all over the world.

Some unconventional and costly buildings there have sparked controversy, drawing criticisms of unappealing aesthetics and wasted public funds, reported AFP.

While some China netizens support Xi's call for "no more weird architecture", others have also voiced concerns that this might further curtail artistic freedom.

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While I am in no way in shape or form an authority in architecture, I did studied architecture in university. And personally I have to say China has some of the world's ugliest iconic buildings in the world, its like these famous architects deliberately designed the ugliest buildings they can to put in China. These buildings are either tacky, strange, out of proportion, and worse yet; a lot of them look graphically "phallic".

Case in point:

Another one:

Even the Oriental Pearl look sort of "phallic":

They say China is like the playground for the architects, to me it feels more like a giant lab of failed experiments. And I have seen a lot of these buidings up close! There is simply no shortage of ugly tacky buildings everywhere you look.

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Or just google "ugly buildings of China"

 

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QIONGHAI, Jan. 7, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A residents shows China's RMB and US dollar banknotes in Qionghai, south China's Hainan Province, Jan. 7, 2016. The central parity rate of the Chinese yuan against the U.S. dollar weakened to 6.5646 per dollar on Jan. 7, the lowest since March 2011. (Xinhua/Meng Zhongde)

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Dense freezing fog shrouds Urumqi International Airport in Urumqi City, the capital of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 6, 2016. More than 7,000 passengers are stranded at the airport due to disruption to flights in and out. (Photo: China News Service/Li Rui)

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YULIN, Jan. 7, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A rescued miner is carried to an ambulance at Liujiamao Coal Mine at Shenmu County of Yulin City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 7, 2016. A pit of Liujiamao Coal Mine collapsed at around 9 a.m. Wednesday and 11 people were trapped underground following the cave-in. Two have been rescued but one of them was dead. (Xinhua/Zheng Xin

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..."economic" criminals.. also know as thieves.

BEIJING, Jan. 7, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Six fugitives involved in economic crimes are taken back under escort from Indonesia at Capital International Airport in Beijing, capital of China, June 21, 2015. By the end of November 2015, a total of 738 suspects, including 18 "Red Notice" fugitives, have been captured overseas since China's "Fox hunt 2015" campaign began in April 2015. Thirty-two of them were seized over 10 years after they fled. (Xinhua/Li Mingfang)

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BEIJING, Jan. 7, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Shilan, ex-wife of fugitive Chinese official Qiao Jianjun, refuses to be photographed as she appeared at a court for indiction on money laundering and immigration fraud charges in California, the United States, May 18, 2015. Qiao Jianjun, a former official with a branch of China's government grain storage, and his ex-wife were indicted in the United States on money laundering and immigration fraud charges. (Xinhua/Xue Ying)

 

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Jiang Weishi, aged 97, displays the tiger-head shoes and caps for her neighbor’s children in Weizhuang Village of Woyang County in Anhui Province, on Nov. 26, 2015. It is a skill handed down in her family from generation to generation. Jiang started to learn the skill at the age of 15 and her products have been well received by local people. [Photo by GaoYanan/China.com.cn]

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The vehicle maintenance garage at the Huilongguan Subway Vehicle Maintenance Center in Beijing. [Photo by Zheng Liang/China.org.cn ]

Established in August, 2002, the Huilongguan Subway Vehicle Maintenance Center provides services and maintenance of 56 subway trains running on Line 13 in Beijing. It also contains the Guodong Innovation Studio, a center that has assembled various experts in maintenance. Since 2007, the maintenance center staff began maintenance on vehicles which had completed a distance of 300,000 kilometers. All the vehicles have since entered the stage of maintenance necessary after completing 900,000 kilometers. Thanks to their tireless efforts and innovation, subway trains can maintain their operation smoothly.

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White tiger cubs are seen at the Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 24, 2015. A rare set of white tiger quintuplets was born on Oct. 26, 2015 in the park. All five cubs survived their fragile newborn period, considered by experts as a miracle in the history of white tiger breeding. [Photo/Xinhua]

 

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Song Qian graces GRAZIA

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