Should Old Building be Preserved 1
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Should Old Building be Preserved? 1
In recent years, many old buildings in cities are pulled down and replaced by new ones for the
needs of development. This has aroused people’s heat discussion about whether these old
buildings should be preserved or not. Some people think that we should preserve old buildings for
its spiritual value. While others are not agreed with that opinion. As far as I’m concerned, I
support the latter viewpoint and my reasons go as followings.
Preserving old buildings is an obstacle of development. Times flowing on and society keeping
changing and developing, the issue of urbanization was put. Urbanization and citizen means
changing, innovation and developing. It’s no dout that urbanization shall be configurated with
modern constructions. Just image a picture that there are all modern, bright skyscrapers surround
an old, dull and small tile-roof house. Is it beautiful? Obviously not. In such case, old building has
nothing helpful except for producing a bad image of the city, just like a patch to a worn clothe. It’s
unsuitable and unmatchable. A business street may not be achieved because of one or two left
antiquated buildings. Developing is the rhyme of society. Those can’t change to adapt to
development and those do not develop itself at all will vanish one day. It’s the principle of nature.
So it does with the old buildings. Some may argue that old buildings are the classical architecture
of the past. But the classical is a matter of time. Today’s modern architecture will also become
classical in the future. Old building contributed to the past however it does not help for today’s
prosperity. It is the modern building that does!
Old buildings are incomparable with modern ones. Generally, modern constructions are
floor-buildings that range from several floors to hundreds, which can contain a lots of families or
working places. That means modern buildings can hold more people in the same squares than old
ones. This is of significant importance for our country, a nation of large population within limited
space. Secondly, with parking lot, modern furniture and garden in residential area, modern
constructions are surely more convenient, more comfortable and healthier for people to live in.
However, after years of exposure to sun and rain, old buildings contain insecurity elements for
people to live in. You may worry that if they could sustain a strong storm and then continue
providing shelter. If you insist on preserving them, of cause you have to repair now and then. The
rehabilitation and maintenance is too-time-consuming and uneconomic. And, if you lack high
technique, you can’t make it the original one, thus losing its value. If so, it’s better to replace them
with modern buildings.
To sum up, compared with modern buildings, old buildings have shortages and disadvantages
no matter for developing or living condition. Therefore, there’s no need to preserve the old
buildings.
