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The color of the buildings in Beijing will be regulated according
to sources from the Beijing Municipal Administration Bureau. Gray
has been recommended as the main color for the new buildings.
Who In Charge?
According to the construction habit of many metropolitans, Beijing
Municipal Administration Bureau will work out a series of regulations
for the color of the new buildings.
Of course, architects will be authoritative in this matter. Officials
concerned also have expressed that their advice should be heard.
Different Views
Our reporter interviewed an expert in the Beijing Academy of Architectural
Design. He was not quite agree with the suggestions that gray should
be the main color. Winter in Beijing is rather long. During the
three or four months, everywhere is cold and gray and bleak. If
the buildings are as gray as the winter sky, the city will become
a blur. In such case, what beauty will you see? And what elegance
will the city have? However, he stressed that this was only the
opinion of himself and of an ordinary dweller in Beijing.
We all know that winter in the temperate and frigid zones is quite
long. During the several months in winter, people's mood is sure
to be grayed by the bleak atmosphere. The gray color of buildings
just ignores this kind of need of the people. Avoiding the colorful
painting is to give up the research in the influences of building
color on people's feeling.
What Color Be Suggested?
If Beijing was the most beautiful human body, the buildings within
the second circle were its most important texture. With the green
trees and scarlet walls it bears on atmosphere of grandness. Yet
it is necessary to regulate the color of the buildings in the third
and fourth circles to make light color as their main color for fear
that the whole city would become a palette.
On the other hand, the long winter should also be taken into consideration.
Color should become a soundless language that can adjust people's
mood in a gray winter. Several experts also stressed that the harmony
between building colors and the surroundings are very important
and the color should be helpful in adjusting people's feeling.
(21DNN 11/09/2000)
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