Recently, a list of "China's top ten ugly buildings" has become popular on the Internet. The buildings on the list include Evergrande Haihua Island complex, Suzhou Bay cultural center, Hongyang square in Jinan, Shandong Province. The reasons for its listing include "destruction of marine ecology", "strange and disorderly shape", "exaggerated and wasteful modeling" and "unreasonable building use function", It once again triggered a heated discussion on architectural design and aesthetics. In terms of the list of "top ten ugly buildings", netizens may not have very unified opinions on whether the listed buildings are really "ugly out of the sky". Because this is related to the selection principles, standards, procedures and methods set by the selection organizers, as well as the personal tendency of the invited judges. More importantly, "Ugliness" is an aesthetic concept in a general sense, and people's aesthetics is often very subjective. For many netizens, most of them pay attention to the selection of ugly buildings. Nevertheless, the selection of ugly buildings still has important guiding significance. Although beauty and ugliness have great subjectivity, the standard of mainstream beauty in a society is relatively stable in a certain period of time. Integrating the power of the media, the public and experts to constantly confirm that "ugliness is ugliness" is also a positive effort to establish a correct aesthetic outlook. Architecture is the carrier of culture, and urban architecture is the concentrated embodiment of urban culture. In the process of China's rapid urbanization, many buildings have not well inherited this cultural mission, and some architectural designs are grotesque, foreign and sensational, which are incompatible with the surrounding environment; Some architectural designs simply copy the tradition and blindly copy, resulting in many cultural and tourism projects "one side of a thousand cities"; There are also some buildings with strange and vulgar posture, which make people call them "hot eyes". From these endless "strange" buildings, the deep-seated problems in the field of architectural planning and design are exposed. First of all, China has developed rapidly in recent years, and urban and rural construction is changing with each passing day, but the aesthetic level and planning and design ability of the whole society lag behind the pace of urban construction. The uneven development of "soft power" and "hard power" in urban and rural construction makes some buildings pay too much attention to one thing and lose the other between meeting basic functions and pursuing artistic effects, Leave risks and worries for urban cultural construction. Secondly, behind some ugly buildings is the abnormal view of political achievements. In many failed cases in recent years, we can often see the shadow of administrative power intervention design. Under the guidance of the abnormal view of political achievements, some local leading cadres overstepped their responsibilities, unilaterally pursued high, large, foreign, new and strange, planned some cultural and tourism projects divorced from reality regardless of costs and benefits, and turned the buildings that should have become "urban landmarks" into "power landmarks". They often guide professionals, regard themselves as the "Chief Planner" of the city, and let professionals who really understand planning become the "drawing tool" to implement their will. Most of the selection in today's society generally points to positive and positive. This selection of ugly buildings is a reverse operation. Through the focus of public opinion and the onlookers of netizens, it forms a kind of pressure, forcing the leaders of architectural planning and design to treat the "solidified art" of architecture more carefully from the beginning, so that they can repeatedly ponder and demonstrate the design concept and scheme, This is also a restriction on the wanton intervention design of administrative power. Lewis, American urban architect? Mumford once said, "the city is the container of culture". Contemporary Chinese architecture should rely on China's unique history and culture, inherit the blood of Chinese culture, show contemporary Chinese characteristics and reflect the aesthetic value of contemporary Chinese people. There is no doubt that this is a very professional work, which should not only meet the basic functions of the building, but also take into account the artistic aesthetic needs. Only in the general direction of respecting the specialty can we ensure the high quality and high quality of the building. (Xinhua News Agency)