Buildings without culture will be called "construction waste". However, ugly buildings can often be seen during 30 years of rapid urbanization in China, highlighting the backwardness and blind imitation of some designers in aesthetic aspects and exposing urban management officials' loss of urban culture.

The emergence of these "ugly buildings" can be attributed to the rapid urbanization of China in the past 30 years, but it is more related to the lack of cultural consciousness in architecture. Due to inadequate cultural aesthetics in city constructions, "ugly buildings" have caused a variety of problems, such as unreasonable functions, being incongruous with natural conditions and surrounding environment, imitating ancient architecture, worshipping foreign architectural style, buildings integrating Western and Chinese styles, and mechanical biological imitations, all of which are nothing meaningful but failures in China's city constructions.

In the future, city buildings must return to the position of showing urban culture and avoiding the "construction waste", rather than acting as a carrier displaying material desires. A unique building with cultural connotation is a monument, embodying meaningful concept and aesthetic taste, and its urban culture can be a reflection of the local cultural traditions and humanistic spirit.

In addition, there is no need to destroy the old and establish the new to truly express urban culture. We should respect the tradition and history. Rome is the home of world architecture because it retains the architectural features of different time periods from ancient Rome to Gothic, Baroque and Rococo. The insistence and respect of history vitalize the city buildings and make them more likely to be remembered.

Therefore, only with urban culture and aesthetic sense, and respect for history and cultural traditions, can buildings with a cultural soul be constructed in the process of urbanization. These buildings will not lose themselves in the crisis of homogeneous constructions, or be easily tarnished by the ugly buildings.

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