{"id":116443,"date":"2020-05-17T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/banning-knockoff-buildings-might-bring-a-renaissance-in-chinese-architecture\/"},"modified":"2020-05-17T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:13:51","slug":"banning-knockoff-buildings-might-bring-a-renaissance-in-chinese-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/banning-knockoff-buildings-might-bring-a-renaissance-in-chinese-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning knockoff buildings might bring a renaissance in Chinese architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter decades of allowing ersatz imitations, the government is finally returning to the country\u2019s culture for inspirationIn bad news for postmodern ironists, the People\u2019s Republic of China has announced a ban on \u201cplagiarising, imitating and copycatting\u201d foreign architecture. For a good quarter of a century, Chinese developers have been entertaining the world\u2019s urban theorists and architectural pontificators (as well as good number of the country\u2019s own people) with imitations of western buildings. It wasn\u2019t just a case of make-believe English villages and multiple Eiffel Towers but also new-minted icons, fresh from the pages of architecture magazines. Norman Foster\u2019s Century Tower in Tokyo, for example, popped up in Shenzhen, with somewhat less crisp detailing. Sometimes Las Vegas hotels, themselves knockoffs of historic monuments, would in turn be knocked off. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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After decades of allowing ersatz imitations, the government is finally returning to the country\u2019s culture...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ui7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19598,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/chinese-government-bans-weird-shaped-buildings-but-not-everyone-takes-note\/","url_meta":{"origin":116443,"position":0},"title":"Chinese government bans \u2018weird\u2019 shaped buildings \u2013 but not everyone takes note","date":"July 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Chinese government has chosen to rein in the creativity of its country\u2019s architects\u2026 although arguably for the better Beijing National Stadium, also known as the \u2018Birds Nest.\u2019 Image credit: Scott Edmunds (Flickr) At first glance it may have appeared that the Chinese government was being far too serious\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5474,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sorry-no-more-strange-buildings-in-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":116443,"position":1},"title":"Sorry, no more strange buildings in China","date":"February 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Odd-shaped buildings are now banned \u201cBig Trousers\u201d, as the CCTV headquarters is nicknamed, may be among the last of strange-looking towers in Chinese cities (Photo by Philippe Ruault) China has been known to produce a significant number of tall towers in the last few years, including some of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24387,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-chinas-luxury-homes-are-proud-to-be-chinese-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":116443,"position":2},"title":"How China\u2019s luxury homes are proud to be Chinese again","date":"August 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Out with European design, in with traditional architecture China\u2019s most expensive house, Unique Taohuayuan, lists for CNY1 billion (USD149 million) and features traditional Chinese architecture. 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