Architecture is the floorboard of buildings and structures. It is an artificial environment created by people in order to meet the needs of social life, using the material and technical means they have mastered and applying certain scientific laws, geomantic concepts and aesthetic laws. In order to clearly express usability, some classifications will distinguish buildings from non-building structures that people have not lived in for a long time. In addition, in order to avoid confusion, some architects deliberately divide the buildings whose appearance has been consciously created by people into "buildings". It should be pointed out that sometimes buildings can be expanded to include "non-building structures", such as bridges, electric towers and tunnels.
Architecture is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Buildings in a broad sense refer to all things artificially built, including both houses and structures. Buildings in a narrow sense refer to houses, excluding structures. A house refers to a space with a foundation, walls, roofs, doors and windows, which can shelter people from the wind and rain and allow people to live, work, study, entertain, store things or carry out other activities. Structures refer to buildings outside houses, where people generally do not directly carry out production and living activities, such as chimneys, water towers, bridges, dams and so on.
Representative buildings in China
the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. It consists of more than 70 palaces and more than 9,000 rooms. Among them, the Palace Museum has national first-class cultural relics such as The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival and Qianlong Gu Yong Cup, which was listed as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO on 1987.
The Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower
The Oriental Pearl is one of the landmark buildings in Shanghai, with a total height of 468 meters. It consists of three diagonal braces, three pillars, a square, a tower, a lower sphere, an upper sphere, five small spheres and a space capsule. It is one of the top ten new landscapes in Shanghai, which integrates shopping, entertainment, city sightseeing, Pujiang sightseeing, radio and television launch and other functions.
Canton Tower
Guang Zhouta, also known as Little Man's Waist, is the tallest tower in China, with a main height of 454 meters and a total height of 600 meters. On the Guang Zhouta, you can not only go to the revolving restaurant to taste delicious food and enjoy the scenery, but also the Ferris wheel at the top of the tower is one of the top ten in the world, and the maximum ride amusement project is also the highest vertical downhill amusement project in the world. Those who like excitement must not miss it.
the luoyang bridge
Wan 'an Bridge, once known as "Wan 'an Bridge", is a bridge connecting the Taiwanese investment zone in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China and Luojiang District. Located on the Luoyang River, it is also a famous cross-sea girder bridge, known as the "first bridge on the sea" and one of the "four famous bridges" in ancient times.