The imagery of contemporary Chinese city buildings, which has finally got rid of their heavy political symbol, is now generally moving towards the simple symbol of pure visual aesthetics. The gradual change reflects that in the consumption-dominated period, the needs of Chinese people on their visual desires in architecture are demonstrated as lifestyle, aesthetic needs and diverse euhural identities, which just agrees with the desires of the political-achievements-oriented city administrators and profitoriented city operators. Consequently, architecture has come to serve as the outlet of thei...
