You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. In the past, buildings often reflected the culture of a society but today all modern buildings look alike and cities throughout the world are becoming more and more similar. What do you think is the reason for this, and is it a good thing or a bad thing? Write at least 250 words.

In
past
Suggestion
the past
every
country
had its own design of
building
Suggestion
the building
which reflected their culture and to make house adopt to the location’s
climate
changes. People in
past
Suggestion
the past
were wiser and they knew which material is best for to build the house in some particular place. In modern society the building architectural design
is same almost
Suggestion
is almost same
everywhere.
For example
, city building plan: in
city center
Suggestion
the city centre
city centre
there are skyscrapers or tall buildings close to
center
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
centre
enter
there are similar apartments and in suburban areas and
country
sides there are houses with two
floor
Suggestion
floors
.
This
system is same everywhere regardless of their culture,
climate
changes and so on. Modern building didn’t have anything similar to past time buildings and unlike past time
buildings modern
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buildings, modern
building
don’t have
Suggestion
doesn’t have
any cultural reflection of the
country
. The reason for
this
is that world population
increasing rapidly and to
Suggestion
increasing rapidly and
provide
house
Suggestion
housing
for everyone people start building tall apartments which could fit more people. It is hard to call
this
good or bad thing because it destroys cultural values of
country but
Suggestion
the country, but
the country but
if they stick to old time building there will not be enough places for people to live. But I think it is close to bad thing because some countries when they build modern building they don’t adapt it for their own
climate
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climate, for
for
example building
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example, building
tall building
Suggestion
tall buildings
a tall building
in a place where earthquakes are common which is dangerous. In
conclusion there
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conclusion, there
are a lot places where old building is restored. But I don’t think
that is
enough I
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enough, I
think they should adapt the modern building to their
climate
and culture.
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