外交部办公楼设计及其联想

中华人民共和国外交部新办公楼于1997年6月20日香港回归祖国前夕举行了竣工典礼，标志着我国外交部终于有了自己的一座办公楼。40多年来外交部办公地址几经搬动，始终没有一个合适的办公处，现在的办公地址是原中国科学院情报所的办公楼。从90年代末就开始酝酿新建办公楼事，但由于种种原因，一直未能实现，直到1991年才决定新建办公楼。外交部于1991年8月向北京地区5家、外省市2家共7家设计单位征集方案，第一轮共征集到11个方案，这几个方案各具特色，均有相当水平，但由于与甲方的设想尚有一定的距离，决定再作第二轮方案，由建设部建筑…

On the Design of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, with a construction area of 11. o7 million square metres, was completed on June 2Oth, 1997.The author elaborates his viewpoints on architectural creation citing the Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an object of . analysis. First of all, he thinks it is more important to catch the features of a building than to create a style. The design of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has grasped two of its features: 1 ) It is an administrative rather than commercial building; 2) It is the office building of the foreign affairs department of the Chinese government reflecting the rnomentum of the Chinese people standing erect in the world. Second, he thinks that a sense of environment, typically geographical location and climate,should be fully expressed in architectural design. Third, he expresses his views on inheritance from tradition. He thinks it very shallow to move traditional forms (traditional Chinese roof for example) onto a new building.The right approach should be the establishment of a new tradition based on the meeting of the needs of contemporary people by means of new technologies. Finally, the author talks about the use of building materials. Cheap materials properly used can achieve equally good results. The stones used for the Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are all home made.