I strongly believe that old buildings should destroy and replace them with modern building rather than try to preserve, since old building cannot accommodate demand of population increase and could threaten people to use the building.
First of all, preserve building fails to keep up with the speed of the population increase. In these days, buildings are required to accommodate a lot of people. This is because today’s population have increased and they have needed places to live. However, old buildings are not satisfying such needs. Thus, I claim that old building should renovate in order to accommodate a lot of people who need house. According to the study by Korean Research Center, 64 percent of the surveyed construction officers answered that today’s problem that is shortage of house can solve through renovating old building. Based on the study, long-standing buildings have caused shortage of house problem and should be reconstructed to solve the problem.
In addition, age-worn buildings endanger our safety. Some people say that old building is able to attract many tourists. However, attracting many tourists cannot outweigh the safety of our citizens. Thus, renovating worn-out building is a good way to preserve our citizens. Take our country case as an example; there are many old buildings in Yongsan, Korea. Last year, many people got caught in the elevator that set up in one of the old building since the elevator did not function, and they were isolated for a long time. To fix the elevator, some engineers visited the build, but they had difficulty repairing the facility because the building’s elevator is so worn-out. Eventually, the elevator was barely fixed. However, If the elevator had not been fixed on time, the elevator might cost many lives of residents. As the case illustrates, since old building’s facility pose always threat to many people who often visit there, the building should demolish for our citizens.
In conclusion, I think that government should invest to build new constructs for the following two reasons. First, modern building can solve the shortage of house problem. Besides, new building will preserve our citizens from threats caused by old building’s facilities. |