第二次世界大战之后,英国的经济遭到很大损失。被炸毁的城市需要修复和兴建,但是由于物资缺乏,在当时,即使是新建的商业建筑也大都标准较低。开发商急于获取投资的效益。他们所关心的只是工程造价和进度,尚未认识到建筑艺术效果在商业中的作用。同时有些建筑师受现代派建筑思潮的影响,所以出现了一些不加装饰,外形方正简单的商业建筑。近三十年的经济发展,随物质生活水平的提高,人们的鉴赏 After the Second World War, the British economy suffered a great loss. The bombed city needed to be repaired and built, but due to the lack of materials, even the newly built commercial buildings were mostly of low standards at the time. Developers are eager to get the benefits of investment. What they care about is the cost and progress of the project, and they have not yet realized the role of architectural arts in business. At the same time, some architects were influenced by the trend of modernist architecture. Therefore, some unadorned and simple commercial buildings emerged. In the past 30 years of economic development, with the improvement of the material quality of life, people’s appreciation