1.平壤柳京飯店

1. Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea
平壤柳京飯店（朝鮮）

Located in Pyongyang, the capital of DPRK, Ryugyong Hotel is 330 meters high. Construction of this hotel began in 1987. However, the project was suspended in 1992 due to financial problems and restarted in 2008. It is expected to be completed in 2013.
這個海拔330米的飯店始建于1987年，坐落于朝鮮首府平壤。中途因遭遇1992年的金融危機(jī)而停工，16年之后飯店工程重啟，預(yù)計在2013年竣工。

2.迪拜亞特蘭蒂斯酒店

2. Atlantis Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
迪拜亞特蘭蒂斯酒店（阿聯(lián)酋）

Opened with great fanfare, not to mention eye-wateringly wasteful expense, at the end of 2008, the hotel boasts some quality restaurants and an admittedly great water park. The less said about its car-crash of an exterior the better.
由巨額資金打造的亞特蘭蒂斯酒店工程在鑼鼓喧天中動工。至2008年末，酒店已擁有若干高級餐廳和一個公認(rèn)美麗的水上公園。至于那丑到能讓汽車追尾的外觀，我們就不提了。

Fact: The display that launched the hotel used 100,000 fireworks, around seven times more than were set off at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
事實(shí)：酒店開業(yè)典禮燃放了十萬束煙花，比2008年北京奧運(yùn)會開幕式所放禮花數(shù)目高出七倍以上！

3.羅馬尼亞國會大廈

3. Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
布加勒斯特國會大廈（羅馬尼亞）

The building has over 1,100 rooms, is 12 stories tall and has several underground levels. Impressive undoubtedly, it’s just a shame that much of Bucharest’s historic center including 30,000 residences and 28 churches had to make way for the project.
這座大廈有1100個房間，高12層，地下還有幾層。大廈之富麗堂皇無疑令世人驚嘆，但遺憾的是，布加勒斯特市部分歷史中心區(qū)，其中包括3萬間民居和8個教堂，都不得不為它讓路。

4.捷克奇奇科夫電視塔

4. Zizkov Television Tower, Prague, Czech Republic
布拉格奇奇科夫電視塔（捷克）

The trouble with 216-meter towers is that they tend to be noticed. You would be forgiven then for wondering why the architect tasked with designing a giant transmitter tower in one of Europe’s most picturesque cities didn’t come up with something better than this replica of a space-shuttle launch.
這座216米高塔的問題是沒有引起廣泛的關(guān)注。你會好奇在布拉格這樣一個歐洲最風(fēng)景如畫的城市，被委以重任設(shè)計巨型發(fā)射塔任務(wù)的建筑師，怎么只造出了這樣一個比航天飛機(jī)發(fā)射塔好看不到哪兒去的建筑來。

Immediately resented by Prague residents on its completion in 1992, the concrete and aluminum structure is almost apologetic in its incongruity amidst the surrounding historic splendor -- neither imposing or iconic enough to inspire even grudging respect.
這個電視塔在1992年完工之后就立即招來當(dāng)?shù)鼐用竦姆锤校褂玫幕炷梁徒饘俳Y(jié)構(gòu)簡直玷污了周圍歷史名跡的光輝。又因?yàn)榻ㄖO(shè)計缺乏城市象征性，人們對其避而遠(yuǎn)之，沒有哪怕一絲的好感。

5.西雅圖體驗(yàn)音樂博物館

5. Experience Music Project, Seattle, United States
西雅圖音樂體驗(yàn)博物館（美國）

The architect supposedly channeled the anarchy of "smashed-up Fender Stratocaster guitars" into his design. The fact his astronomical fee resulted in something more akin to Technicolor open heart surgery can’t have been music to the ears of project founder Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen.
建筑師恐怕是將芬達(dá)吉他的肆意混亂理念融入到他的設(shè)計中。設(shè)計師花費(fèi)巨額經(jīng)費(fèi)，設(shè)計出了這棟結(jié)構(gòu)類似于彩拍開心臟手術(shù)的建筑。這樣的建筑恐怕無法創(chuàng)造美妙的音樂讓動聽的旋律打動項(xiàng)目的發(fā)起人——微軟億萬富翁保羅·艾倫。

6.越南胡志明陵寢

6. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Hanoi, Vietnam
胡志明陵寢（越南）

The structure itself is apparently meant to evoke Vietnamese traditions including a communal house and a lotus flower (how the two can be combined in one building is unclear) but crueler observers have compared it to a giant Greco-Roman public toilet.
很明顯，陵墓的設(shè)計是想喚起越南人民對傳統(tǒng)的印象：建筑包括一所公舍和一朵蓮花（我們還是很匪夷所思這兩樣毫不相干的東西如何共同融合于一所建筑中），但一些尖刻的家伙們卻將其比作是希臘羅馬式的公共廁所。

7.利物浦都會大教堂

7.Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England
利物浦都會大教堂（英國）

Far from conjuring images of heavenly repose, the church is more akin to a giant concrete tent, hence its local nickname "Paddy’s Wigwam" (Paddy being pejorative for Catholics of Irish descent).
這座教堂完全不像是供神靈休息的圣地，分明就是一個巨大的混凝土帳篷！拜當(dāng)?shù)厝怂n，這所教堂還有個諷刺的昵稱“帕迪的小棚屋”（帕迪是對愛爾蘭天主教徒的輕蔑稱呼）。

The Cathedral project was ill-starred from the off. Designs by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Adrian Gilbert Scott were rejected for being, in the case of the former, too expensive, and in the case of the latter, not good enough. The task eventually fell to Sir Frederick Gibberd and it is his finished product that stands to this day.
這座教堂從一開始就霉運(yùn)連連。最初由魯琴斯爵士和阿德里恩吉爾伯特·斯科特設(shè)計，但由于魯琴斯收費(fèi)昂貴，斯科特設(shè)計不甚滿意，設(shè)計方案都被否決了。項(xiàng)目最后交給弗雷德里克爵士負(fù)責(zé)，屹立至今的教堂就是他的設(shè)計作品。

8.波特蘭大廈

8. The Portland Building, Portland, United States
波特蘭大廈（美國）

It is an accepted fact that the 1980s was the decade where taste went mad and decided to start donning pattern sweaters and shoulder pads. However, that still doesn’t explain why judges went with Michael Graves’ design for a new civic building in the U.S. state of Oregon.
眾所周知，20世紀(jì)80年代開始，人們的品味開始變得很瘋狂，人們開始穿花樣毛衣戴墊肩。不過，這也實(shí)在不應(yīng)該成為邁克爾·格雷夫斯將俄勒岡州的市政大廈設(shè)計成這樣的理由。

9.沈陽方圓大廈

9. The Fang Yuan Building, Shenyang, China
沈陽方圓大廈（中國）

Like most of the buildings on our list, this effort is distinctive if not distinguished. Architect CY Lee –- who did a much better job with his Taipei 101 skyscraper over in Taiwan -– wanted to fuse cultures by merging an old Chinese coin, complete with square cut-out, with a contemporary modern office block.
像我們列出的大部分建筑一樣，方圓大廈設(shè)計不算丑得標(biāo)新立異，但也丑得很有特色。該設(shè)計師李祖原的另一個作品臺北101大廈明顯就出彩許多。李祖原將中國傳統(tǒng)的孔方形狀錢幣與現(xiàn)代辦公大樓相結(jié)合，力圖達(dá)到文化交融的目的。

Fact: Critics may not like it but the local party bigwigs evidently do. It has been voted the best building in Shenyang by the impartial judges on several occasions.
事實(shí)：它雖不受輿論大眾的青睞，但當(dāng)?shù)氐臋?quán)威機(jī)構(gòu)卻非常喜歡。它多次被機(jī)關(guān)部門選為沈陽最具特色的建筑。

10.巴西石油公司總部

10. Petrobras Headquarters, Rio De Janiero, Brazil
巴西石油公司總部（巴西）

In a way you have to admire Petrobras for its audacity. After all, it is not every leading multi-national firm (the energy company is the biggest in Latin America) that chooses to house its showpiece headquarters in a building that's as awful as this.
從某種角度來講，你必須佩服巴西石油公司的創(chuàng)新大膽。畢竟，不是每個世界知名的跨國企業(yè)（巴西石油是拉美規(guī)模最大的企業(yè)）都能有勇氣將自己展現(xiàn)門面的總部選址在這么丑陋的一座大廈里。

A cross between a Lego tower and a bombed-out shell, quite why the company went with this dreary block is unclear.
人們還是搞不懂為什么這家公司青睞如此死板的外形構(gòu)造：樂高積木塔和爆破的外殼相互交錯的意義何在？