1.平壤柳京饭店

1. Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea
平壤柳京饭店（朝鲜）

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.
这个海拔330米的饭店始建于1987年，坐落于朝鲜首府平壤。中途因遭遇1992年的金融危机而停工，16年之后饭店工程重启，预计在2013年竣工。

2.迪拜亚特兰蒂斯酒店

2. Atlantis Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
迪拜亚特兰蒂斯酒店（阿联酋）

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.
由巨额资金打造的亚特兰蒂斯酒店工程在锣鼓喧天中动工。至2008年末，酒店已拥有若干高级餐厅和一个公认美丽的水上公园。至于那丑到能让汽车追尾的外观，我们就不提了。

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.
事实：酒店开业典礼燃放了十万束烟花，比2008年北京奥运会开幕式所放礼花数目高出七倍以上！

3.罗马尼亚国会大厦

3. Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
布加勒斯特国会大厦（罗马尼亚）

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.
这座大厦有1100个房间，高12层，地下还有几层。大厦之富丽堂皇无疑令世人惊叹，但遗憾的是，布加勒斯特市部分历史中心区，其中包括3万间民居和8个教堂，都不得不为它让路。

4.捷克奇奇科夫电视塔

4. Zizkov Television Tower, Prague, Czech Republic
布拉格奇奇科夫电视塔（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.
这座216米高塔的问题是没有引起广泛的关注。你会好奇在布拉格这样一个欧洲最风景如画的城市，被委以重任设计巨型发射塔任务的建筑师，怎么只造出了这样一个比航天飞机发射塔好看不到哪儿去的建筑来。

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.
这个电视塔在1992年完工之后就立即招来当地居民的反感，它所使用的混凝土和金属结构简直玷污了周围历史名迹的光辉。又因为建筑设计缺乏城市象征性，人们对其避而远之，没有哪怕一丝的好感。

5.西雅图体验音乐博物馆

5. Experience Music Project, Seattle, United States
西雅图音乐体验博物馆（美国）

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.
建筑师恐怕是将芬达吉他的肆意混乱理念融入到他的设计中。设计师花费巨额经费，设计出了这栋结构类似于彩拍开心脏手术的建筑。这样的建筑恐怕无法创造美妙的音乐让动听的旋律打动项目的发起人——微软亿万富翁保罗·艾伦。

6.越南胡志明陵寝

6. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Hanoi, Vietnam
胡志明陵寝（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.
很明显，陵墓的设计是想唤起越南人民对传统的印象：建筑包括一所公舍和一朵莲花（我们还是很匪夷所思这两样毫不相干的东西如何共同融合于一所建筑中），但一些尖刻的家伙们却将其比作是希腊罗马式的公共厕所。

7.利物浦都会大教堂

7.Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England
利物浦都会大教堂（英国）

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).
这座教堂完全不像是供神灵休息的圣地，分明就是一个巨大的混凝土帐篷！拜当地人所赐，这所教堂还有个讽刺的昵称“帕迪的小棚屋”（帕迪是对爱尔兰天主教徒的轻蔑称呼）。

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.
这座教堂从一开始就霉运连连。最初由鲁琴斯爵士和阿德里恩吉尔伯特·斯科特设计，但由于鲁琴斯收费昂贵，斯科特设计不甚满意，设计方案都被否决了。项目最后交给弗雷德里克爵士负责，屹立至今的教堂就是他的设计作品。

8.波特兰大厦

8. The Portland Building, Portland, United States
波特兰大厦（美国）

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.
众所周知，20世纪80年代开始，人们的品味开始变得很疯狂，人们开始穿花样毛衣戴垫肩。不过，这也实在不应该成为迈克尔·格雷夫斯将俄勒冈州的市政大厦设计成这样的理由。

9.沈阳方圆大厦

9. The Fang Yuan Building, Shenyang, China
沈阳方圆大厦（中国）

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.
像我们列出的大部分建筑一样，方圆大厦设计不算丑得标新立异，但也丑得很有特色。该设计师李祖原的另一个作品台北101大厦明显就出彩许多。李祖原将中国传统的孔方形状钱币与现代办公大楼相结合，力图达到文化交融的目的。

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.
事实：它虽不受舆论大众的青睐，但当地的权威机构却非常喜欢。它多次被机关部门选为沈阳最具特色的建筑。

10.巴西石油公司总部

10. Petrobras Headquarters, Rio De Janiero, Brazil
巴西石油公司总部（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.
从某种角度来讲，你必须佩服巴西石油公司的创新大胆。毕竟，不是每个世界知名的跨国企业（巴西石油是拉美规模最大的企业）都能有勇气将自己展现门面的总部选址在这么丑陋的一座大厦里。

A cross between a Lego tower and a bombed-out shell, quite why the company went with this dreary block is unclear.
人们还是搞不懂为什么这家公司青睐如此死板的外形构造：乐高积木塔和爆破的外壳相互交错的意义何在？