10月號的 Travel + Leisure 雜誌評選出世界 15座最醜的建築物中，圖書館就占了二個名額，分別是美國芝加哥 Harold Washington Library 及白俄羅斯明斯克(Minsk) 的 National Library。由於從網站中看不出評選標準，所以也有不少讀者有不相同的見解。
Harold Washington Library
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If buildings came with footnotes, this one, named for a beloved former mayor who deserved better, would have pages worth of citations. Neoclassical references collide with a glass-and-steel Mannerist roof; throw in some red brick, granite, and aluminum—and a bad sense of scale—and you’ve got way too much architecture class for one day.The Ugly Truth: Opened in 1991 and designed by the firm Hammond, Beeby, and Babka, the Chicago public library has a helter-skelter application of motifs and styles that’s “locked in the postmodern era,” says Peter Koliopoulos of Circle West Architects in Scottsdale, AZ
Minsk National Library
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You can’t really hate this glass-paneled, 23-story rhombicuboctahedron (a solid with 8 triangles and 18 squares), complete with color-changing LEDs to make it sparkle at night. After all, it’s difficult to begrudge a library with such mojo. But the designers should have stopped there. Instead, what’s referred to as “the diamond” sits atop a geometry equation gone wrong—tiered circles, huge triangles, winglike flaps.The Ugly Truth: The winners of a government-sponsored search, architects Michael Vinogradov and Viktor Kramarenko, were expected to make a statement. The government wanted tourist-attracting drama, a desire that seems to have been fulfilled; the 2006 opening attracted a flurry of attention.
在這 15座最醜的建築物中，我驚見 “一群” 很眼熟的建築物，它就是台北縣三芝的飛碟屋。其實我覺得它設計的也蠻特別的呀，應該不到醜的地步吧。可惜的是這些飛碟屋在去年底就被拆除了。
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If visitors had ever arrived at this resort on Taiwan’s north coast, they would have slept in an uncomfortable-looking, spaceship-like pod. As it happens, nothing ever got off the ground at this twice-abandoned project from the 1970s.The Ugly Truth: Because developers left these four-winged capsules empty for years, information about them is spotty; it seems, however, that the businessman who built the resort in the 1970s wanted it to look like a landing pad for Martians. The Taiwanese government plans to tear down the alien abodes, so see them while you can!
延伸閱讀：
Travel + Leisure Magazine － The World’s Ugliest Buildings
Chicago Tribune － Harold Washington Library Center makes the world’s ugliest list—c’mon, it’s not that bad
RainDog － 三芝飛碟屋12/29拆除！
香腸炒魷魚 － [獨家](San Zhi)三芝飛碟屋-完整事件還原
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