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Toilet is China’s Ugliest Building? More Nearby & 2 in Nanjing!

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Comparisons to toilets are something of a recurring theme in the 2022 list of architectural eyesores in China, as voted for by the general public and released at the end of each year. And the outright winner this year is just down the road from Nanjing!

与厕所的比较是 2022 年中国建筑碍眼名单中反复出现的主题,该名单由公众投票选出并于每年年底发布。今年的冠军得主就在距南京不远的地方!

Each year since 2010, respected Chinese architecture website, Archycy.com, makes a list of the 100 latest buildings to have raised an eyebrow or two as their aesthetic value. And that’s putting it nicely.

自 2010 年以来,备受推崇的中国建筑网站 Archycy.com 每年都会列出 100 座最新建筑的名单,这些建筑的美学价值令人惊讶。说得很好。

Then the public get involved and hundreds of thousands of votes later, we have the complete ranking. Thankfully, nothing in Jiangsu Province makes the top 10 (not even close), but #1 is in fact located so close Nanjing buses serve the city in question where China’s ugliest building is located.

然后公众参与进来,经过数十万次投票,我们就有了完整的排名。值得庆幸的是,江苏省没有任何一个地方能跻身前十(甚至相差甚远),但实际上,排名第一的南京公交车距离中国最丑建筑所在的城市非常近。

That would be Ma’anshan City in Anhui Province, a mere 50 kilometers from downtown Nanjing. It is there, then, that we meet our winner; the Corpus Museum of the Human Body, pictured above, in Zhengpu Port of Ma’anshan.

那是安徽省马鞍山市,距南京市中心仅 50 公里。那么,正是在那里,我们遇到了我们的胜利者。位于马鞍山郑铺港的人体本体博物馆(上图)。

Responsible for this design wonder is Wolbrand van der Vis of Dutch outfit PBV Architects. Incredulously, the Ma’anshan edifice is virtually identical to its “mother” some 35 kilometres from Amsterdam.

荷兰建筑事务所 PBV Architects 的 Wolbrand van der Vis 负责这一设计奇迹。令人难以置信的是,马鞍山大厦实际上与其距阿姆斯特丹约 35 公里的“母亲”一模一样。

Some ¥350 million has already been spent on the Museum in which visitors can see, feel, and hear how the body works. Locals, however, have glossed over its educational value, preferring to just call it, “The Toilet”.

该博物馆已投入约 3.5 亿日元,游客可以在其中看到、感受和听到身体的运作方式。然而,当地人掩盖了它的教育价值,宁愿称其为“厕所”。

Next, we should move back to Nanjing, where we find our two home-grown “offenders” of architectural good sense, neither of which this publication believes to be befitting of their placing in the top 100.

接下来,我们应该回到南京,在那里我们发现了两个土生土长的建筑良知“罪犯”,本出版物认为它们都不适合进入前 100 名。

First, the Nanjing Eco-tech Island Exhibition Centre. Located in Jiangxinzhou, the Centre has dramatic roof lines which allegedly leave a deep impression on visitors. The eight peaks of the roof are also intended to invoke our city’s Sun-yat Sen Mausoleum. Nanjing Eco-tech Island Exhibition Centre is ranked #69 on this year’s architectural wall of shame.

一是南京生态科技岛展示中心。该中心位于江心洲,其引人注目的屋顶线条据说给游客留下了深刻的印象。屋顶的八个山峰也是为了纪念我们城市的中山陵。南京生态科技岛会展中心在今年的建筑耻辱墙上排名第69位。

Then we come to Yincheng Kinma Q+ Community. Positioned as a youth community in Maqun, the facility offers space for 940 shared living apartments; private bedrooms complimented by shared facilities, including kitchen, gym, laundry, etc. Green aluminium plates make up the facade, with large inclined windows reflecting the sky from different angles. #53 on this year’s list.

接下来我们来到银城金马Q+社区。该设施定位为 Maqun 的青年社区,提供 940 间共享居住公寓的空间;私人卧室配有共用设施,包括厨房、健身房、洗衣房等。绿色铝板构成了立面,倾斜的大窗户从不同角度反射着天空。今年榜单上排名第 53 位。

Away from Nanjing, we find two examples which are truly deserving of their ranking in China’s 100 ugliest buildings for 2022.

在南京之外,我们发现了两个真正值得入围 2022 年中国最丑建筑 100 座的例子。

First stop, an hour and a half’s drive north of Nanjing, we find the Yangzhou Aviation Museum. Over some 6,000 square metres and as the first aviation cultural complex in China, the Museum’s main building is inspired by the city’s “Yangzhou Lantern” intangible cultural heritage. #48.

第一站,从南京以北一个半小时的车程,我们找到了扬州航空博物馆。博物馆主体建筑面积约6000平方米,是国内首个航空文化综合体,其设计灵感源自扬州非物质文化遗产“扬州彩灯”。 #48。

Rounding out the four monstrosities in Jiangsu, the Nantong Star Lake City Plaza, a complex so ugly even Archcy themselves have difficulty in coming up with any kind of architectural reasoning. “The aluminum lines allow the modern and fashionable sense of business to be transferred. The building has created a space that can flow.” We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. #32.

南通星湖城市广场是江苏四大怪兽中的佼佼者,这座建筑如此丑陋,连Archcy自己都很难想出任何建筑推理。 “铝线条让现代时尚的商务感得以传递,建筑创造了一个可以流动的空间。”我们自己无法把它说得更好。 #32。

And for interested readers, another toilet comparison has been made to the Guangzhou Aviation Tyre Science Centre, at #4 in this year’s ranking. With its role in part as an aviation tire manufacturing test base, the Centre is referred to as the largest tire on Earth. But that’s not fooling anyone.

对于感兴趣的读者,我们还与今年排名第四的广州航空轮胎科学中心进行了另一个厕所比较。该中心作为航空轮胎制造测试基地,被称为地球上最大的轮胎。但这并不能欺骗任何人。