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天桥底下铺满了水泥柱让无家可归者无法栖身，公交站亭里的座椅太窄没法久坐，这样的公共建筑设计曾经让不少人诟病，不过，据说这样的设计就是为了阻止人们过度使用这些公共建筑的。因此，这些建筑也被人们称为“不友好建筑”。 Have you ever stood at a bus shelter and longed to take the weight off your feet, only to be presented with the unpleasant prospect of some kind of metal contraption for leaning on? If you've then wondered how anyone could possibly get comfortable using it, then the answer is simply this – they're not supposed to. In a new wave of design, dubbed hostile architecture, aesthetics are not the only motivating factor when making choices about the form and fabric of particular constructions. 你是否曾经在某个公交站亭，想要坐下歇歇脚，却发现只有一个造型诡异的金属装置可以倚靠一阵？你如果有过这样的经历，那么你可能会想，这样的装置人们用着怎么会舒服呢？答案是，人家本来就没想让你用。建筑设计界新近刮起一阵风，叫做“不友好建筑”，在选择某个特定建筑的形式和材料的时候，美学已不是唯一的决定因素。 It highlights a wide architectural trend in which constructions in public spaces are incorporating design elements deliberately intended to stop people impacting on them. Examples include narrow, slanted bus shelter seats that are barely suitable for sitting on (and would be impossible for a homeless person to sleep on), benches with bulky armrests or protrusions which prevent people from reclining or sitting for long periods, jagged, irregular paved areas in order to deter skateboarders, bollards under bridges and flyovers to prevent skateboarding and sheltering, and studded window ledges which discourage people from sitting or lying down. | 
