The Ugly Buildings Thread

[Eldritch]

Post pictures of the ugliest buildings in your city.



I've already found pics of the #5-#2 five ugliest buildings in Helsinki, but still searching for an image of #1. Trust me, when you see a picture of it, your computer monitor will probably short-circuit.

[The Lawspeaker]

I know just about twenty buildings that I find pretty abhorrent but I have no camera so I will post them when I have one...

I have found some in Utrecht though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Neudeflat.jpg
De Neudeflat. This block of flats stands right in the middle of the old town overlooking the Neude square and the Oude Gracht canal. It's not just an eyesore- it's an offense to my eyes.


http://www.deboorder.nl/imgObject/49705af7eab8d9fee97c3b1f32937a74.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Vredenburgplein_2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Vredenburgplein.jpg

All part of the Hoog Catherijne- shopping precinct. The inside looks pretty good though.

[Atlas]

We call this skyline "La Défense" around here. It's in west Paris.

http://www.parislodging.fr/cms/images/quartiers/36_57.jpg

There are currently two news skyscraper being build. Hope they will be more beautiful. They will be 300Meters. High for Europe standars.

[Loki]

We call this skyline "La Défense" around here. It's in west Paris.

http://www.parislodging.fr/cms/images/quartiers/36_57.jpg

There are currently two news skyscraper being build. Hope they will be more beautiful. They will be 300Meters. High for Europe standars.

But that's not ugly? :) I've been to La Défense and like the skyline. :thumb001:

[Beorn]

It's not in my city, but this monstrosity resides in my country and I think it is one of the biggest eyesores (along with other great architectural endeavours like the Millenium Dome, etc..) this nation currently has to its credit.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/12/1216_wow/image/08_webley.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

But things are looking up in Utrecht: they'll be blowing a part of the Hoog Catherijne-stuff and the adjacent musical arts center (fourth picture- to the right) sky high as the entire area around the Central Station will receive a much needed facelift

[The Lawspeaker]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Tuindorp-west_Complex_%28TWC%29_Utrecht.jpg

Another atrocious example: the brutalist Tuindorp West-Complex- flats (Utrecht). In all three towers asbestos has been found in students rooms.

[Treffie]

This isn't in my city, it's in Sheffield, but it's probably one of the plainest buildings ever built. Funny thing is, it's now a listed building.

The Park Hill Estate

http://www.building.co.uk/Pictures/web/q/g/d/AT7350HIRES.jpg


Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/62266315_90adc324c8.jpg

[Tabiti]

http://gal.gradski.bg/albums/userpics/10004/normal_%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6_ 056.jpg
http://pariteni.bg/img.php?w=200&h=150&pic=news_110344056064.jpg
http://stroitelstvo24.eu/files/photo/228_1241297317.jpg
Commie architecture!!!

http://www.arsbg.com/news/images/ndk.gif
Futuristic commie architecture!

[Allenson]

:cool:

.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2940491708_9529e19c6a.jpg?v=0

[Æmeric]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Wal-Mart_in_Madison_Heights.jpg/800px-Wal-Mart_in_Madison_Heights.jpg

Don't know where it is, doesn't really matter.:rolleyes2:

[Tabiti]

I don't think that big supermarkets out of cities need better architecture, imo...After all we don't live in them or see everyday.

[The Lawspeaker]

I don't think that big supermarkets out of cities need better architecture, imo...After all we don't live in them or see everyday.
Between you and me. I think that we should get rid of them altogether. They suck the lifeblood out of honest Main Street entrepreneurs.

[Útrám]

With the exception of down town and the older areas, most of the Reykjavík area consists of nothing but modern, boringly ordinary squared buildings.

good

http://www.art-iceland.com/image-files/reykjavik-multi-shapes-and-colors.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qVUoD9EHNdY/SXd-Nj7nKrI/AAAAAAAAFBY/YGuAWMupo_Y/s400/exterior-house-color-schemes.jpg

boring

http://www.photos.is/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24997&g2_serialNumber=2

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/216671679_28e666bfb5.jpg?v=0

http://ailab.ru.is/images/cadia-kringlan1.png

[anonymaus]

The Art Gallery of Ontario apparently opted for an ironic design when they renovated.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2097&stc=1&d=1245355950

[Atlas]

As for supermarkets. Hundreds of groceries all over a big city would suffice.

[Tabiti]

Between you and me. I think that we should get rid of them altogether. They suck the lifeblood out of honest Main Street entrepreneurs.
Yes, but smaller shops aren't for such global world we live in;)

[Loyalist]

Not "in my city", but close enough; this monstrosity that was added to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It was designed by a Jewish architect (:rolleyes:) and funded by a mixed Chinese and Negro billionaire (:rolleyes2:).

http://i39.tinypic.com/ezpua1.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2gxqplt.jpg

[Beorn]

Don't know where it is, doesn't really matter.:rolleyes2:

I couldn't get any closer with Google maps, but the Asda/Wal-Mart in Bedminster is actually quite sound.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9088/hgfdc.jpg

[Tabiti]

"Stalinist" stype building:
http://mediapool.bg/photo/l_107721.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

Another hideous example would a apartment block in The Hague: de Zwarte Madonna (Black Madonna).

Completed in 1985 it became notorious throughout the city and was torn down in 2008. It will be replaced by two tower blocks that will be used by the Ministeries of Domestic Affairs and Justice.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Zwarte_Madonna_Den_Haag.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/SloopZwMd.jpg

[Rainraven]

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:nOMUHJSx_AThWM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/University_of_Otago_Commerce_Building.jpg

Most of the university buildings are the old original ones from the late 1880's, but we do have a number of more recent monstrosities such as this one :mad:

[Treffie]

The DVLA building, Swansea. This one is near me, it was built on a hill so that it can be seen for about 20 miles in every direction.

http://www.bpclub.com/_Attachments/Gallery/Shared/DVLA.jpg

[Æmeric]

As for supermarkets. Hundreds of groceries all over a big city would suffice.

Supermarkets are more efficient then the tiny groceries. We have plenty of small stores as well in America;


http://www.phx411.com/featured-articles/2006/july/images/circle-k-southern.jpg

Every large American city has hundreds of these convience stores.:rolleyes2:

The problem with the large strip malls is that there are so many of them. Cities are always after more retail sales tax revenue & are quick to approve developement of more shopping centers, at the expense of the slumming of existing shopping centers. Small towns, large cities, they all have run down shopping centers with plenty of vacancies. The US tax code also plays into this by allowing the depreciation in the value of the depressed real estate to written off as a deduction for the companies that own this real estate.

[SuuT]

Supermarkets are more efficient then the tiny groceries. We have plenty of small stores as well in America;


http://www.phx411.com/featured-articles/2006/july/images/circle-k-southern.jpg

Every large American city has hundreds of these convience stores.:rolleyes2:




LOL. Come on, Æmeric..."Circle K" is a 'small store'...? - This is a Branded, ubiquitous, and franchised intra-national chain. You haven't fallen for the illusion of choice in America have you...?

[SuuT]

...designed by a Jewish architect (:rolleyes:) and funded by a mixed Chinese and Negro billionaire (:rolleyes2:).

http://i39.tinypic.com/ezpua1.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2gxqplt.jpg

Here, here.

Why is it that all Modern Architecture and Art must be so obderantly obtrusive: as if to say: "LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE!!!!! LOOK AT MEEEEEE! - I'm here, TOO!!!!!!!!! Forget what I am attached to! LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" :rolleyes:

[Æmeric]

LOL. Come on, Æmeric..."Circle K" is a 'small store'...? - This is a Branded, ubiquitous, and franchised intra-national chain. You haven't fallen for the illusion of choice in America have you...?

I can choose between the Circle K, 7/11 & the Quickiemart, among many other branded stores :food-smiley-004:. These are the contemporary corner stores in America. And I mean they are on every corner not occupied by a Wal-Mart or other regional/national grocery chain.:rolleyes: Franchising (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchising) is just as responsible for the look-alike-appearance of most of America today as much as Wal-Mart, Target , Kroger & other large corporate owned stores.:mcdonplv:

[Tony]

Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/62266315_90adc324c8.jpg

masked jewish letters to mark the place like animals are use to do?:rolleyes:

http://www.daltramontoallalba.it/speciali/immagini/ebraico%201.jpg




Not "in my city", but close enough; this monstrosity that was added to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It was designed by a Jewish architect (:rolleyes:) and funded by a mixed Chinese and Negro billionaire (:rolleyes2:).

http://i39.tinypic.com/ezpua1.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2gxqplt.jpg

It's called deconstructivism and many of his supporting architects are jews , they have destroyed almost every major metropolitan area in the enitire West with that hideous style , they dared to ruin Prague too...

http://khoahoc.com.vn/photos/Image/2007/01/29/Praha_dancing_house.jpg


in my town there's an infamous commieblock called Melara located in the hilly outskirt , thanx God it's the only one they built.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2442608113_83cf3541bf_b.jpg

inside...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/3399866396_29ebf0a157_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/521490932_7f90a58204_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3139/2975566270_436283260f_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/85958435_cc8c4fa5e2_o.jpg

[Rainraven]

The Nelson clock tower

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/103709213_4d8e123121.jpg?v=0

[Treffie]

Tony, I quite like this one - slightly reminiscent of Barcelona.

http://khoahoc.com.vn/photos/Image/2007/01/29/Praha_dancing_house.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

Tony, I quite like this one - slightly reminiscent of Barcelona.

http://khoahoc.com.vn/photos/Image/2007/01/29/Praha_dancing_house.jpg
The only problem is that it is in the wrong city. It shouldn't be in the center of Prague IMHO.

[Tony]

Tony, I quite like this one - slightly reminiscent of Barcelona.

http://khoahoc.com.vn/photos/Image/2007/01/29/Praha_dancing_house.jpg

Then you would have went along with my ex , she was an architect and we were used to argue , me against and she in favour about deconstructionism , while I found it odd and ridicolous she instead found it original , "new" and as breaking the classical boring simemetrical rule , she made fun of me by falsely claiming I only liked cube-shaped buildings.:rolleyes:

Howewer as Lawspeaker said if this style were restricted to the outskirst perhaps I would be a little bit more tolerant but putting them into our historical very city center is sorta architectural rape.

[Bloodeagle]

My municipality contains many ugly buidings.

http://www.anchoragehotelstoday.com/images/hilton-anchorage-hotel-anchorage-alaska-ak.jpg

This building stood for 20 years in this condition as the owners fought the municipality over taxes.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/566540818_d386144822.jpg?v=0

http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/22367189.jpg

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/images/captainCook.jpg

[Peasant]

http://badbritisharchitecture.blogspot.com/2009/03/middlesbrough-college-middlehaven-by.html

This tacky bit of rubbish. It doesn't look too bad inside of it though.

[Foxy]

Unlucky my city has been rebuilt in the 60s-70s, the years of the building speculation in Italy. The city was bombed and almost totally destroyed in the II WW, so the hurry to give an house to the ex evacutated people and to rebuild the city opened the gates to the speculation. The result is that the old buildings of my town now resemble a soviet city, except the former building made by Mussolini, which are neoclassical and the new buildings which are post-modern.

Buildings like these squallid apartments should be banned:
http://www.cityrumors.it/images/stories/fiume_pescara.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Pescara_Piazza_Salotto0001.JPG/800px-Pescara_Piazza_Salotto0001.JPG


The good news is that in the last 10 years the authorities decided to improve the esthetical side of the city and to valorize it. The desire to make it "the second Riccione of Italy", so they have rebuild the tribunal, the central place, the public park, created an area only for walkers and bikes, made a new bridge, created a little borough next to the new tribunal for univeritary students, remade variouse pavements, especially in the downtown, created to air lines (the airport now offers very chip prizes to go to Eindhoven -NL -, Berlin, London, Barcelona and in project with Marrakech, plus various destination in Italy).

New tribunal:
http://www.enclave.it/foto/32-zoom.jpg

New bridge on the sea:
http://files.splinder.com/c110bf8225cf418a6776dd109d3b0e9a.jpeg
http://cdn.fotocommunity.com/Paesaggi/Laghi-e-fiumi/Ponte-nuovo-di-Pescara-a20320524.jpg

Public park after the valorization works:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Pescara_la_pineta_dannunzieana_02.JPG
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3361/3200946267_fefcc328d4.jpg?v=0

[Foxy]

http://khoahoc.com.vn/photos/Image/2007/01/29/Praha_dancing_house.jpg


I like it! It's fantastic! You have to own a great fantasy to realize such buildings.

[Autobahn]

http://jamestamp.com/normal_soviets.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:0Uel0FLOS2dsPM:http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-09/elephant-building-bangkok.jpg&t=1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BostonCityHall2.JPG/800px-BostonCityHall2.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Madrid_-_Torres_de_Col%C3%B3n_-_20071028a.jpg

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9888253.jpg

http://www.studio-international.co.uk/studio-images/gehry/disney_hall_5b.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CijcaA9yq58/ShtQaciraeI/AAAAAAAACVU/nda-aXfJoDw/s400/Swiss+Re+Building,+London.jpg

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:eCBKpJoPEUO4yM:http://xs124.xs.to/xs124/08055/436px-dom_sovetov420.jpg&t=1

http://b2cool.tripod.com/paris2001/ugly.jpg

http://www.h88.com.sg/images/content/2009-07-16/fu_lu_shou_building.jpg

[Tony]

Over the years I've learned that if you wanna find ugly/kitsch architecture you've gotta search for two main architectural styles: deconstructivism and brutalism , the latter is all dead now and it used to represent an attempt to improve the typical socialist way of building...
while commieblocks were mere big utilitarian concret boxes brutalism tried to embellish these with some sort of art by callin' in famous architectes but the result was almost never decent imho , they still remained too heavy.
The first style unfortunately is pretty alive and still contribute to make a landscape ugly and sometimes even to ruin a previosly well made urban corner with all their disordered structure.
Styles asides I've also noticed that the further away you go from Europe the more likely you'll find kitsch buildings , especially in Asia , very often they fail in giving architecture its true meaning , instead they mistake it for sculpture , so that's why you see buildings to bee too heavy and imitatin' animals , plants , flowers or otherwise you will see , again mostly in Asia , big concrete boxes split into two or three or with a piece of builind added because they think this mean originality , while instead the final result is ugly , deformed , out of proportion and disappointing to the eye.
Sometimes they resort to paint buildings in different colors so as to make 'em better (they assume...) but endin in , again , pure uglyness , even if this is a pattern that has also occured in Europe , especially in forme commie countries.

Grand Lisboa Hotel (Macao)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Macao_Grand_Lisboa200712.jpg/365px-Macao_Grand_Lisboa200712.jpg

Federation Square (Melbourne)
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p369568-Melbourne-Federation_square.jpg

An hotel in Tokyo...
http://img7.abload.de/img/457255622_4e76adee64_b55gd.jpg

an even uglier capsule hotel , in Tokio of course..
http://ssc.singapenguin.net/09/20090421_nakagin_capsule_tower_01.jpg

[Eldritch]

@ Autobahn:

The bullet/dildo thing is actually kinda cool, all the others are absolutely horrible, especially the first one. :eek:

[Loddfafner]

Here is a particularly brutal example of Philadelphia brutalism. This African American Museum is conveniently located across the street from the uncannily similar city prison:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/African_American_Museum_in_Phila.jpg

The inside consists mainly of wheelchair ramps separating confusing interactive machines and occasional examples of cheesy afrocentricity. If they have any genuine artifacts they do not dare display them.

[Falkata]

I hate this horrible monster skyscraper in my lovely island :mad:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OjPsJ_RQb8s/S6sp1kKVSDI/AAAAAAAAAbE/jwQm8NYwbBM/s1600/-isla-de-toralla_foto_6710ladkxyxwah.jpg
http://www.musicayvino.com/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/images/galiciatoralla.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://www.furrie.com/Vacation2003/June18/photos/Ugly%20house.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/504669778_67d6af22c8.jpg

http://www.countryjoycrafts.com/houses/RAINBOW%20house-1.jpg

http://thisfabtrek.com/journey/europe/ireland/dublin/new-ugly-house2-4.jpg

http://www.urbanthink.ca/images/ugly%20house%204.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//2/5Rietzangerstraat_11-169.JPG

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4473774748_c7afe318c0.jpg
In dire need of some dynamite. But regrettably quite common in my neighbourhood, town and country.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_JFxpMQOysTQ/SDxKzc5hRPI/AAAAAAAAApM/4wrYRSXqF9Y/IMG_5306.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Kruiskamp_Amersfoort.jpg

http://www.nrc.nl/multimedia/dynamic/00115/Kruiskamp2_115290e.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

And this too should be put on the list for immediate demolition (it's our local theatre):

http://207.44.228.232/photopost/data//2/5De_Flint.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/De_Flint_2_-_12_augustus_2009.JPG

http://www.refdag.nl/polopoly_fs/congrescentrum_de_flint_in_amersfoort_1_50818!imag e/1784970616.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_804/1784970616.jpg

(Location: in the old town !)

[Daos]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Kv%C3%A1r_Neol%C3%B3g_zsinag%C3%B3ga.jpg
Neologue Synagogue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca_Reformed_Synagogue)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Blocks_Cluj-Napoca.jpg/800px-Blocks_Cluj-Napoca.jpg
Typical commie shite

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Cladirea_biscuite_Cluj-Napoca.jpg/800px-Cladirea_biscuite_Cluj-Napoca.jpg
"The biscuit"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/BRD_Cluj.gif/420px-BRD_Cluj.gif
BRD tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRD_Tower_Cluj-Napoca)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4273941162_05bcd52be5_b.jpg
Central (a sort of shopping centre)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4219975176_86b27069ce_b.jpg
Railway station (ain't she a beaut?)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ro/b/bd/Palatul_administrativ.JPG
The Administrative Palace http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/wtf2.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ro/thumb/7/7e/BRD_Baia_Mare.jpg/800px-BRD_Baia_Mare.jpg
BRD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRD_%E2%80%93_Groupe_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_G%C3%A9n%C3 %A9rale) headquarters (I love banks...:rolleyes:)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Enter_in_the_city.jpg/800px-Enter_in_the_city.jpg
The "Crescent" (centre) and some other fugly commie buildings...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ro/2/27/Biblioteca_jud_2.jpg
The County Library (and they wonder why children don't read books any-more...:rolleyes:)

And there are plenty other buildings that should have never been erected...http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/n/no.gif

[Karl der Große]

'Worst building in the history of mankind'

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/09/07/717165/Ryugyong-Worst-Hotel-Korea-420x0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift-20090907-fdbs.html

[Vasconcelos]

Usually buildings with a Brutalist achitecture are just plain ugly.

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/10837949/2/istockphoto_10837949-park-hill-flats-sheffield-england-urban-brutalism-architecture.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/451545773_c8bd2bcc5b.jpg

http://www.conservapedia.com/images/e/e4/Salk_pool_Brutalism.gif

[The Lawspeaker]

A building called "De Stadshaard" in Enschede. Seriously: what the flying fuck has the architect been drinking, smoking, snorting or injecting ?

That's not a building --- that's a fucking atrocity !

http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/files/2010/08/lelijk-stadshaard.jpg

http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/files/2010/08/lelijk-stadshaard2.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

Another Dutch example of an architectural crime against humanity would be the AIVD (Dutch secret service) main office in Zoetermeer:

http://www.nederland-in-beeld.nl/Zuid-Holland/Zoetermeer/i/Zuid-Holland/Zoetermeer/Europaweg/foto.jpg

http://cdn.radionetherlands.nl/data/files/imagecache/must_carry/images/lead/AIVD_Zoetermeer.jpeg

http://static0.parool.nl/static/FOTO/pe/12/14/5/media_xl_390215.jpg?20101225164735

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/3616427353_4e09a11b39_z.jpg?zz=1

It used to be the office building of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences but they have long since moved to a new building in The Hague.

[askra]

Velasca Tower in Milan

http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/_ZF/images/mekinda1_0304.jpg

http://www.archivivi.it/images/torre_velasca_.jpg


Elephant Building (Thailand) :)

http://v6.cache2.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/31329181.jpg?redirect_counter=1


grand lisboa hotel (Macau)

http://www.free-slot-games.net/list%20casino/Macao%20Grand%20Lisboa.jpg

___

and the ugliest building in my town, the congress hall

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4544834079_7385df0f86_b.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wMmZSf58-NU/TSbyj0BnLYI/AAAAAAAAAN4/TFZRwexmvPs/s1600/Amazing+Pictures+strange+Buildings_domehouse-34.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wMmZSf58-NU/TSbyeqKELyI/AAAAAAAAANk/bw1gAzyykh8/s320/Amazing+Pictures+strange+Buildings_containercity-29.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wMmZSf58-NU/TSbyfTr2LRI/AAAAAAAAANo/cZlrkeWy7pg/s320/Amazing+Pictures+strange+Buildings_houseattack-30.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wMmZSf58-NU/TSbygihP5VI/AAAAAAAAANs/SzKt5d7twQY/s320/Amazing+Pictures+strange+Buildings_gangsterhouse31 .jpg

Source:http://amazingpictures-world.blogspot.com/2011/01/strange-buildings_3643.html

[Graham]

Colossal Bump!



ArcelorMittal Orbit

The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 115 metres (377 ft) high observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The steel sculpture is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is a permanent, lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympics,

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/7007119074_211da4fc42_z.jpghttp://www.sir-robert-mcalpine.com/files/project/41997/IMG_8320SRM___Main.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/7145962177_b93bd4f93f_b.jpg

Kill it!! Kill it with fire!!

[Peyrol]

http://static.tuttogratis.it/628X0/attualita/tuttogratis/it/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/torre-di-pisa.jpg

[Tony]

U have no taste Perdu...

[Peyrol]

U have no taste Perdu...

:D

Fascist futurist architecture is the best

http://www.bandb-rome.it/images/eur_palazzo_civilta_italiana_1.jpg

http://www.cylex.it/rev_images/news/pic_Roma-Fascista-Eur-3_828850_large.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kz08ihS4Koo/TGvzh8xnqcI/AAAAAAAAANs/TqJmqKDzAuY/s1600/Palazzo+Inps.jpg

http://www.livornotop.com/servizi/foto/foto%20angelica/palazzo-Governo.jpg

http://www.eurtorrinolive.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/60-museo-della-civilta-romana.jpg

http://www.museociviltaromana.it/var/museicivici/storage/images/musei/museo_della_civilta_romana/museo/storia_del_museo/mostra_augustea_della_romanita/67521-3-ita-IT/mostra_augustea_della_romanita_large.jpg

[Tony]

AHhhhh OMG, that's not futuristic architecture.

In Italy futurist architecture stayed merely on a bookish speculation level, only the communist countries they built something futuristics...

http://www.styleture.com/files/2011/06/scientific-institute.jpg

http://www.thecoolist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cosmic-Communist-Constructions-Photographed-by-Frederic-Chaubin-2.jpg

http://www.wallpaper.com/galleryimages/17052290/gallery/01_sovietbook_jp230111.jpg

the example u posted may be called neoclassicism, monumentalism and, more or less, modernism.

Futuristic architecture here had no luck at all.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg1qqkYStR1qazhil.jpg

http://www.historiasztuki.com.pl/images/SantElia-wiz1.jpg

[purple]

http://e-vestnik.bg/imgs/studentski_grad/stud_grad14.jpg

:p

[Tony]

^
a school example of how a ruined commieblok can get aesthetically improved with some truth put in it.

[Arne]

http://ksta.stadtmenschen.de/pics/module/userbilder/Fotoblog/kranhausnord_2f7jRrrrrr_bg2.jpg
http://architektur.mapolismagazin.com/sites/blog1b/files/styles/blog-post_page_full/public/kranhaeuser-2.jpg
http://architektur.mapolismagazin.com/sites/blog1b/files/styles/blog-post_page_full/public/kranhaeuser-3.jpg
http://architektur.mapolismagazin.com/sites/blog1b/files/styles/blog-post_page_full/public/kranhaeuser-4.jpg
http://architektur.mapolismagazin.com/sites/blog1b/files/styles/blog-post_page_full/public/kranhaeuser-5.jpg
http://img.fotocommunity.com/images/Koeln/Rheinauhafen/Kranhaeuser-Rheinauhafen-Koeln-a24344628.jpg

[Graham]

For some architects. A dream world would be a Jetson's world.

[Graham]

http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/files/2010/08/lelijk-stadshaard.jpg



Hahaha looks like tacky wallpaper or a vase. Hate it so much lol

[Damião de Góis]

The Lisbon mosque is a bit ugly to me. It may be modern but they could have done a better job if they were building it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Lisbon_Mosque.jpg

[Arne]

Ah, you people like mosquees
Can post some of them
looks like an atomic plant
one day will it meltdown like one ?..
Köln

Zunächst erhitzt er die Gemüter
Der Krampfer und der Meinungshüter,
Gießt in Beton Verfassungsgüter.
Noch wächst er fesch gen Jupüter,
Bald aber, Inscha Allah, glüht er:
In Ehrenfeld der Schnelle Brüter.

http://quotenqueen.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/moschee-ehrenfeld.jpg%3Fw%3D620
http://in2.bilderbuch-koeln.de/bilder/k%25C3%25B6ln_ehrenfeld_moschee_in_21aa322571_600x 450xcr.jpeg
http://amyklai.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/brueter.jpg
For People like these
http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBSQxqWlu3B1GuN&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi3.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Ff2G_FgKIiqA%2 Fhqdefault.jpg
Two Cops got stabbed on a Demonstration in Bonn where Muslims are a potential threat to the Western Hemisphere..
How to deal with them..
http://www.ffh.de/fileadmin/fm-dam/news/Salafisten_Pro_NRW_Krawalle_Bonn_Solingen.jpg
They might cried out loud "nazi nazi" which is the only word they seemingly were used to.

Hürth (near to Köln)
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/25329355.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Moschee_Huerth.jpg

[Edelmann]

I've seen a lot of absurdly plain looking churches like this in my area.

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/large/70619568.jpg

It kind of reminds me of H. L. Mencken's essay "The Libido for the Ugly":


On a Winter day some years ago, coming out of Pittsburgh on one of the expresses of the Pennsylvania Railroad, I rolled eastward for an hour through the coal and steel towns of Westmoreland county. It was familiar ground; boy and man, I had been through it often before. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth-and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination-and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.

I am not speaking of mere filth. One expects steel towns to be dirty. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye. Some were so bad, and they were among the most pretentious—churches, stores, warehouses, and the like–that they were downright startling; one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away. A few linger in memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church just west of Jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare, leprous hill; the headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. But most of all I recall the general effect–of hideousness without a break. There was not a single decent house within eyerange from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Greensburg yards. There was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby.