The Ugly Buildings Thread

[Graham]

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.

[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.

For People like these

Two Cops got stabbed on a Demonstration in Bonn where Muslims are a potential threat to the Western Hemisphere..
How to deal with them..

They might cried out loud "nazi nazi" which is the only word they seemingly were used to.

Hürth (near to Köln)

[Edelmann]

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



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.