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Old Posted Mar 26, 2019, 1:47 PM
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How about the Denver Public library?



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Everything that was bad with that era of post-modernism. Just so terrible.
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Everything that was bad with that era of post-modernism. Just so terrible.
Yeah, personally I think Houston’s Federal Bank Building is much worse (same architect).

http://www.payneandladner.com/?proje...e-bank-houston


https://h-town-visually.blogspot.com...lities-in.html

It looks like it was built in Minecraft!

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I'll see your Wroclaw Sky Tower and raise you a Kunsthaus Graz:


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This is basically the architectural equivalent of this. Seriously.
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This is basically the architectural equivalent of this. Seriously.
, looks like a giant tumour.
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I'll see your Wroclaw Sky Tower and raise you a Kunsthaus Graz:


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This is basically the architectural equivalent of this. Seriously.
I can see why it is so polarizing but I actually really like Kunsthaus + Graz. A great example of organic architecture.
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Yeah, personally I think Houston’s Federal Bank Building is much worse (same architect).

http://www.payneandladner.com/?proje...e-bank-houston


https://h-town-visually.blogspot.com...lities-in.html

It looks like it was built in Minecraft!
It also looks like Simpsons animation come to life. WTF is with the blue lines between the 'bricks'?! It's a mockery of architecture.
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Tel Alviv's candidate for Clockzilla's next battle. The Isrotel. Believe it or not this building is actually finished.

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That is one of the worst I have ever seen. It looks like a sea cucumber meets vibrator meets tentacle monster meets cheese grater jail.
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The architectural version of vomit, my stomach turns whenever I see that building.
I can't wait for the "random fenestration/pattern" trend to finally die.
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The IM Pei addition to the Lamar Building in Augusta GA qualifies this one as ugly:

From the Augusta Daily Journal
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The IM Pei addition to the Lamar Building in Augusta GA qualifies this one as ugly:

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Wow. That is beyond words. They turned a beautiful historic building into a circumcised penis. W-T-F?!?
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Tokyo’s M2 Building. It’s almost miraculous how hideous it is.

https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/10977592821382964/

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there's gaudy-ugly.

and then there's boring-is-that-the-best-you-could-design ugly.

the UTS Tower in Sydney:



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I don't know what Austin did to deserve this proposed high-rise.

but shame on Austin for whatever you did!!!!




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I don't know what Austin did to deserve this proposed high-rise.

but shame on Austin for whatever you did!!!!




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Gack, its like a more modern version of this monstrosity in Los Angeles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1100_Wilshire


https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...7_M27155-27183
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The Luxor Hotel in Bulgaria.

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That's so bad it's good.
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