What's the most shameful monstrosity ever built in your city?

[vid]

^I like it. :)

[secondson]

I think Habitat 67 is rather nice looking. I love intricate structures where you are left wondering what new and interesting feature is around the corner.

[rockyi]

^First post, huh?
Welcome to SSP. :)

[Lecom]

http://www.b12partners.net/mt/images/Sun_Times-1-tm.jpg

The new Chicago Sun-Times building. It occupies a prominent site next to the Merchandise Mart and is hideously ugly. It used to not even have any windows, but they added them in when Trump started demoing the old Sun-Times building for Trump Tower. A fake building for a fake newspaper!
Does the owner of Sun-Times have a shitty building fetish? First the lowrise POS, then this.

[secondson]

^^Thanks!

Yeah, I came across this site a while back and thought maybe it was time to mingle a bit.

[Wheelingman04]

The Sun-Times does like crappy buildings. The Tribune has a gorgeous gothic tower.

[Exodus]

hey, i like empire center.

wanna see ugly? how 'bout this monstrosity smiling at you everyday as you commute into town?

http://www.pbase.com/mancusoj/image/24485229.jpg
mercer tower 1

a twin is supposed to be built eventually.Whoa ! Looks like a 30 storie jail. WTF were they thinking of ?:yuck:

[gradvmedusa]

Saskatoons best example. Sturdy Stone Centre. There is parking above the ground floor 3-4 levels. Then offices above.

http://www.westerntour.com/Saskatoon/Stmodbld.jpg

Looks like a mini version of the Contemporary Hotel at Disney World
http://images.octopustravel.com/HH/Images/US/ORL/ORLDIS31.jpg

[Monetto]

Everybody, please step aside. I'm actually surprised Toronto forumers have not already posted this.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/mihaitza/Picture874.jpg

Robarts Library, demolished an entire city block of victorian houses, hated by 50,000 people on a daily basis.

[trvlr70]

Would someone please post Chicago's Marriott on Michigan Avenue. It is an architectural abomination in my opinion.

[Dalreg]

Looks like a mini version of the Contemporary Hotel at Disney World
http://images.octopustravel.com/HH/Images/US/ORL/ORLDIS31.jpg

This doesn't look that bad as a resort hotel but would you want it in your downtown as an office building?

[rockyi]

Would someone please post Chicago's Marriott on Michigan Avenue. It is an architectural abomination in my opinion.

He he. I stayed at that Marriott a couple of times and yes it is blah.

[shappy]

Everybody, please step aside. I'm actually surprised Toronto forumers have not already posted this.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/mihaitza/Picture874.jpg

Robarts Library, demolished an entire city block of victorian houses, hated by 50,000 people on a daily basis.

there are elements of that building I like. At least some thought was put into the design. I think therefore it can be somewhat appreciated. The fact that it looks like a turkey or a goose or whatever is just wacky enough to make me miss it if it was gone tomorrow. The interior is quite a nightmare though.

This one is worse, in my opinion... it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/mark3333/ugly.jpg

[rockyi]

^ Good Lord! Someone actually paid an architect to design that.
It looks like a building coming out of another building.

[Monetto]

:haha: :haha: :haha:
Swept me aside w. one move

[malek]

habitat looks awesome in person, more at night, where you see lights coming out and people in them doing their thing :)

in Montreal it has to be SILO #5

Massive abandonned grain silo... ........ugh

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/517/img5959gr8.jpg

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1489/unseensilo5bypathethicsn9.jpg

[JManc]

well, that silo wasn't meant to have aesthetic value and the gritty rundown-ness of it is kinda cool.

the building shappy posted (the ugly building spawning an even uglier building) is beyond poor taste. LOL

[CGII]

Shappy for the win. That's the shittiest building I've ever seen. And that grain silo is fucking awesome. I'd love to have one that big in the valley over here in MKE.

[shappy]

hooray!! Leave it to Toronto to garner recognition in a category like this! :D

[entheosfog]

I have to throw this one in from Calgary's downtown:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/2006_1018Image0101.jpg

[cur_sed]

I feel a little ashamed to be enjoying this thread so much :P
It's like watching a whole series of car crashes. Sucks for the cities being blighted, though.

[MolsonExport]

habitat looks awesome in person, more at night, where you see lights coming out and people in them doing their thing :)

in Montreal it has to be SILO #5

Massive abandonned grain silo... ........ugh



http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1489/unseensilo5bypathethicsn9.jpg

That is an awesome picture! Memories of "Blade Runner".

[cth0511]

They haven't built it yet (and hopefully never will), but Museum Plaza in Louisville is pretty bad. :yuck:

[CGII]

I have to throw this one in from Calgary's downtown:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/2006_1018Image0101.jpg
That's pretty common. I can think of a dozen examples around Milwaukee where an old facade was covered up in the 60s.

[Mister F]

We have a winner! So bad it's worth posting again:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/mark3333/ugly.jpg

Here's a better pic of the Nightmare on Elm St (77 Elm):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/brighterhell/Toronto/166246.jpg

Brutalism may not be to some people's taste, but I like it in small doses.

[Sirus]

I have to throw this one in from Calgary's downtown:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/2006_1018Image0101.jpg

I could see this building showing up in a TV show or movie. It's bad, but in a good way imo.

[SD_Phil]

As a piece of architectural history it might have *some* limited importance but that garish addition of "VIDEO WORLD" hurts my eyes!

[boden]

Here's one in Belleville, Ontario that wouldn't win a beauty prize.
http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/12146503/original.jpg

[entheosfog]

I could see this building showing up in a TV show or movie. It's bad, but in a good way imo.

I especially like the wavy overhang on the thing.

The building has actually grown on me because it stands out so much and so many people probably dislike it, much like this building, again, from Calgary, which I like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/CBE.jpg

[rockyi]

I saw this little beast while walking around Boston last year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/007_7.jpg

[CGII]

^wtf mates?

[Stephenapolis]

/\ Can do!!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/SRieder/cedar_riverside.jpg

There's honestly buildings I hate more than this complex though.
I have always had a wamr spot in my heart for this complex. I still think it is too bad they never built the whole complex either. It was supposed to have at least twice as many buildings, Including a few taller than the tallest in this group.

[CGII]

I have always had a wamr spot in my heart for this complex. I still think it is too bad they never built the whole complex either. It was supposed to have at least twice as many buildings, Including a few taller than the tallest in this group.
Now, that would be overdoing it, if you ask me.

[Stephenapolis]

You are right about the Minneapolis complex...Mary Tyler Moore did live there!! It was built as a mixed development and then tended to become more geared toward lower income people and now is a huge mecca for immigrants.

On a side note...the architect behind the complex is Ralph Rapson, who is still alive today (age 92 and still practicing), is the chair of the Architecture Department at University of Minnesota and has the Architecture school named for him. ;)

He did design the original Guthrie Theatre:
http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf014/pf014352.jpg
Which is being torn down soon to expand the sculpture gardens...
Just to let eveyone know. The Old Guthrie has not looked like this in nearly 40 years. Parts of teh facade weathered very poorly and much of it was removed. If you saw it today, you would not even recognize it compared to this photo.

[Coyett]

http://www.pbase.com/mcc2000/image/39978731.jpg

I really don't understand how people could consider this a monstrosity. I guess we'll have to wait another generation before these buildings get the respect they so justly deserve.

[initiald]

I happened across this odd fellow walking from Tokyo Tower to Roppongi.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/957/1001400op1.jpg

[Monetto]

This one is worse, in my opinion... it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/mark3333/ugly.jpg

I vote for Shappy as well. Its like an ugly stick coming out of a pile of crap.

That Tokyo thing is kinda cool. The massing is absolutely hideous, but I like the texture.

[xzmattzx]

I'm not really a fan of the Citizens Bank Center in downtown Wilmington.

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2004/04/260888.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2004/04/260889.jpg

[Distill3d]

Here's one in Belleville, Ontario that wouldn't win a beauty prize.
http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/12146503/original.jpg


if this was taller i think it would be a much nicer building, however i would so rather that then our school board building here in Calgary (posted by entheosfog).

[DMAG]

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1489/unseensilo5bypathethicsn9.jpg

Awesome picture! My new desktop!

[Sirus]

I happened across this odd fellow walking from Tokyo Tower to Roppongi.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/957/1001400op1.jpg


That's a sweet building. The base of it makes for an odd combination, but cool none the less.

[rockyi]

Maybe not quite the ugliest building around, but this yawn inducing giant shoebox sits on a prominent location right on Rock Islands riverfront.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/f1183f57.jpg

[JManc]

LOL, that pimped out caprice is worse than the building.

shappy's was so bad...it made a purdy avatar.

[rockyi]

LOL, that pimped out caprice is worse than the building.


That's what I thought as I was taking the picture. :haha: It had a really bad airbrushed eagle on the trunk lid, too.

[the urban politician]

Awesome picture! My new desktop!

^ Mine too :D

BTW, some of the buildings being posted lately don't seem in my mind to be the 'most shameful monstrosity' in your city, unless your cities are that unbelievably gorgeous. Like this one below, for example--certainly there are uglier buildings in town than this:

http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/12146503/original.jpg

[Upward]

I actually think a fair portion of the buildings shown here are pretty cool :jester:

The worst has to be that residential tower in Houston. It's pretty new, right? Unlike bad 70s brutalism, we can't even excuse it for espousing a certain design philosphy that was popular at the time. It looks like something that was thrown together quickly and cheaply. I can't imagine why they would want to put so few windows on it.

[Wooster]

Here is a real charmer in nearby Kingston, Ontario.
http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/58353315/original.jpg

Princess towers is a legend. This building is so ugly it is almost great. Almost everything about it is wrong other than the fact that it has some retail at the base.

[gradvmedusa]

Correction it's the AT&T building not the verizon building, it's on 10th avenue, the entire block between 53rd and 54th streets. This whole area is gentrifying really fast and this thing is in the way. http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/westport/att_center_tenth_avenue_11jan03.jpg

[JimInCal]

Patriot's Square Park near the 0,0 point in Phoenix is a brick oven in the summer and an outdoor toilet for transients. :slob: Its futuristic design in the 1980's was cool for about 5 minutes. It is now thankfully going to be leveled and incorporated into a 1 billion $, three-block development called Cityscape, still as park space. It is a point of controversy locally, mostly between the architect who designed it and the rest of us who loathe it. It is surrounded by some beautiful historic buildings like the Luhrs Tower and old Phoenix City hall. These deserve something better, a park that hi-lites them instead of insults them.

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/2228/pspark1gd0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/7007/patriopkek9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[widedetox]

http://members.shaw.ca/widedetox/cntower2.jpg

I've had several people tell me that this (the CN tower) in Edmonton is on of the ugliest buildings in the city. I personally never took the time to look at it (and still have not) but lets put it up for nomination anyway.

[SapphireBlueEyes]

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/mies/iit_1.jpg


Usually 'anything' designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Illinois
Institute of Technology,
Chicago, 1945-1960
photo by William Nowak, '99

I say the wrecking ball was late the day after this puke was opened!

[the urban politician]

^ Wow, you're that guy who started the "I hate Mies" or whatever thread.

I am in awe of you. You are quite a quirk of nature indeed. ;)

[SapphireBlueEyes]

Hmm, should I take that as a compliment? I do take it as a compliment, regardless! ChicagoShawn is going to beat me when he sees that pic post, someone save me, save me!! He adores Mies, the poor chap loves things that look as though they were designed by the Grim Reaper himself, could Mies be the Grim Reaper?

^ Wow, you're that guy who started the "I hate Mies" or whatever thread.

I am in awe of you. You are quite a quirk of nature indeed. ;)

[CGII]

Wouldn't you think slaughterhouses to be designed by the Grim Reaper? I mean, calling Mies the Grim Reaper isn't very fitting, even for an insult.

[MolsonExport]

One building that has always blown me away with its pure nastiness is the provincial courthouse in London, Ontario
http://www.jmclawyers.ca/images/jmc-courthouse.gif

http://www.scholarsresource.com/images/thumbnails/192/a/aca0763.jpg


Vile, vile indeed. I feel like vomiting when I see this exemplar of ugliness.

[bryson662001]

Here's a contender......it's the federal courthouse in Philly. A few years ago the bricks were falling off so the GSA spent gazillions to strip the entire facade and put up new bricks....one by one....exactly the way they were before. That is also when they added the limestone trim (someone thought it might help but it only made things worse). That thing in the front that looks like a brick beach house (2nd picture) is the new visitor's center for the Independence National Park. It's pretty ugly too. Talk about fashion victims.



http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k50/bryson662001/court2.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k50/bryson662001/court1.jpg

[Avian001]

I'm loving this thread too!

I had to comment on this from page 3:

Plaza Tower-New Orleans:

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/1825/375426769sx.jpg



It was designed by a student of Frank Loyd Wright's, which makes everyone think its cool. I absolutely loathe that building and think it looks like an ugly air traffic control tower...



It's worse than a control tower. It's more like a...

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8159/dachautowerqh5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Distill3d]

http://members.shaw.ca/widedetox/cntower2.jpg

I've had several people tell me that this (the CN tower) in Edmonton is on of the ugliest buildings in the city. I personally never took the time to look at it (and still have not) but lets put it up for nomination anyway.


see it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so out of place. theres not much as far as tall buildings along 104 Avenue. and the CN Tower just sorta sits there so that it has to be looked at.

i used to walk close to it everyday/nite to and from work, and yeah, it is an ugly building. i do note though, the sign on the top is unique in its own sense. it kinda has that nostalgic late 1960's Trudeaumania Canada feel to it.

[kenratboy]

WOW! Cool thread, I actually like some of the buildings here, but only in a older, urban setting.

[Alxx611]

I'm loving this thread too!

I had to comment on this from page 3:




It's worse than a control tower. It's more like a...

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8159/dachautowerqh5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


well the main thing that really bothers me about it is how its off to the side by itself in the skyline. You have the N.O skyline, the Superdome, and then the Plaza tower edged just past that:

http://www.white-mountain.org/CaliTrip/images/1999_02_13/NewOrleans2.jpg

[bnk]

For Fargo, it would be the Central Post Office.

(It's the brown and white piece of dog shit across the street in the middle of the pic):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/SmileyBoy/IMG_0157.jpg

This is the kind of building that can frighten little children and pregnant mothers.

I guess "decent" brutalist modernism just skipped Fargo completely in the 60's and went directly up to Winnipeg.

Boy that is bad. I wonder what the architect was thinking and what school of though lead to this kind of monstrosity. I have seen these types of buildings before and shudder greatly in there presence. By what name and what era are these things by definition?

[willcrazyiii]

/\ Can do!!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/SRieder/cedar_riverside.jpg

There's honestly buildings I hate more than this complex though.

Oh god that's just pathetic... especially when the rest of Minneapolis's skyline is so beautiful.

[Dalreg]

http://members.shaw.ca/widedetox/cntower2.jpg

I've had several people tell me that this (the CN tower) in Edmonton is on of the ugliest buildings in the city. I personally never took the time to look at it (and still have not) but lets put it up for nomination anyway.

We have your little brother here in Saskatoon.

http://www.downtownsaskatoon.com/images/shop_pic.jpg

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/stoon100pics/photogallery/images/jb19thStreet3.jpg

[Coldrsx]

http://members.shaw.ca/widedetox/cntower2.jpg

I've had several people tell me that this (the CN tower) in Edmonton is on of the ugliest buildings in the city. I personally never took the time to look at it (and still have not) but lets put it up for nomination anyway.


personally i love it

[salvius]

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/mies/iit_1.jpg


Usually 'anything' designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Illinois
Institute of Technology,
Chicago, 1945-1960
photo by William Nowak, '99

I say the wrecking ball was late the day after this puke was opened!

Absolutely beautiful. I guess there's still Philistines among us.

Some very interesting choices as a whole... Although a lot of what is posted is pure junk, there are some great pieces of architecture posted as well...

[LeeWilson]

I've never liked this building: The Japan Times Nifco Building in Tokyo.

http://www.vgfun.net/lee/misc_images/japantimesnifco.jpg

[SapphireBlueEyes]

A Philistine? Please!!

David v. Goliath?

Goliath was a Philistine!!

David was a little boy with a slingshot who brought down the mighty Philistine!!

I'm like David who brought down the mighty Philistine [Mies].

Suburban office parks are too beautiful [sarcasm] for Mies JUNK, let alone cities like Chicago.

Whenever I can, I'll take my mighty slingshot and sling stones [verbally, orally] whenever I can at those ugly Philistine designs!

Absolutely beautiful. I guess there's still Philistines among us.

Some very interesting choices as a whole... Although a lot of what is posted is pure junk, there are some great pieces of architecture posted as well...

[MolsonExport]

Another pair of uglies from Montreal: The white structure (the Hall or 'Hell' building) and the pink structure (the Webster Library), both of Concordia University.
http://img.search.com/3/3b/300px-Concordia.jpg

[ariesjow]

For Ann Arbor, my pick is Tower Plaza. It's actually the city's tallest. It's being recladded now with more modern green glass.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i188/ariesjow/Places/IMG_0059.jpg

[DecoJim]

For Ann Arbor, my pick is Tower Plaza. It's actually the city's tallest. It's being recladded now with more modern green glass.

Did that building (or was it the 19 story University Towers) result in an Ann Arbor ordinance placing a height restriction on any new buildings?

While it it not the ugliest high-rise that I have seen, it is totally out of scale with the nearby three story buildings and houses.

[FrancoRey]

:previous: Such is the beauty of the "urbanization" movement of the 60's and 70's. Screw old houses and quaint neighborhoods, let's bulldoze shit and put up some international-style highrises in the middle of a suburb! Nothing's more attractive than a 25-story commie tower in the middle of a 30 or more year-old subdivision! Denver has plenty of these...unfortunately I have no pics.

[FrancoRey]

Oh and BTW, that Plaza Tower in New Oreleans is hideous :yuck: . I never thought I could advocate so willingly for something's immenent distruction. Not to push buttons, but that's something Katrina shouldn't have left standing.

[Midwesterner]

http://www.pbase.com/mcc2000/image/39978731.jpg

I really don't understand how people could consider this a monstrosity. I guess we'll have to wait another generation before these buildings get the respect they so justly deserve.
If you read my post:

[quote]It's your typical 60's modernist building, but it resulted in the demolition of this:
http://www.helloindianapolis.com/indianapolis/images/Marion%20County%20Court%20House%201907.jpg

I don't think that the City-County Building is as bad as some of the other buildings in the thread (though the base is god awful), however the fact that destroyed one of the most gorgeous buildings in Indianapolis doesn't helped it's cause.

Besides, do you think One Liberty Plaza in NYC gets the respect it justly deserves, considering the fact it resulted in the demolition in the Singer Building?

[boden]

^ Mine too :D

BTW, some of the buildings being posted lately don't seem in my mind to be the 'most shameful monstrosity' in your city, unless your cities are that unbelievably gorgeous. Like this one below, for example--certainly there are uglier buildings in town than this:

http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/12146503/original.jpg

Not in my opinion. Maybe from the angle that I took the shot it looks ok, but believe me, live and up close, she's a monster from the 70's.

[Wheelingman04]

Wheeling, WV city building.
http://www.cityofwheelingwv.org/images/citybld1a.jpg

[salvius]

A Philistine? Please!!

David v. Goliath?

Goliath was a Philistine!!

David was a little boy with a slingshot who brought down the mighty Philistine!!

I'm like David who brought down the mighty Philistine [Mies].

Suburban office parks are too beautiful [sarcasm] for Mies JUNK, let alone cities like Chicago.

Whenever I can, I'll take my mighty slingshot and sling stones [verbally, orally] whenever I can at those ugly Philistine designs!

Thankfully, it is only verbally and orally; it's people without the slightest bit of taste --such as yourself, actually-- that managed to erase large swaths of Victorian architecture in our cities, and are now trying to do the same to some of the modernist wonders. Every generation thinks it knows better, I guess.

[represent916]

/\ Can do!!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/SRieder/cedar_riverside.jpg

There's honestly buildings I hate more than this complex though.

You won. i looked through most of these. these are the ugliest peices of shit ever to be built

[choyak1]

I will nominate this ugly ass Verizon building from my hometown Wausau, WI. Only the top floor has windows!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/choyak/DSCN1115.jpg

The complex in Albany looks pretty cool, though!!! Looks like alot of people are there???

[rockyi]

^Wow!....that's just soooo.......damn!
What I want to know is, who approves the plans for some of these?

[oak-sea]

In Seattle most people would say that fiberglass building with the hexangonal windows, AKA King County Admin Building...
http://homepage.mac.com/ragsdalejames/KingCountyAdmin.jpg
However, I like it. A new thread needs to be started called the buildings most people find hideous that are actually gems before their time.

[Wheelingman04]

^ That building makes me want to puke.:yuck:

[olga]

I love ugly buildings-threads! It's always such a great mix of cool buildings I like and truly ugly stuff.

[secondson]

In Seattle most people would say that fiberglass building with the hexangonal windows, AKA King County Admin Building...
http://homepage.mac.com/ragsdalejames/KingCountyAdmin.jpg
However, I like it. A new thread needs to be started called the buildings most people find hideous that are actually gems before their time.

Oh man, it looks like someone was dropping some acid when they designed that place. :haha:

[toddguy]

I think that is the worst use of those 'diagrid' things that I have ever seen.

*edit* Is there or has there been a thread featuring buildings with these 'Diagrids'/crossbracing? Something like a best and worst or something?

[RockMont]

Let's see someone beat THIS!

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4194/aerialespqg1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Some of these are so outrageous, they're actually quite pretty. I like this one in Albany.

[Wheelingman04]

This one takes the cake as the ugliest. It literally makes me sick to even look at this photo.
http://homepage.mac.com/ragsdalejames/KingCountyAdmin.jpg

[JManc]

^ ooh, that's pretty bad. gives that building in toronto a run for its money. kinda like a shorter version of this masterpiece:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/kaden/whole3.jpg

[Distill3d]

^thats nasty!!! why in the love of all that is good and pure would you build such an ugly monster?

i think honestly, that the city planners who approved some of these buildings should be round up on an island somewhere and shot.

[boden]

I don't live in NY, but here is a building in the Bronx

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/forgottenblog/uglybuildingcopy.jpg

[The_Analyst]

^ ooh, that's pretty bad. gives that building in toronto a run for its money. kinda like a shorter version of this masterpiece:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/kaden/whole3.jpg

This one is so bad it made me smile. It reminds me of my grandma's knitting bag.:haha:

[muppet]

The Tower Thistle Hotel, sandwiched delightfully between two World Heritage sites, its right next door to both the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

looks not THAT bad right?
http://image.pegs.com/images/TI/07958/07958_b1a.jpg

but on closer inspection....
http://en.structurae.de/files/photos/111/2003-06-12-london-thistle-hotel-tower.jpg
AAAGH!!!


a view straight off the bridge
http://www.cabe.org.uk/assetlibrary/8388.jpg

Can you believe its a *5 hotel - but purely for the location. Inside is just as wristslittingly dated as the outside.

[secondson]

^ ooh, that's pretty bad. gives that building in toronto a run for its money. kinda like a shorter version of this masterpiece:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/kaden/whole3.jpg

I'm totally speechless. That's just sad. It is, hands down, the worst of anything I've seen so far in this thread. I HATE circular patterns like that. :yuck:

[shadowbat]

I remember a parking garage in Dallas with a similar facade, but with gold rings. It became abandoned and scrappers started stealing the rings, rolling down the street LOL!

[toddguy]

Ugliest building ever in the history of the world IMO. What was to be the headquarters of the communist party in Kaliningrad Russia. Was not even occupied since it was built over the ruins of the old Konigsberg Castle, and the foundation was really a warren of old below level rooms and corridors so the building was structurally unsound. Was never even used and yet it there it still stands in all it's hideous glory.:yuck:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k40/toddguy/kaliningradsoviets.jpg

[Paintballer1708]

^ Is that located in Central Russia. Im not a big fan of the communist architecture.

[TheMeltyMan]

Nah, Kaliningrad is the little Satellite district thats disconnected from Russia proper. Along the Baltic Sea. They should just give Kaliningrad to Poland or something just to get rid of that thing.

[combusean]

Towering over the rubble of some of the last brick-built, 0'-setback active retail in Phoenix.

http://emvis.net/~sean/gallery2/d/3437-2/003_asu_rubble.jpg

Any one of the parking garages, government buildings, the Viad Tower in Midtown. I'll have to do a thread soon, because there's literally just so much shit in this city.

This building I believe is the tallest in Tempe, to be eclipsed in 2008, but not soon enough.

http://emvis.net/~sean/gallery2/d/1173-2/IM000243.JPG

Manzanita Hall. Its elevators should be a ride at Six Flags. It is by far the worst example of all the buildings at ASU, ninety percent of which need to be demolished.

[olga]

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/kaden/whole3.jpg
^ Oh, I remember that piece of crap. I voted for it in the old The World's Ugliest Building (or whatever it was called)-thread.

[rockyi]

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kentucky/louisville/kaden/whole3.jpg

Wow! If anyone here has ever seen an "I Dream Of Jeannie" rerun, this thing reminds me of the inside of her genie bottle.

[Alargule]

In Amsterdam: definitely the 'Maupoleum', built in the 1970's and torn down less than 10 years after its completion. A huge, concrete 'commie-block' if you will, built in the heart of the historic center:

http://www.amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/binnenstad/199/kanjers.jpg