World's worst architecture.
 

You can post here pics of the ugliest contemporary architecture you can find... :)

I found these boring social houses in Loopealse, Lasnamäe, Tallinn. I really hate that building in the middle...

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/21403071.jpg
(Panoramio/Sergey Semakov)

I also hate big shopping centers, like this one:

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...um/9301483.jpg
(panoramio/GunZ)

Ohh, boy this will be an interesting thread :rolleyes:

1. Every Communist block on the face of the planet, I think i'll leave it at that:

http://i.imgur.com/in2xFNR.jpg

Michaeltotten.com

2. Madison Square Garden, this bastardized Colosseum is just plain disgusting. It's mere presence in the landscape of Manhattan is incredibly offensive. What makes it even more offensive is the fact it replaced something oh so beautiful:

http://i.imgur.com/WmP5W74.jpg

hauteliving.com

3. Every single bunker on the face of the earth, again i'll leave it at that:

http://i.imgur.com/RyfESWC.jpg

trekearth.com

Everything is awful
 

I love Madison Square Garden. Yes, I agree, it replaced something way better, but taken on it's own, it is a great piece of mid century architecture.

BAH! These threads usually turn into a "What I think is ugly" thread. With lots of people point and saying "HEY! I like that building"

This new Extron Electrons suburban office park building in Raleigh. The overall prison look of the building, the too small windows, the lack of scale, the blander than bland facade. Oh god kill it with fire.

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7...ybuilding1.png

Source: Google Maps

Not to slam on Boston, but Boston City Hall is simply atrocious.

Aaron (Glowrock)

Kaden bldg
Palace of the Soviets (Kaliningrad Oblast)
Elephant bldg, Bangkok
London Courthouse (London, Ontario).
Portland bldg, Portland, Ore
Guy's Hospital, London
Boston City hall
Žižkov Television Tower, Prague
Edificio Mirador, Spain
Most concrete commie blocks

I nominate the entire Walter Netsch-designed campus of the University Of Illinois at Chicago. While the campus has changed quite a bit since my days there, I remember UIC as a dismal, uninspiring, and occasionally dangerous place.

This New Orleans' edifice usually makes the list, and having seen it in person it is a wee beast.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Ljubljana.jpg

Trg Republike, Ljubljana, Slovenia

They're hideous, but interesting. You can't help but wonder why they look like that. I am pretty sure it was intentional. The clock on the right tower is really the cherry on the cake of bad architecture that is Trg Republike.

Hell, I remember seeing those monstrosities many years ago when I spent a few days in Ljubljana! :yes:

Aaron (Glowrock)

'The Lipstick' in Gothenburg, Sweden.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3387/4...bd377cd9_b.jpg
The buiding surnamed "The Lipstick" by Radu Bucuta, on Flickr

^

That's a new one, and an ugly one. It's a confused mess between 70's Brutalism, 80's PostModernism and the Queen Mary.

Wow Lipani, that one is almost unintelligibly bad.

Wow, that one truly is a horrendous disaster! :eek:

Aaron (Glowrock)

I like it. It's proportions are fine and it is colorful. Not bad. It's definitely just a matter of opinion. Commie blocks on the other hand are objectionally bad.

Cheap late 80s early 90s postmodernism is by far the worst architecture on the planet.

Dirty 70s blocks can be saved with new paint and windows (I've seen amazing examples of commieblock renovations) but there is no way to save those tacky hunks of pomo crap.

There was a thread similar to this a few years back which went on for 23 pages:

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...=151487&page=5

Some of the buildings on there are truly amazingly ugly.

I dunno, I think the World Financial Center looks pretty good.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8241/8...f3fb8c40_c.jpg
This is truly a revolting piece of garbage. The Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls.

my house.

Riverside Plaza, Minneapolis

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...side_Plaza.jpg

http://images.publicradio.org/conten...-plaza2_33.jpg

Pelli buildings and similar types are all good, but the cheap imitators with beige stone/green glass are always tacky and ghastly to look at.

I see crap like this every time I go on the highway.

Believe it or not, this would actually make for a moderatly good looking building in my town :(

I was waiting for the crack stacks of minneapolis to make a guest appearance.

^It was bound to happen.

The UK has just awarded the Carbuncle Cup 2014: Woolwich supermarket named 'worst building'.

I like the description: "oppressive, defensive, arrogant and inept." That's a stunning list of adjectives.

It also talks about the Walkie Talkie building that apparently might not have won this year only because it actually isn't finished yet.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3889/...98c170c1_o.jpg

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3901/...14bb5bb6_o.jpg

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3913/...60797588_b.jpg

:runaway:

"Carbuncle Cup":haha:

^Yep. A quality name for the award.

From Wikipedia: "A carbuncle (/ˈkɑːbʌŋkəl/ or /ˈkɑrbʌŋkəl/) is an abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin." Carbuncle

I don't see the images. :shrug:

That's funny, I can see them alright.

Doesn't this sort of thread normally settle on various forms of Brutalism countered by examples of suburban sprawl and garden-variety Post-Modernism? Usually that hotel in North Korea makes a guest appearance and those with finer palates get offended by the architectural boorishness of their SSP peers.

The Ryugyong has fallen from many of the 'ugly' lists now that the outside is completed.
Before:
http://www.outnext.com/.a/6a00d8341f...f448970c-800wi

Nowadays it has a gorgeous glass clad.
http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/...25/img/310.jpg

That's a better looking curtain-wall than we've been able to muster in Chicago for a long time.

I can now see the first and the last image and I must say that I absolutely love The Shard and Millenium Dome. Those are my favourite buildings in London.

Stalinist revisionism, pure and simple.

The poo brown Bloor-Dundas Square in West Toronto:

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/09...loorDundas.jpg

You've got to be kidding! This is one of the most beautiful towers in NFO. The rest of the towering crap that is present day NFO is what should be torn down - they make a joke of the beauty that is the falls. The Skylon Tower was especially beautiful when it was the only tower on the skyline.

Funny you what this graceful tower torn down, but don't mention the awful "Beefeaters" tower nearby.

I believe this was the inspiration for the CN Tower in Toronto. Surely, the CN Tower's architects ripped off the design of the Skylon for their tower.

But that's the whole point! Sure beats taking out the garbage...

The skylon tower is fugly. The fact that the rest of Niagara falls towers are also fugly does not make the skylon less fugly.

From where I currently live (London, Ontario). Brace yourself. It is Fugly. Reminds me of Snooki's face.

Truck-faced Lady:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...5/IMGP3194.jpg
segaert photobucket

With an equally-ugly profile:
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set199/card00601_fr.jpg
cardcow

You have to admit it is kind of cool how they softened the lines with that greenery at the bottom. Sometimes I think the only cure for Brutalism is a good climbing vine, preferably something that flowers.

The Skylon tower has potential to not be terrible, it just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

The Chinese cyber war building in Shanghai is pretty depressing.

http://jafrianews.files.wordpress.co...n-shanghai.jpg
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax/files...80a6b5efa3.png
http://jafrianews.files.wordpress.co...n-shanghai.jpg

haha yeah me too, but at least it's dramatic coming into the city from the airport and at least it's colorfully brutal, unlike all the rest of that kind of stuff that is usually oppressively gray. i can't believe i am standing up for it a little bit here :haha:, but only because there is so much bleakness in the world of public housing. :yes:

One of the worst in Toronto:
44 Charles Street West - Manulife Centre
http://www.tobuilt.ca/php/Buildingim...Centre44-1.jpg
Photo found on: tobuilt.ca

And the Leaside Towers
http://www.emporis.com/images/show/204306-Large.jpg
Photo from Emporis

390 Bay Street and Thompson Building
http://www.emporis.com/images/show/172143-Large.jpg
Photo from Emporis
Replaced the Temple Building (Tallest in picture other than Old City Hall)
http://torontoist.com/attachments/to...nBayStreet.jpg
Toronto's First Skyscraper
Photo from Torontoist.com article, most likely can be found in the city archives.

Really, I don't understand how they managed to make it worse than when it was incomplete. That cladding is just a hideous shade of 90s office tower blue with lame clashing white. :yuck:

I like it. Charmingly ugly and unique.

Here's a peace offering to everyone:
The Rooms
http://www.cruisetheedge.com/wp-cont...-the-rooms.jpg