What's the most shameful monstrosity ever built in your city? - Page 9

bnk · #**161** Posted **Nov 14, 2006, 4:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by SmileyBoy

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):

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 · #**162** Posted **Nov 15, 2006, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sirus

/\ Can do!!

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 · #**163** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 1:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by widedetox

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.

Coldrsx · #**164** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 2:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by widedetox

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 · #**165** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by sapphireblueeyes

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 · #**166** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 7:55 AM**

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

SapphireBlueEyes · #**167** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 8:25 AM**

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!

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Originally Posted by salvius

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 · #**168** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 2:58 PM**

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.

ariesjow · #**169** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 5:15 PM**

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.

DecoJim · #**170** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · #**171** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 9:36 PM**

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 · #**172** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 9:39 PM**

Oh and BTW, that Plaza Tower in New Oreleans is hideous

. 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 · #**173** Posted **Nov 16, 2006, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by taiwan ren

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:

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 · #**174** Posted **Nov 17, 2006, 1:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by the urban politician

^ Mine too

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:

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 · #**175** Posted **Nov 18, 2006, 6:53 AM**

Wheeling, WV city building.

salvius · #**176** Posted **Nov 18, 2006, 7:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by 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!

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 · #**177** Posted **Nov 19, 2006, 7:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sirus

/\ Can do!!

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 · #**178** Posted **Nov 19, 2006, 10:40 PM**

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

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

rockyi · #**179** Posted **Nov 19, 2006, 11:10 PM**

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

oak-sea · #**180** Posted **Nov 20, 2006, 6:10 AM**

In Seattle most people would say that fiberglass building with the hexangonal windows, AKA King County Admin Building...

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.