The World's Ugliest Buildings

[Tee Kay]

Apartments in Hong Kong

Now, I know they don't have a lot of land to build stuff on, but still, these are horrible.

 

[Phlegmak]

These are ugly buildings:

http://images.google.com/images?q=slums&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

 

[Kyriakos]

Interesting. In a living-as-an-ant way.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I don't see any ugly buildings in this thread yet, so I will post one:

It looks like an ICBM thinly disguised as a sightseeing/cell phone tower.

They built this monstronsity in downtown Manhattan back in the 60s to help protect the mainframes from inevitable terrorist attacks.

 

[Winner]

I don't see anything wrong with these buildings... can you elaborate on why you think they are ugly and what their function was? If they're apartments, then they certainly aren't very attractive, but they're not bad as far as office buildings go.

They're office buildings. I find them ugly (take a closer look, it's typical cheap stuff the commies liked to build), so if you don't then you have different perception of aesthetics, I guess.

 

[Gelion]

As far as the exteriors go, they look pretty similar to any American office park built in the late 60s-70s.

You don't get it.

It was built by communists.

 

[nonconformist]

My uni library

 

[Joecoolyo]

Not a good color.

What, what's wrong with this building? The color is what makes it great


Now this building I hate (or you can say is ugly when put with the rest of the city's skyline)

You know, because a 2,000 foot monster of a building would look great when plopped in the middle of nowhere.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I have absolutely no idea why they built the Science Wing and Humanities Wing to look like a fortified bunker at my university.

 

[Princeps]

They built this monstronsity in downtown Manhattan back in the 60s to help protect the mainframes from inevitable terrorist attacks.

That looks kind of cool. Certainly it provides a little variation to the glass tower theme. Personally, I would have put something to decorate all those empty areas.

 

[aelf]

A fish-lion? Who would think of such an idiotic hybrid...

People keen on creating a tourist trap and a rather forced national icon.

The Merlion Malay: Singa-Laut; is an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name combines "mer" meaning the sea and "lion". The fish body comes from Singapore's ancient name back when it was a fishing village — Temasek — meaning "sea town" in Javanese. The lion head represents Singapore's original name — Singapura — meaning "lion city" or "kota singa" .The symbol was designed by Mr Fraser Brunner, a member of the Souvenir Committee and curator of the Van Kleef Aquarium, for the logo of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) in use from 26 March 1964 to 1997.[1] The Merlion continues to be its trademark symbol since 20 July 1966. Although the STB changed their logo in 1997, the STB Act continues to protect the Merlion symbol.[2] Approval must be received from STB before it can be used. The Merlion appears frequently in STB-approved souvenirs.

 

[sonorakitch]

I actually think many of the buildings on here are quite nice.

Here is the Dhaka Parlimentary Building. Some think it is inspirational; I think it is crap. Pictures don't do it justice; you have to see this place. The cast-in-place concrete has actually been scored from the high levels of pollution, and the color has transformed from a natural grey to a charcoal hue. Really ugly...not to mention it smells too. Any building that is ugly and smells has to be bad.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=235662&stc=1&d=1259453352

 

[Formaldehyde]

That looks kind of cool. Certainly it provides a little variation to the glass tower theme. Personally, I would have put something to decorate all those empty areas.

That is probably its most appealing angle. And it actually clashes with every other building around it, which is why it is considered to be in such poor architectural taste. Here are some more photos of it.

 

[amadeus]

These are ugly buildings:

http://images.google.com/images?q=slums&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Yeah, but the guys who "designed" those places didn't get a million bucks for it.

 

[GinandTonic]

Londoners voted St Pancras International their favourite building. Pub trivia - on completion (c. 1870ish) it was the tallest commercial building in the world.

It's not ugly.

Opposite is Camden town hall, a dignified if uninspiring example of neo-classical municipal victoriana.

And next to these two is a third building. An extension to the town hall. An extension that some cynics might note was built to house the planning department.

Ding dong the witch is dead, the evil bugger is to be torn down

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I couldn't find an image of this (understandable) so I googlemapped. I drive past it every day. It really is awful.

 

[Quackers]

Moscow University

 

[bestrfcplayer]

The last pic makes it seem really bad.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Truly horrible.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

WTH? ^^