That's not ugly. I like it.
The World's Ugliest Buildings
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That's not ugly. I like it.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
I know right? Just looking at it burns the retinas.
What is that?
Truly horrible.
Communisto
Condottiere
Quackers
The Frog
Makes me want to puke.
Moshe Dayan
Da General
Kowloon Walled City. Basically this is what happens when no one bothers to regulate construction:
That's the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I actually kind of like it, but that is a terrible picture of it. The interior is the more impressive part.
Ergo Sum
Prince
I think the Guggenheim is not that unattractive. I went there last summer, it manages to fit a lot of museum-space in what seems like a small building from the exterior. For what it's worth.
That Moscow University building is awesome.
That Moscow University building is awesome.
Communisto
Condottiere
whats bad about it?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
True enough. The idea is that it's a single spiral, rather a series of discreet rooms and levels, to allow an unbroken progression of the gallery.
Spoiler :
Buildings, remember, are inhabited spaces first and foremost, and not, as so many posters seem to think, a sort of large-scale abstract sculpture. It is very hard to make anything more than superficial judgements from a few external photos.
Stalin's Empire Style is beautiful but it was very expensive. Buildings like this contributed to a housing shortage.
Gelion
Retired Captain
immedieatley after world wor 2?I could have sworn it was population growth
don't you wink at me!
innonimatu
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Kowloon Walled City. Basically this is what happens when no one bothers to regulate construction:
There's a certain "organic beauty" to it. But I wouldn't set foot there.
Apartments in Hong Kong
Now, I know they don't have a lot of land to build stuff on, but still, these are horrible.
But this, there's really nothing good I can find there.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I don't know, there's a certain "rational madness" to the second which is vaguely appealing, a sort of over-regimented surreality. Hellish as a place of inhabitance, I agree, but it has a sort of "ugly beauty" which is quite interesting, the inverse of the chaos of the Walled City. Certainly, they present an interesting contrast.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
The irony award seems to go to Yale's School of Art and Architecture.
Here's hoping it is similar to the Guggenheim. That you must go inside to understand the external architecture, as Traitorfish pointed out.
Here's hoping it is similar to the Guggenheim. That you must go inside to understand the external architecture, as Traitorfish pointed out.
I have absolutely no idea why they built the Science Wing and Humanities Wing to look like a fortified bunker at my university.
asjcnsgfsbag I had no idea you were even Canadian.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Architecture Schools like this seem to be quite divisive. They're typically designed by the architects heading the school- most staff will be practising architects- and so they are free to indulge themselves in a way which they are rarely able to do so. This can result in some very intelligent design work, but the aesthetics may often be over-particular, and do not necessarily age very well. In this case, a Brutalist aesthetic has been pursued, which was trendy among architects several decades ago, but never met with widespread popularity and has not aged particularly well.The irony award seems to go to Yale's School of Art and Architecture.
Here's hoping it is similar to the Guggenheim. That you must go inside to understand the external architecture, as Traitorfish pointed out.
Oddly enough, though, this often makes it quite a good place to be taught architecture, because you are, on a day to day basis, presented with opportunities to give critical examination to an out-of-the-ordinary building. Failures are often as educational as successes, after all.
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