The World's Ugliest Buildings
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Ulyaoth
Emperor
How? Dubai makes classy buildings, not cheap looking imitations of random famous buildings and structures.
Annex
Tyranny and Mutation
I'd take Las Vegas over most of the stuff in this thread. As Ulyaoth pointed out, half the stuff is based off other landmarks anyway
Disgustipated
Deity
every single building in that picture is awesome. It helps most of our buildings are new. So you don't have that dingy old building look. Tacky is just a word that snobs use. Visually there is nothing wrong with any of the buildings on the strip. They aren't exactly original, but they weren't meant to be.
Now many of our downtown buildings are getting old, and are in need of a facelift. Lady Luck has been closed for years, and it looks bad. Especially at night with no lights on it. So if you are going to post a picture of ugly Las Vegas buildings post a picture of downtown, not the strip.
Now many of our downtown buildings are getting old, and are in need of a facelift. Lady Luck has been closed for years, and it looks bad. Especially at night with no lights on it. So if you are going to post a picture of ugly Las Vegas buildings post a picture of downtown, not the strip.
Disgustipated
Deity
Dubai is pretty cool actually. I like their buildings. And those guys helped build our City Center. It's nice to have money flow in from the middle east for a change. 
If we didn't have height restrictions, however, we could build just as cool as buildings as them. But we have pretty severe height restrictions. So no very tall buildings for us. No matter, we don't need to compensate for lack of size like they do
If we didn't have height restrictions, however, we could build just as cool as buildings as them. But we have pretty severe height restrictions. So no very tall buildings for us. No matter, we don't need to compensate for lack of size like they do
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
The high-rise trying to look like a castle is an eyesore.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
Perf nailed it with the crack stacks. Like all big-government projects, it was a miserable failure; intended originally as a mixed-community of varying income groups, it rapidly became a hideous and relatively unsafe place to live. It's more of an immigrant ghetto now than anything else.
The army should tow in some artillery pieces and we should blast that place back to the Soviet Union where it belongs.
The army should tow in some artillery pieces and we should blast that place back to the Soviet Union where it belongs.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Right. There's nothing tacky whatsoever about Las Vegas. You would have to be a snob to even think so.
Link to video.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
As is "smelly", but that doesn't justify the decision to avoid showering for six weeks.
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
I wouldn't bare to see Las Vegas during the day!
Disgustipated
Deity
I stand by my comment. Many people like the Excalibur hotel/casino (the castle picture). It's not my thing. But many in lower middle class america like that. Even if it is tacky, it's still snobbish to put it down. Basically what that's saying is your social class thinks it's aweful, but a majority of the population thinks it's great. Hence the snob word. There's nothing wrong with being a snob on certain things. I'm a snob when it comes to beer. I never drink Budweiser or typical american beers.
The first picture is the Pioneer club. That is a historic sign btw. It's part of Vegas history. We did have a southern/small town influence on our town in the beginning. Hence the cowboy. That sign is a historical part of our town. There isn't much of old Vegas left, that sign is part of old Vegas. So basically if you don't like that you are saying you don't like old people or the people who made Las Vegas what it is today. It's okay if you are like that. Many people don't like old people. Just admit to it is all I ask.
The last picture is some kind of Elvis picture. The guy was the King of Rock and Roll. Need I say more? Again this is snobbery towards old people. And like I said, it's okay, but admit to it. I do. I hate Elvis. I think he's stupid. But just because I hate him, that doesn't change the fact millions of americans love him.
The same can be said about many other buildings in this thread. It may not suit our tastes, but somebody out there probably likes that building (hopefully at least the architect does
)
The first picture is the Pioneer club. That is a historic sign btw. It's part of Vegas history. We did have a southern/small town influence on our town in the beginning. Hence the cowboy. That sign is a historical part of our town. There isn't much of old Vegas left, that sign is part of old Vegas. So basically if you don't like that you are saying you don't like old people or the people who made Las Vegas what it is today. It's okay if you are like that. Many people don't like old people. Just admit to it is all I ask.
The last picture is some kind of Elvis picture. The guy was the King of Rock and Roll. Need I say more? Again this is snobbery towards old people. And like I said, it's okay, but admit to it. I do. I hate Elvis. I think he's stupid. But just because I hate him, that doesn't change the fact millions of americans love him.
The same can be said about many other buildings in this thread. It may not suit our tastes, but somebody out there probably likes that building (hopefully at least the architect does
)
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Well, to speak for myself, that's one of the reason I dislike the kind of culture expressed by the architecture shown: it's classist and manipulative. It doesn't encourage intellectual or cultural growth, it cultivates stagnation. It conspires, albeit unconsciously, to keep the working class dumb. The working class are, after all, quite capable of comprehending and appreciating thoughtful culture- the graphic design section at a larger bookshop or a library should have a book or two about early Soviet art and architecture which bears this out; see spoiler- but are generally discouraged from doing so by a stratified culture. Indulging them with soulless kitsch merely perpetuates this, as does the assertion that this kind of rubbish is "for the working class", and that more considered art is not only "for someone else", but that it is, by implication, "not for the working class". It's the middle classes saying to themselves, "now, what do those proles like? Ah yes, crap!" and proceeding to build acres of it.
Spoiler :
Well, to speak for myself, that's one of the reason I dislike the kind of culture expressed by the architecture shown: it's classist and manipulative. It doesn't encourage intellectual or cultural growth, it cultivates stagnation. It conspires, albeit unconsciously, to keep the working class dumb. The working class are, after all, quite capable of comprehending and appreciating thoughtful culture- the graphic design section at a larger bookshop or a library should have a book or two about early Soviet art and architecture which bears this out; see spoiler- but are generally discouraged from doing so by a stratified culture. Indulging them with soulless kitsch merely perpetuates this, as does the assertion that this kind of rubbish the working class" them, and that more considered art is not only "for someone else", but that it is, by implication, "not for them". It's the middle classes saying to themselves, "now, what do those proles like? Ah yes, crap!" and proceeding to build acres of it.
Spoiler :
But is Las Vegas for the working class? They don't exactly have money for gambling.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Well, I was describing that sort of culture in general, rather than Las Vega in particular. Also, for a variety of reasons, the term "working class" has a different meaning in Europe, and is essentially equivalent to the American "lower-middle class". I suppose I translated one way when reading, and didn't think to translate back when working. I guess it just felt weird using "lower-middle class" to refer to automotive workers and skilled labourers when, in my normal usage, it means school teachers and corporate middle management.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I take it you've never been there and didn't watch the Big Elvis video above. Places like Las Vegas are particularly diligent about taking the quarters of the working class and the elderly via the one-armed bandits, as much as they are at taking the thousands from the "players" at the high stakes tables. The payout for slot machines is typically far worse than any of the other "games of chance".
And Las Vegas has now become a giant family-oriented amusement park to a great extent. Many people go there and never gamble at all.
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is by far the winner.
Quackers
The Frog
It's uglyness is enhanced immeasurably when you know it's built in a slave state where ordinary North Koreans are on a starvation diet.
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