Ugliest buildings thread
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It actually looks okay from the air
I like that Slovakian building! Why do you guys think it's ugly?
This. It actually fits in to a degree.
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I like that one. It yields space to the ground around it and makes things feel less claustrophobic.
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In my city:
It's so bad.
It's so bad.
I think the shape could work, just that in this case, it doesn't. Perhaps the pictures don't capture it well, but the building is a god-awful 60s brown and the surrounds are quite run-down. Yet it draws attention to itself, showing off these horrific qualities.
Re the pride of Saudia, this side of it looks even worse:
(the tower is not entirely finished in that pic, but afaik the rest is as it is now).
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This one is finished, though:
Some sort of music-hall building, in Seattle. Very grunge
(the tower is not entirely finished in that pic, but afaik the rest is as it is now).
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This one is finished, though:
Some sort of music-hall building, in Seattle. Very grunge
I'm sorry, but I like both of those, Kyriakos.
The thing I like about the Saudi hotel is that the scale is just so ridiculously over-the-top. Plus, it takes an icon - Big Ben - or the Tower of London or whatever the hooligans are calling it these days - and translates it to an Arabic environment. That's cool. I like that for a hotel. For a government building? Certainly not. But in this context I'm fine with it.
And your second one?
http://www.empmuseum.org/
It's awesome! I don't understand why you'd classify it as "ugly".
The thing I like about the Saudi hotel is that the scale is just so ridiculously over-the-top. Plus, it takes an icon - Big Ben - or the Tower of London or whatever the hooligans are calling it these days - and translates it to an Arabic environment. That's cool. I like that for a hotel. For a government building? Certainly not. But in this context I'm fine with it.
And your second one?
http://www.empmuseum.org/
It's awesome! I don't understand why you'd classify it as "ugly".
The inside may be great (utterly different matter), but the outside...well...doesn't look much like a building. More like lost paint which somehow suffered natural thrombosis and now threatens the body of Seattle with embolism?
Some sort of music-hall building, in Seattle. Very grunge
ARggh
Sorry Peter, gotta agree with the Makedonian on this one.
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To me it's just an unimaginative, oversized, obscene display of Saudi royal wealth. In other words, it's the McMansion of skyscrapers.
I think that's why I like it.
Josu
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Bailen "Skyscraper" in Bilbao
Well, this photo is not fair as in it the building is dirty
This one is more honest, I consider it as an ugly building yet
Well, this photo is not fair as in it the building is dirty
This one is more honest, I consider it as an ugly building yet
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Josu
Emperor
It was built in the 40s when Bilbao was an industrial city whose economy was based on iron and steel industry and shipyards
They have cleaned it a few months ago so that it matches better with the surrounding buildings, still it is the ugliest in the area
They have cleaned it a few months ago so that it matches better with the surrounding buildings, still it is the ugliest in the area
Hygro
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So am I the only person in the world who thinks this building is awesome? I loved how it dominates the landscape and the color melds with the desert. It looks freakin cool
I also think it's awesome.
I saw this marvel in Utrecht. I really like it, but it's also really ugly.
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If the Vatican were in Saudi Arabia:
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Must be a heck of a view from up there...
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Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
well I make zero claim to know the significance of that building and its impact on the surrounding area, merely that from that posted aerial the Saudi hotel looks cool.
