Worst buildings in your home town

[Astroman 0]

I have some buildings,In my home town that would go off the chart in simtropolis for bad architecture.One of the buildings is kind of looks like some thing came from the Matrix it's all green and grid like.

[jt_144_2004 0]

In my opinion, this is one of our worst

[lrfox 2]

Not from MY town, but i'm from Metro Boston and this thing is hated...

Boston City Hall

[MrFingers 0]

That is seriously hideous! haha

Yale's art and architecture building; ironic or what?

[SystemUK 0]

This is one of the worst. Not the worst but this is about as bad as I could find on Google.

[Royal 5]

The worst building in my hometown is "Kent School". The Nazis killed there a lot of children, very bad

http://www.kent-school.co.uk/

Today it is a ugly church, very unpretty :

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

DFont even get me started on Portsmouth England Were in the record books for this

[DavidBrown 0]

We have a lot of bad buildings in Ilfracombe (England) -most of which seem to burn down.

Edited to fix link.

[cammo2003 20]

Blues Point Tower would have to be among the biggest mistakes in Sydney. Ugly, 1960's residential tower.

And it sits RIGHT ON THE HARBOUR (!). The views from there must be among the best in Sydney, however. I don't know WHAT Seidler was thinking...

[hdorriker 190]

No surprize: everybody hates the 60's and 70's.

Pffft

I don't have a picture of them, but interspersed amongst the actually very nicely maintained and cute little houses in old town fort collins, every once in a while there is a stretch of houses which are completely idiotic in every aspect of their existence.

Idiotic as in, the architect had to of known that they were designing a house which would never be anything other than a hovel, crackhouse or brothel when they drafted it up back in 1890, 1920, 1940 or whatever.

Who the hell came up with the stupid idea of putting all the tiny windows five feet above the floor, where they can let in as little light as possible, and so you can't see anything out of them. There is no way to decorate around that. It's just freaking ugly.

I'm not sure what's up with veritcal siding if when you step back and realize "Wow, now this is a slum. Come wintertime, the dirty white veritcal siding and the snow will make this a frozen, glare-generating reflection machine that some poor student is going to make the mistake of living in.". There are some idiotically designed houses over there that I think graffitti would actually improve, just for the sake that with graffitti then they would at least be artsy, in a cool guerilla-art/counter-culture way.

Oh yeah, and there is a brutalist post-office building in town that everyone but me hates. Really, it isn't that bad, it's interesting. It, along with the First National Bank tower (which I have BATted for STEX) makes the downtown look like it didn't just teleport through time from 1930 straight to 1980.

[lrfox 2]

hdorriker- hahaha. when i posted Boston City hall, i actually thought of your BATs and the style in which you build. I figured if anyone would disagree with my post on Boston City Hall it would probably be you. Brutalist can work and it actually took me a while to decide i don't like Boston City hall.

Just because i know most people will throw up Brutalist buildings and stuff from the 70's 80's i will throw this more modern one up that i hate from Boston.

 

and one example of Brutalist i like from my home town, Fall  River-

[Motina 77]

Originally posted by: lrfox Not from MY town, but i'm from Metro Boston and this thing is hated...

Boston City Hall

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Oh my god, I love it. Such a nice Britalist bulding.

[connor_v 3]

I live in the town of Whitecourt, Alberta.

 I think THIS is the ugliest building in my town.

http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weyerhauserix1.jpg

This lumber mill, owned by the Weyerhauser company, was built in the sixties in Whitecourts bourgeoning lumber industry. Over the years, the town grew to the edges of the plant. The closest building to it is the Millside Place Bowling Alley, where 60 foot logpiles are a stones throw away. Our whole town, although over 100 years old, is completely filled with 1970's and 80's buildings. Where has all of our historic architecture went? Well, lets just say it was "moved" to make place for certain buildings I mentioned earlier. Some of things that were demolished include :

Several Victorian style houses, a railroad station, Harold's Hotel and Billiard Hall, a brick town hall, and many, many old houses.

There was a 1950's Esso gas station, but it burnt down a few years ago, just before our St. Joseph's Catholic Church was purposefully burnt to the ground, and our A&W. The Jack Pine motel burnt down too. Wierd eh?

[lrfox 2]

@Motina- yeah, there's a real love hate relationship with it. i guess im on the "hate" end of that.

[Nenitosoyyo 19]

I really really hate this circle of life building that they built in downtown winnipeg, its just a waste of space and looks UGLY!

and I really hate winnipeg's City Hall, disgusting ugly.

[sc4portugal 10]

In Figueira the worst is buy far the Hotel Atl

[villagemayor 0]

In Toronto, the Holiday Inn on King St. West near Metro Hall is bad I think. And its so noticeable too because its white and green in colour.

[Sharp Dressed Man 0]

Originally posted by: MrFingers That is seriously hideous! haha

Yale's art and architecture building; ironic or what?

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 LOL. The Architecture building at my school is pretty bad, too; looks a bit like it was built by the Soviets.

...and I really hate winnipeg's City Hall, disgusting ugly.quote>

 Ah, another Winnipegger? I have to agree with you about thpse two buildings.

[dsl4c 0]

Portland, Oregon's "The Portland Building" by Micheal Graves in 1982, who now designs stuff for Target..

[ledge69 0]

The Tower Hotel in London, over shadows St. Katherines Dock and ruins views of the Tower of London, it's a popular hotel and no wonder as it's the only place you can't see this carbuncle.

[twistie 3]

Hmmm... I live in a fairly small town but the worst would have to be a building affectionately called 'The Sugar Shaker' by locals. The sugar shaker shaped building which has been under the ownership of about 20 different hotel chains over the years now calls itself a Holiday Inn. They repainted the top of it a nice blue colour compared to an ugly green it had been for many years. Too bad they just couldn't repaint the entire thing.

[bartonn 0]

Yeah those buildings are kinda ugly.......they have some things that do look ugly... yeah....I guess.......................................

I'm sure this takes the cake:

Converted water tower restraunt in the middle of lethbridge.

[aestiva 0]

Wow dsl4c!  

That is awesomely bad, The 80s really left us some cheap looking buildings.

[jvlm.123 0]

Definately this thing:

But then, it was demolished:

And replaced with this:

[hamsterTK 93]

Im with hdorriker. Some stuff many find ugly I like. The really ugly stuff is what's badly designed.

Houston is not my hometown, but this thing has enough ugly to share will all of texas, so I'll post it:

It used to be a days inn but has been empty for a very long time

[HuskerDude 12]

I couldn't find any examples online, but the Belltown district here in Seattle is fairly horrid. Very gentrified, lots of old buildings torn town to plop down ugly new fake "lofts" and condos. Just picture the most generic, cheap-looking instacondos you can think of, and plop them down in what used to be an interesting neighborhood.

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK Im with hdorriker. Some stuff many find ugly I like. The really ugly stuff is what's badly designed.

Houston is not my hometown, but this thing has enough ugly to share will all of texas, so I'll post it:

It used to be a days inn but has been empty for a very long time

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Ugh, I agree. I wish someone would demolish that thing. Funny how it's right next to Enron.

[BattleField-2142 9]

http://image16.webshots.com/16/7/20/37/184472037orSCVV_fs.jpg

Pretty ugly IMO.

[addax61024 6]

Here's a few that I can immediately think of:

1) Northampton Bus Station, UK

2) I kind of like it because of it's role in (the original 1969) Get Carter, but I'm sure a lot of people will hate it. Plus with this shot, you get the equally 'glorious' Indoor Market in front. The Gateshead carpark:

3) Westgate House in Newcastle. Look at the surrounding style of architecture and they slap this up..:

4) Probably the worst of the lot. Found everywhere in the UK in identikit form. The Wimpey/Barratt house. Homogenised boxes with plasterboard walls, plastic windows and absolutely no character. From Aberstwyth to Aberdeen, this mishmash of quasi-individualist features (you can have a red roof or a black one basically) not only turns the development to a hotchpotch wart on the landscape, development of such houses (I refrain from calling them, as developers insist on doing, homes) all over the country; that new house you buy is exactly the same as how many others in the country? 10? 50? 500? What does that say about the owner? Also, with the houses being crammed together so tight - basically a path wide enough for a wheelie-bin between the houses, and a sandpit sized garden, privacy is minimal. All houses take a period of time to 'bed in' to the environment, but one feels by the time these have; it'll be time to knock them down and start all over again. But hey, this keeps the homebuilders in business right?

This first one is entitled swallowsnest and the second is called berry hill. Two things I can guarantee you won't see in the developments.

[Shegevara 0]

the ugliest high school in my town