The worst building in the world

[Wrightguy0 40]

Bostons' Prudential building is in my opinion a very bad building, but nothing, and I mean nothing compares to the Chase builind in Lower Manhattan, not only did it destroy the flow of the classic New York skyline, but ti completly obscures 40 Wall Street from the north.

[JanYpe 17]

I nominate the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, king unified Italy. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, this beast can be seen from all over Rome. It's pompous, ugly,  replaced an entire medieval neighbourhood and throws a shadow on the Forum Romanum.

The wedding cake in all its ridiculous marble glory.

[patriots_1228 51]

Wrightguy-The Pru is ugly but we love it! it looks likea fishing boat on a 200 meter stick

[Callbat 8]

JanYpe: Uhh..are you joking? that thing looks rather good!

[Mulefisk 15]

Originally posted by: JanYpe I nominate the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, king unified Italy. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, this beast can be seen from all over Rome. It's pompous, ugly,  replaced an entire medieval neighbourhood and throws a shadow on the Forum Romanum.

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Agreed. 

Just look how grey and dull it is. It's also made up of boxes. And coloumns, lol, how unoriginal is that? 

Such a lack of creativity.

[JanYpe 17]

By design it's hideous, phoney and imposing. It does not look good. I'll try to get a picture that shows its scale better though.

[Wrightguy0 40]

I guess it's just one of those places you get used to over the years

I'd also like to nominate the Police HQ in winnepeg, that brutalist monstrosity sould be imploded for something that dosen't look like it was taken form Communist Russia

[shanemelbourne 29]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this building before, but I had the "pleasure" of viewing it on a recent trip to Macau.  If you think Chicago's dildo looks bad, think again...

[Potoroo 0]

For the epitome of architectural exrement I think it impossible to go past Melbourne's Federation square.  All sharp angles and concrete, in a style I call Urban Camouflage, the entire precinct looks like a rejected set from Terminator 3.  It's the ugliest and unfriendliest place I've ever seen.

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, JanYpe ...

My mind - this is a beautiful building for me today ...

But I will speak about this more right after 200 years ...

[Wheezy 23]

Originally posted by: ILL Tonkso

King Alfred Development, Hove, West Sussex.

Click at your own risk  http://www.thekingalfred.org/models_1.asp 

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And this, class, is why we don't do acid and design apartment complexes.

[saltandsauce 0]

interesting point someone made about buildings being boxes

this is true but what people mean by boxes is they mean its bland or it looks blank

a lot of cuboids in New York don't look AS bad because they have something going on like framework and tonnes of windows (with spaces in between them) but modern skyscrapers are more floor to ceiling windows and give this giant mirror effect which is quite risky

the building in philidelphia breaks the structural rule of buildings that is : the more they are shaped like mountains the stronger it is and there is not a mountain in the world that gets bigger at the top

also a point on box stores and housing in general rule known since the reniessance you should not have a building that exceeds a height to width ration of  1:4 so a building of 1:6 would violate that

the reason we like spires is because it looks more like a peak tand not like a plateau its the sauce on your steak the cherry on your cake. it looks more like a mountain peak

having no blank walls has been known since the reniessance and when blank walls were put in place they made frilly things, empty flus(chimneys) and falsly bricked up windows etc. to keep the wall "painted" per se

don't tell me i know nothing about architecture now

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

I agree with pretty much everything you just said there Saltandsauce, and I have an image that will please you.

This is a new build Now THATS architecture.

[GAT-X105 3]

Wow, God bless whoever built that!

There are a bunch of apartments going up near me in NY that are nothing more than a big, plain red brick rectangle with no windows. They suck.

[wir3d 2]

Yeah i agree.

[bigskelding 12]

I have my vote in for this forgot about wonder in Detroit

[IDS2 3,429]

THIS:

It's a hotel in Beijing...I wanna stay in the beard!

The VIP suite is apparently in the pumpkin think the guy on the left is holding.

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Originally posted by: Ratieya455

Originally posted by: grinch337 One must not forget Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota.... locally referred to as the 'crack stacks', this building was featured in the mary tyler moore show.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Plazaquote>

You beat me to it. Also known as the Ghetto in the Sky.quote>

OH MY GOSH that is the ugliest building ever built in the history of history. I have to see it all the time and my eyes melt all the time. There are like 10 of them too. You Canadians, be glad you're in Canada. This thing emits radiation by night, no joke. I swear it turns green.

[s_olah 87]

I could write a whole novel about bad architecture...here's one example, the BRD Bank building in Cluj Napoca, Romania

[s_olah 87]

Oh, and lets not forget the People's Palace in Bucharest...

[Godzillaman 21]

^ It's not bad, it's certainly not the best though...

[stratusmonkey 0]

Originally posted by: Godzillaman ^ It's not bad, it's certainly not the best though...quote>

From a couple of angles it doesn't look bad.  And some rooms are beautifully appointed.  But judging from its Wikipedia article, it's a monstrosity of grandiose Stalinist architecture.  Large portions of it are a vacant shell.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Hmm... not the best peice of Stalinist architecture but certianly not the worst building in the world. My only beef is that it doesn't have more to it... I mean, it looks like somebody just lobbed the top and all the interesting stuff off the Hotel Ukraina.

[lacivian 0]

These days houses the Parliament of Romania. It's a monumental comunist kitch, which pretends to be a landmark of BUcharest. There is a word that the Peoples Palace in Bucharest is the 2nd biggest building in the world after the Pentagon.

[GreyStreak 0]

Don't know if these've been posted already, but here we go

This is just weird

Um.... curves is a no-no

Um....

Don't you 'love' all the 'pretty' colors?

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

What? How in the world can you hate the Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum? You have to go there yourself to see how impressive it is.

EDIT: Never mind, it's the Disney Hall in L.A, always get them confused. Still, I think it's a cool building.

[patriots_1228 51]

The top two gehry creations are awesome

However, what the hell is that third thing?

[The_Hutt 11]

This is pretty...weird. It's the main library at UCSD.

[DanWalker8 3]

hah, that ship reminds me of the alien craft in "Close Encounters with the Third Kind"

[Mulefisk 15]

Originally posted by: GreyStreak

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You think this is bad? Has you seen some of the other stuff Gehry has made? This is IMO one of his better buildings.

[screamingman12 30]

Hmm...

That brutalist building that overhangs the two rowhouses.