The worst building in the world

[BurroDiablo 222]

Haha, the concept alone makes me love it. Although, it looks more like a Multi-storey parking lot than an Office building

Where is it anyway?

[screamingman12 30]

DC somewhere, along Pennsylvania Ave.

[CasperVg 587]

The Experience Music Building, Seattle.

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: screamingman12 Hmm...

That brutalist building that overhangs the two rowhouses.quote>

 

Weird.. it looks like the building says Embassey of Mexico.

[Godzillaman 21]

Originally posted by: Micah

Originally posted by: screamingman12 Hmm...

That brutalist building that overhangs the two rowhouses.quote>

 

Weird.. it looks like the building says Embassey of Mexico.quote>

Well there is a Mexican flag hanging from it.

[marshall1167 0]

There's no contest, in fact it's not even up for debate.... it has to be the hotel in Pyongyang. It was built with such poor quality concrete, it can never support the weight of floors. It was never meant to be more than a 105-story shell, which will probably fall and crush an entire neighborhood one day...

[s_olah 87]

Here's the picture of Hotel Pyongyang:

[Callbat 8]

Looks like the tide didn't wash away the sand castle......

[W2K 0]

It's all nothing comparing to this piece of sh...

Its name is The Palace of Culture and Science and it's located in Warsaw. It's a gift from Russia built in 1950'ties. If fact all the people living in Warsaw wish it had been destroyed. Any way of demolishing thic crap would be good... But it's impossible. The Polish governmet treat it as a landmark ()

[Mulefisk 15]

Originally posted by: W2K It's all nothing comparing to this piece of sh...

Its name is The Palace of Culture and Science and it's located in Warsaw. It's a gift from Russia built in 1950'ties. If fact all the people living in Warsaw wish it had been destroyed. Any way of demolishing thic crap would be good... But it's impossible. The Polish governmet treat it as a landmark ()

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I'm guessing they call it a landmark because it must have been very expensive to build. What good would tearing it down do? You'd destroy tonnes of good office/residential space. I guess the reason why you hate it is because it came from the Soviet Union and Poland is trying to distance itself from the east now, but still, I think that's a silly reason to want to tear down a building, especially one so big. Statues maybe, soviet propaganda and symbols, but not an entire building.

[s_olah 87]

I totally agree, I posted the Bucharest Parliament building here like a week ago, as the worst building ever, but I must admit that the only good reason to why I don't like it, is that it was built in the communist era by Causescu, who tore down the old center to build that crap. same story with the Palace of Culture and Science, although in real life it doesn't look so bad...

[s_olah 87]

I don't know if anyone posted this here before, hope not, and if somebody did, I'm sorry...

It's a real fugly one...The National Library in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo...

[W2K 0]

You're right. The main reason why people want to tear it down is the need of the distance from Russia. But believe me it's a very good reason. It stands on place where the land is very valuable in Warsaw, It has very little office space. You said about removing the symbols of comunism. In fact the whole building is the symbol of it and trying to remove the symobols you'd have to tear down the whole. The building doesn't have his own style at all. It's a mixture of everything made in very ugly way. A shopping mall built on its place would be better than this.

[doodlea21 31]

How can you people hate Frank Gehry's architecture?!? You're insane!

Honestly half of the stuff on this thread looks perfectly nice to me...

I think someone should start a forum game where a person would post a picture of their least favorite building. Then the next person to post can say what they like about about it and post their own least favorite building.

I wouldn't be able to start that thread because I don't hate any buildings.

Honestly the only thing I don't like is THIS:

There, now everyone's seen it, no one has to post it again.

[saltandsauce 0]

the building in Poland fails to be the empire state building and has horrible fusions of architecture neo gothic, gothic georgian and a little greco-roman which mixes to form a horrid brown in the paint of architecture

[belfastuniguy 18]

The Palace of Culture isn't that bad actually.

It looks incredibly random in its current position, but develop around it and it would look pretty good. I would also remove the communication equipment from it though.

The Pristina library is pretty ugly though....

[Mulefisk 15]

Originally posted by: doodlea21 How can you people hate Frank Gehry's architecture?!? You're insane!

Honestly half of the stuff on this thread looks perfectly nice to me...

I think someone should start a forum game where a person would post a picture of their least favorite building. Then the next person to post can say what they like about about it and post their own least favorite building. quote>

That's a pretty good idea actually. Threads like these often turn into biased hate-machines agains 60's-70's architecture. saltandsause: If you're going to use the fact that it mixes architectural styles as a valid criticism you might as well throw in anything built between 1850 and 1920. Just because it borrows elements from other styles doesn't necessarily make it a bad building. Neo-gothic skyskrapers mix gothic styles with chicago-school, but do you see people calling the Tribune tower a "horrible clutter of styles"? Post modernism was all about taking elements from the past and using them in a new way. In the rennaisance people mixed old greek styles with more modern building methoods. So did the Romans. People have been doing this for ever. It's fine that you don't like it, but you can't say that it's a bad building simply because it mixes different architectural styles. What I can agree with on the other hand, is disliking it because it represents communism and totalitarianism. Poland has had a very rough history for the past 70 years or so, so the fact that they want to distance themselves from this period is understandable.

[wir3d 2]

Wow that red building looks awful

[Alexzero77 3]

The Reichstag is what a mullet would look like if it were a building. There's a big high-tech glass dome atop of a deteriorating old structure that used to look like this:

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[underwearman2007 0]

Ryugyong Hotel

Pyongyang North Korea

Worst Building on Earth.

[spacedragonblue 1]

As a New Yorker, my least favorite building here, and pretty much anywhere, is 375 Pearl Street (AKA the Verizon Building near the Brooklyn bridge). It's plain ugly and sticks out light a sore thumb from the neighborhood surrounding it. The contrast with the beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge is terrible. Thankfully, its due to have a total facade overhaul shortly that will at least diminish its blight on our skyline.

[Ndragonawa 37]

I don't have a picture for this one, but I remember my dad telling me a story of how he and 2 of his friends would snoop around the architect firm where he used to work (before he retired) after hours. He said that one of the old guys had a plan for a "Hot Dog Building", where it would be a box with hot dog shaped windows. That is the worst!

[josefmayor 8]

Our old Verizon Tower looks like that one. lol (in tampa)

[panthersimcity4 162]

The Westward Ho Hotel in Phoenix, AZ. What on earth were they thinking with that huge antena?

[Craig91 12]

Dublin has some bad ones. In amongst some beautiful buildings (and ugly ones) in Dublin City Centre is this travisty, Busaras

[torontotransit 2]

Originally posted by: Praetorian Cohort

Originally posted by: maosim Don't know if anyone has posted this yet so...

This is the House of Soviets in Kaliningrad, Russia

It was meant to be the central headquarters of the regions government but unfortunately everything didn't go as planned.

The building was constructed on top of the ruins of an old church where the ground was full of catacombs.

Building a concrete qube on top of a swiss cheese isn't the safest thing to do so the house was left to its destiny and now it serves as a mighty sentinel of the old days, overlooking the city.

Horrifyingly beautifulquote>

In Soviet Russia, building stares at YOU!!

(Does that look like a face to anyone else?)quote>

OMG, now that you mention it it does, thats just scary

[storms991 0]

Originally posted by: spacedragonblue As a New Yorker, my least favorite building here, and pretty much anywhere, is 375 Pearl Street (AKA the Verizon Building near the Brooklyn bridge). It's plain ugly and sticks out light a sore thumb from the neighborhood surrounding it. The contrast with the beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge is terrible. Thankfully, its due to have a total facade overhaul shortly that will at least diminish its blight on our skyline.

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This building is going to be re-clad with blue glass in the near future. You won't have to stare at those ugly concrete walls for long

[torontotransit 2]

I cant believe no one posted this yet. IMO, the ugliest building on EARTH, but officially the ugliest building in Canada. BEHOLD, THE MISSISSAUGA CITY HALL (BTW mississauga is a suburb of toronto) THis building just drives me crazy. its way too wide and it looks like a factory. In their official documents, its supposed to look like a barn or something

http://www.bestwesterntorontoairportwest.com/images/eventsandattractions/Cityhall.jpg

i hope you can see it

nvm, ill just attach it

[torontotransit 2]

on a side note, the boston city hall looks absolutely HIDEOUS!!!!

[Muck308 55]

I've always hated this building in Milan. Although I believe it caught on fire not to long ago didn't it? Anyone know if it fell over? I don't wish harm on anyone but I would love to see the Earth open up and swallow this behemoth