The worst building in the world

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Not the worst but wait...

120 Fenchurch Street in London, not that bad really, a bit bland but look at what the developers want to demolish to build it...

WHAT!!!! English Heritage are so busy trying to block all skyscraper development they don't even notice the true vandalism being done to London...

[Jay Ess 15]

The facade of the Glazed Hall in Beijing is nasty.

BTW. Glad to not see Detroit, Tiranë or Zagreb on this topic!

[derwilly 17]

Originally posted by: Muck308 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

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A crazy man flew into the tower trying to emulate 9/11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Pirelli_Tower_plane_crash

[Alexzero77 3]

Everyone's favourite building is back! Even finished results have been displayed; I sort of like it.

Anyways, today's pet peeve, the Atlantis hotel in Dubai. TBH, I adore lots of the projects going on out there, but this is crappy. Who in their right mind would stick a giant cloister arch in the middle of something?

Discuss plx.

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Originally posted by: super_monkey

You thought those were ugly...look @ these...

Can't remember were that one is

Kaliningrad Former U.S.S.R

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Those two are HIDEOUS. The first one made me choke on my drink... not just how hideously ugly the design is but how it dominates everything...

[Muck308 55]

This one has always bothered me as well. It seems very out of place. When I was in Lyon in 96 I couldn't stand to stare at this building.

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Originally posted by: screamingman12 Hmm...

That brutalist building that overhangs the two rowhouses.quote>

"Sorry, we can't let you demolish those houses, they're too historical."

"Hmmmm... I have an idea..."

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Worst one here in Sydney, it's just out of the main city so it sticks out really badly over the older lower buildings. Another 70s piece of garbage.

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Blues Point Tower. It looks like they tried their hardest to ruin a nice view and parkland. Completely out of place and a terrible building anyway. Ugliest placement of a building IMO.

[Muck308 55]

/\ I remember that building, I agree it looks like crap, same goes for those buildings near Sydney's train station, with the TNT logos on them

[leleone 0]

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 The top two gehry creations are awesome

However, what the hell is that third thing?quote>

Torre Velasca in Milan, Italy

[Alexzero77 3]

Originally posted by: Whenmonkeysbite

Worst one here in Sydney, it's just out of the main city so it sticks out really badly over the older lower buildings. Another 70s piece of garbage.quote>

And the Sydney Opera House isn't? That's from the 70s. You mean 60s when that style was popular.

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Originally posted by: Alexzero77

Originally posted by: Whenmonkeysbite

Worst one here in Sydney, it's just out of the main city so it sticks out really badly over the older lower buildings. Another 70s piece of garbage.quote>

And the Sydney Opera House isn't? That's from the 70s. You mean 60s when that style was popular.quote>

Yep 1957 (when it was designed) is really from the 70s...

Anyway LOOK AT THIS!

No this is not a joke.

It looks like a giant bacteria eating all the nice old houses X(

[Hahayoudied 3]

That building... is...so...un...matching...

Whoever created that building needs to pay attention the surronding. You don't slap a building like the Freedom Tower in a middle of a slum area.

[Metropolpitan 0]

Well, the one just posted is pretty horrible and way out of place, but to many Bostonians there is not a worse building than the new City Hall:

It's a huge concrete mass in the middle of the Financial District. And it dwarfs beautiful Faneuil Hall and was made with a huge plaza which is rarely filled to capacity.

And this is what they tore down: beautiful Scollay Square, the once heart of Boston:

Who cares if it was a hot-spot for prostitutes and other criminals. It was still pretty, wasn't it? 

[Alexzero77 3]

WAS, I bet when they tore it down it looked far from what it does there.

IMO, I like the Boston City Hall. It's the plaza at the front that truly spoils it. You have to understand, brutalism was to the 1960s as art deco was to the 20s and 30s, like it or not. If it's destroyed, part of a generation is damaged.

[ford-prefect 5]

That was exactly what I was going to say, Boston City Hall. It pisses me off so much when they destroy beautiful American mainstreet-style bulidings especially for something like Boston City Hall.

[KroyWen 1]

MSG is boring.

Metlife Building is not ugly, but looks like he's gonna eat the Grand Central.

[kawan 6]

Have some more contenders:

A shopping centre (behind the church).

I always mistook the buildings below as being under construction...

A rail station. Looks like a car park from the air. Destroy it now.

[Alexzero77 3]

kawan, that is indeed a parking garage atop the Pallasades Shopping Centre (upper levels of New Street Station) in Birmingham, UK. It's going to be renovated, but practically nothing will be demolished, thankfully because I like it.

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3106081&c=1

Opinions like yours made Birmingham a horror the past two decades. The second picture is also a structure in Birmingham, to be demolished with some Dubai-tastic building in its place. Within four to five more decades, futuristic stuff (Selfridges Department store) will be the new Brutalism.

[Jasoncw 11,949]

I think the train station is just fine. Even if the top part was an office I still think it's good.

[saltandsauce 0]

i think Brimingham New Street Station is the British Equivelant of Penn station in NYC, dingy, low ceilinged catacombs when most train statins here are lofty and airy

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

Originally posted by: Whenmonkeysbite

Originally posted by: Alexzero77

Originally posted by: Whenmonkeysbite

Worst one here in Sydney, it's just out of the main city so it sticks out really badly over the older lower buildings. Another 70s piece of garbage.quote>

And the Sydney Opera House isn't? That's from the 70s. You mean 60s when that style was popular.quote>

Yep 1957 (when it was designed) is really from the 70s...

Anyway LOOK AT THIS!

No this is not a joke.

It looks like a giant bacteria eating all the nice old houses X(quote>

wow, the bacteria building has to be the worst i have ever seen!

[fukuda 351]

not far from here blergh

[panthersimcity4 162]

Originally posted by: kawan

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I believe that's the Lisboa Casino in Macau. Ugly as heck. It looks like someone squished a lotus flower and placed it vertically.

[ford-prefect 5]

Sure MSG is ugly, but what makes me madder is what is destroyed:

[BuggUla 405]

Ugh! Some ghastly examples. And when you see what they replaced... a tragedy for the urban landscape.

[hamsterTK 93]

Yes the Plaza really gouged a hole in the heart of Boston's urban core

But I dunno, don't you think that Brutalist City Hall Building by itself is kind of cool?. I like that kind of architecture.

[Alexzero77 3]

The Knesset is a good looking building, but not for Israel's government. Why not something more flashier to represent the country?

[spa 970]

Boston isn't the only city with a horrible city hall. Check out the monstrosity that graces St. John's Newfoundland.

It is doubly ugly since St. John's is an old city that is largely still intact. It has kept its Atlantic Canadian flair meaning that most of old city is a great splash of colour that looks something like this: