The worst building in the world

[toxicpiano 125]

What's that building in manhatten that has no windows and is a comm tower or soemthing?

[Evil Weasel 88]

Let's not forget some of Toronto's jewels.

The crystal is eating the edwardian-ish museum.

Air raid anyone?

Fort book.

Mmm yumm. Manulife Centre. Anybody who though commercial skyscrapers couldn't look like ghetto drug bunkers...well, they can. I live in this area of the city- lots of good looking skycrapers. Lots of horrible grey cinderblocks to balance it out.

[TV-VCR 15]

Yonkers Power Plant project (Yonkers, New York). Design by Will Alsop. I think it's been completed.

Unknown building from Dubai:

[Muck308 55]

Originally posted by: toxicpiano What's that building in manhatten that has no windows and is a comm tower or soemthing?quote>

 

I'm sure what building you mean... is it this one?

[TV-VCR 15]

Originally posted by: Muck308

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Ew, the Verizon building. I think it's getting it's facade remodeled soon?

[Muck308 55]

They should pick it up with helicopters and move it to the Bronx.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

Eeep, talk about sticking out unwantedly into a photographic skyline, even trying to overpower the Brooklyn Bridge with a crass commercial sign. Might was well have painted it yellow with green polka-dots...hmmm, actually, that would fit better.

[_Atticus 10]

Here is a certified eyesore

This or anything else made by Frank Gehry is truly awful.

In my humble opinion.

-Pingangster

Edit: I fail at uploading pictures

[Wheezy 23]

Geccchhhh. The Verizon building looks like it was (badly) Photoshopped into that picture.

That's what you get when you give an architect a sheet of notebook paper, a ruler, and a five minute time limit.

Also, both buildings in TV-VCR's post are indescribably hideous. Words fail me.

Finally, @ newyorkrunaway1: One day, that building is going to start oozing across the hills. Then it will eat your kids.

[TV-VCR 15]

Here's the new design for 375 Pearl St.

FYI, it's the same building just the facade will be redone. In my opinion, this isn't exactly what I was expecting. To be honest it looks pretty nice, but it just looks so out of place compared to the buildings surrounding it. Case in point:

[panthersimcity4 162]

Verizon Building? MUST....DESTROY.....

Whoever came up with the idea of building a windowless pile of crap in front of a beautiful skyline deserves horrible nightmares!

[TV-VCR 15]

Originally posted by: panthersimcity4

Verizon Building? MUST....DESTROY.....

Whoever came up with the idea of building a windowless pile of crap in front of a beautiful skyline deserves horrible nightmares!

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The new facade design, to put it in incredibly simple terms, is just one big window.

[Muck308 55]

It's not bad... but I would have been satisfied with a mural on the huge windowless east side of the building... but it may have been a bit out of place...

And while on the subject of murals, here is one that was painted about 4 or 5 years ago in Pittsburgh's strip district... I always assumed it would be finished, but apparently it is... looks silly with the rest of the building unpainted. But otherwise it's very dynamic. It depicts the Sixthteenth St. Bridge.

[patriots_1228 51]

I lol'd at the bacteria building.

Boston City Hall itself is actually an incredible example of a brutalist building. The problem is a) they never put up all the plants on it that would have looked much better b) It fits in with its surroundings terribly. It just looks awful in boston. Send it to moscow or somthing.... c) they destroyed one of the best spots in boston, d) that whole friggen complex is an eyesore. Not only do you have city hall, but you also have about a 100 somthing meter long 10 story wall going along on road, this massive sprawling complex that was supposed to have a tower on it but that never got built, and that hideous parking garage. Whole area is awful. At least they are building two 50 and 40 story buildings on the parking garage that look kinda like Lippo.

Boston City Hall was actually voted ugliest building in the world a couple weeks ago

[Terring 6,476]

There are many ugly buildings here at Athens, but the worst is Piraeus Trade Center Tower

[simworld2 4]

The Gateway Project -- Ras Al Khaimah has got to be the worst.

[Isterlan 3]

maybe you've heard about the terrible collapse of the Cologne Municipal Archives Bldg, probably resulting in loss of many valuable documents, including manuscripts from the 10th ct...

btw, the structure itself was maybe one of the ugliest in the world:

Basically, I've got no problems with brutalist bldgs, eg. the earlier posted Robarts Library, Toronto is pretty cool, but there are some real concrete dinosaurs:

Torre Velasca, Milan:

A typical Eastern European concrete residential block:

Oh, and the disproportioned, weirdly decorated giant freaks of Shanghai, Shenzhen, and the Central Asian countries, completely lacking taste:

All pics from Wikimedia Commons, under GNU FD license

[simworld2 4]

Those last few are actually nice. to me that is.

[vershner 11]

Just had a quick flick through this topic and I can't believe this one hasn't come up yet. It's the Beetham Tower in Manchester. Hideous exterior, wider at the top on one side only!  It's by far the tallest building in the area and doesn't blend in in the slightest.

[josefmayor 8]

Originally posted by: pingangster

This or anything else made by Frank Gehry is truly awful.

In my humble opinion.

-Pingangster

Edit: I fail at uploading picturesquote>

The Gugenheim in Bilbao that he did failed to satisfy their needs. His designs lacked functionality, while innovative and intreguing they fail to do their main purpose. I think Frank Gehry has cool designs but as an architect he has a tendacy to not listen to the client with space planning and meeting their requirements.

That NYC building he did that was inspired by sails is my favorite by him.

Another fun fact about his problems as an architect, when Walt Disney Cocnert Hall in LA was first constructed the metal material they used was to reflective and it heated street level to unbearable levesl and also made the surrounding buildings incredibly hot. He had to go back and make em reflect less.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Originally posted by: vershner Just had a quick flick through this topic and I can't believe this one hasn't come up yet. It's the Beetham Tower in Manchester. Hideous exterior, wider at the top on one side only!  It's by far the tallest building in the area and doesn't blend in in the slightest.

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We like to call that one the Citadel (see HL2) . I think its a pretty cool building, but the location is definitely  odd.

[katamariguy 6]

Some of these buildings are so horrible they would scare small children.

My all-time worst is the SK Telecom building in Seoul. Not only is it ugly, its also out of place-  its the only "glass block" building in the area.

And don't get me started on the rows of mindless apartments...

[chris0101 8]

Imagine if the buildings on this thread were all relocated to one city. Lol - it`d be the ultimate ugly city.

I still think that the Art OECD building is the most ugly. It needs to be bulldozed. As for that building in Warsaw, I think that if you added a new coat of paint to make it fit with the city more, changed the lights, it wouldn`t look so bad.

[Follarch 327]

SimHoTToDDyquote>

lol I'd call it that too. Hey, wanna go get dog and storm the place? ;P

And i agree with that other person, those towers in China, mostly in Hong Kong are awesome! I love the futuristic quality they have, I'd love to see those everywhere!

[Doofenshmirtz 0]

Originally posted by: Isterlan

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That's freakishly similar to the type of skyscraper i usually end up drawing whenever i'm bored. i think this has to be one of the nice ones IMO in this thread because it at least has a flow throughout (give or take the ball at the top).

[jotauveefe 24]

Originally posted by: jeeper767

I absolutely hate the Familia Sagrada.quote>

Well I've seen all my life Sagrada Familia and really I don't love it, but it's not so ugly

But never mind, everyone has its opinions.

But the Agbar Tower, which has been discussed here, I love it, as it changes in colurs, and most of barcelona's inhabitants have got accustommed to it, but people who don't see ir normally find the tower really ugly and transgressor.

[Sapulator 0]

Nothing tops this:

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

I still reckon Federation Square looks crap. Located on the corner of Flinders & Swanston St (St. Kilda Rd). It's opposite Flinders St. Station, Melbourne's main rail hub.

[SteveMSim 275]

Originally posted by: Isterlan

Oh, and the disproportioned, weirdly decorated giant freaks of Shanghai, Shenzhen, and the Central Asian countries, completely lacking taste:

All pics from Wikimedia Commons, under GNU FD licensequote>

I see the Asian skyscrapers having character in their designs although they are modernistic.  Among the finest-looking Asian skyscrapers are the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.  Excuse me, since this thread is about the worst-looking buildings around the world.

[lowbart 2]

Originally posted by: storms991

P.S. The Mcmansions are not actually made out of brick, they are just there for decorationquote>

Oh look, it's Daria Morgendorffer's house!