The worst building in the world

[Blakeway 211]

Ugliest building: CN Tower (Toronto, Ontario)
Beautifulest: 1000 de la Gauchetière (Montréal, Québec)

Look the difference!


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[The Bluejay 40]

Originally posted by: wakkaolaf53

This one is in Zaandam, Holland

http://henk50.web-log.nl/onderweg/images/2009/12/05/hotel_zaandam.jpg

They tried to make something like old dutch style, but it's so ugly... i can barely look at it quote>

unsuprisingly, it got rave reviews

[Sretamdet 11]

Yes, I also hate the modernist Le Corbusier. He designed a lot of furniture too. He should have continue doing that.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

A personal favorite target of mine...

TransGuide Building / TransGuide Operations Center, San Antonio, Texas:

As part of the Texas Department of Transportation, this is a State of Texas owned building, and so the architecture is of the bland suburban bureaucratic style.  During construction, I thought this was the base of some post-modern skyscraper, and am still waiting for something to be put on top.  I used to have larger pictures, but, I must have deleted them, and I think TXDoT has removed images of critical public buildings from their websites.

Bland style aside, let me show you the real reason I do not like this building:

Ack!

No wonder they cropped their own building photo the way they did!  The TransGuide Building sits at the center of one of the "porkchop" null spaces created by the monster interchange tangle of I-410 and I-10.  I guess I should applaud their attempt to inhabit such a zone, but it's just not as cool looking as the dense expressways of Tokyo or Osaka.  No, no, this built environment is just inhumane, even for the poor TXDoT workers inside.

Actually, what goes on inside the building is rather cool--San Antonio's TransGuide was one of the pioneer programs in the U.S. to develop the "smart highway," with live camera monitoring, managed traffic control, real-time information systems, and intergrated emergency response.  Within the building is an operations center auditorium that looks like NASA control, complete with giant overhead screen and rows of control operators.  In this sense, the building's siting is fitting, just not beautiful.

I still wish they would someday build something more substantial.

[9988 428]

1.Worst idea: Burj dubai - Global warming will rise the sea and it will collapse, like entire dubai,if not, we will have new venice:-)

[9988 428]

1.Worst idea: Burj dubai - Global warming will rise the sea and it will collapse, like entire dubai,if not, we will have new venice:-)

[Titorotod 0]

Originally posted by: louisville327

This picture taken during construction is much more genital-like, I believe:

Those egg/phallus buildings really annoy me.

Swiss Re in London comes to mind as well:

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Lol! You're right it really looks weird...

[Northwestern 3]

 Looks like a damn radio tower to me, that or the old design of the Habbo Hotel.

[kccl35 83]

 The worst building in the world, IMO

[joshriddle 29]

I don't know where it's from, or what it's name is, it just looks terrible. It looks like someone took a cookie dough cutter  shaped like a square, and stuck it in there and took the squares out of it...

 I would enlarge it, but I don't know how.

Also, I also don't really like the Millienum Dome in London. Another thing too, I don't like the horrid looking natural gas drills in Texas! They place these giant ugly masts up in the middle of the city, put these giant ugly masts of walls up around them, and they stick the wells up for 2 months, and leave the wall behind. And these are everywhere, I just hate it!

[metroliner 1]

La Tour Montparnasse.

Literally a big, black rectangle in the middle of Paris. The city immediately regretted allowing it to be built.

[TigerXtrm 0]

The Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas. Sure it's Vegas so it's themed, but even then I think this is easily the ugliest building in Vegas and the world.

[Red Lightning 8]

I really is the UGLIEST building in the world!!!!!

[Alex_Bervoets 91]

I agree with the Excalibur hotel in Las Vegas... it is supposed to be a replica of a medieval european castle. The designers never saw a real castle (I think they used the castle in Disneyland as reference)

It looks twice as ugly because it's surrounded by all those modern buildings...

[LOLman789789 0]

Now THAT looks wrong! More wrong than it after it was completed.

[vendetta007.mike 0]

omg omg the worst building is the Coit Tower! It destroys all my plans for building diversity! This ugly thing plops everywhere like mushrooms and does not allow other business building appear!

[kccl35 83]

@joshriddle - Its the Elephant Tower in Bangkok, Thailand

[GYEvan 1]

(i wondering which stadium is the worst one in the world)

[GYEvan 1]

(i wondering which stadium is the worst one in the world)

[paulmc 393]

This probably ain't the worst building in the world (who knows ?) but is completelly abandoned , by the way, idle people who use drugs inhabits it , then it's a point that promotes the crime, is also known as vertical slum , how I wish to buldoze it !

in despite of that, they wanna to " revitalize" it, to look like this

it looks improved?

the architect seems to be inspired in this..

completelly eyesore..   i agree the lack of colors is bad , but we dont need to go too deep.. let´s buldoze all this crap right now plz, or at least paint it less messed up

[jakehh 52]

Worst building in melbourne, so hideous walking out of the train station and seeing... that.

[dehyan309 3]

I actually like it. Very abstract and unorthodox design, very fitting for this day in age. I also like the color scheme they chose as well as the material for those panels.

Not to mention the tower right behind it, center stage look great!

[jakehh 52]

But for the location, the Flinders Square that was proposed, it would have been better if Fed Square was built in a different location

[IrvingTwoSmokes 10]

I have a problem with buildings that just look like shards of glass, like the London Bridge tower or the new Freedom Tower. Nobody looks at the Chrysler Building or the Empire State Building and says "Yuck, look at that ugly piece of crap. God, what an eyesore!" They look at it and they see the character that the buildings have, and the feel that they have. Building some random building with some random shape doesn't always make it look cool. I think buildings need to have character. That means that shards of glass should have character too.

[nycsc4 5,250]

I don't know if its already been mentioned, but Boston City Hall is HORRIBLE! I don't have a pic, but its gross!

[Mt Agustine 0]

As a senior architecture student i have to laugh at the list of buildings that  have been put up as the worlds ugliest buildings, because half of these buildings have been presented as excellent examples of modern architecture to me in school. The only comment that i would disagree with in this thread is the Sagrada Familia. I have visited and i will swear to the death that it truly is the most beautiful building in the world. I once was not a fan of Gaudi but when you actually see the temple and experience it there is really no other building that compares, and its not even finished. When its completed 30 years from now(hopefully) it will without a doubt be one of the most spectacular buildings in the world.

[ev 3]

The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. Its 105 stories of concrete just waiting to fall. Its more of a safety hazard than an eyesore though. 

[GOLDfish.74 0]

I think Fed Sqare is a great example of good engineering and good architecture coming together. The fact that it's built on top of a railway line is no mean feat either. =) 

[Nardo69 51]

The ugliest building in the world? Actually - dunno.

Whenever I walk  through a typical street in a typical Turkish town with buildings younger than 70 years I think yup that eyesore is the most ugly building in the world. Until I move on its neighbour ... 

Those well known parts of Istanbul that are found in each broshure or travelling guides are usually either the remains of the Greek / Armenian minority that wasn't murdered or thrown out between WW I and 1955/56 or is the place where the foreigners lived (Beyoglu / Istiklal Cadesi / Taksim square) ... 

[Armonjoe201 5]

I agree with storms991.