[Troubadour]

We have all seen and lamented them: Those tragic cases of architectural nihilism whose only distinction is height. Offensively inoffensive; bland; mercilessly mediocre; perhaps adding insult to injury with superficial artistic flourishes that add absolutely nothing to the overall effect of the building or the beauty of the city. Post buildings like this that have particularly irritated you here in this thread: Skyscrapers that are the architectural equivalent of pastel print-paintings in a dentist's office - the shallow, bitterly phony images of architecture meant only to make your eye NOT notice them.

Thank Jeebus these buildings will not be remembered a few weeks after they're ultimately torn down - which they will, as no historical commission on the planet is going to designate them as landmarks - but at least bring them to light here so we can enjoy ridiculing them.

[M.K.]

^ maybe the most boring buildings i ever seen spread in this world. At least they have parks green in between to not be such horrible like in rio De janeiro Ipanema and Copacabana is, which also have similars horribility, to not mention the many comic blocks in Europe. Why they don't paint some in green, others in blue, red, yellow, pink to have they more colorful and renewed cheap? nice the Rainbow there.

[Flamesrule]

Well the WHOLE Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario skyline is practically soulless.

[wrab]

^ Yeah - about the only thing the twins had going for them was their size.

[M II A II R II K]

And their popularity after the fact was akin to a President getting killed and then temporarily getting 80% approval ratings.

[MolsonExport]

Well the WHOLE Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario skyline is practically soulless.

This.


Also, 97% of the office towers in Ottawa, Ontario (land of the reflective blue glass boxes ad nauseum).

[jetsetter]

I am going to nominate almost every skyscraper built after the 40s.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

I am going to nominate almost every skyscraper built after the 40s.

damn you really hate modern architecture :sly:

[Hayward]

You could take it from a very literal standpoint. Many of the older, more labor intensive buildings prior to the depression required a lot of immigrant labor as well as artists and skilled draftsman to produce the elaborate designs you see. Alot of blood sweat and tears went into the constructing those buildings brick by brick. Modernism brought manufacturing of standard components into the field...built by machine. Probably what I'm saying is a stretch and could be debated, but you may see what I'm getting at.

[CRE8IVEDESTRUCTION]

That ugly Verizon building with no windows in Manhattan is really ugly. Needs to be DEMOLISHED in my opinion.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

That ugly Verizon building with no windows in Manhattan is really ugly. Needs to be DEMOLISHED in my opinion.

is being recladded heres a pic

http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg
http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg

[CRE8IVEDESTRUCTION]

is being recladded heres a pic

http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg
http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg

OH WOW!!! That looks A LOT BETTER. Can't wait to see it completed.

[FtGreeneNY]

Yeah, I can see it out of my window and it hasn't even begun to begin being re-clad.

[CharlesCO]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3374336946_a35d141d53_o.jpg
Taken from here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=166939

It's not bad architecture, but for the city's tallest, it's not spectacular. Nobody's proud of it, but nobody's ashamed of it, either. The other two 50+ stories here are also pretty bland.

[TANGELD_SLC]

LDS Church Office Building: Not just soulless, but soul-sucking.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/63045299_10ea756973_b.jpg
jpstanley's flickr http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/63045299_10ea756973_b.jpg

http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/mikeedwardwest/SLC%202008%20to%202009/MikesPhonePicsnVideos412.jpg
Highrise_Mike http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/mikeedwardwest/SLC%202008%20to%202009/MikesPhonePicsnVideos412.jpg

[photoLith]

^^^
I actually love those types of buildings, they are just so massive and just pow in your face solid. Im glad they arent building them anymore though, one per city or less is good.

Now that building in Salt Lake City is terrible, I cant stand buildings like that, they are completely soulless and every last one needs to be reclad.

[RLS_rls]

^The Long Lines building really works with its lack of looks. The big vents/openings at the top and the weathered facade make it look like a giant machine. At least it doesn't bother looking like something else.

[M.K.]

Post #5: The world Trade Center were beautiful simple clean buildings, nothing wrong with their architecture, mainly cause was office very functional to be used for their time, the 70ies years. Soulless is much more those horrible small skyline in front of them. Have they also be destroyed for a beautiful nature promenade near water with trees and so on, instead? That is a horrible architecture. It is because many of those buildings in New York, why i don't appreciate much the city.

Post #14: Actually both are impressive good. I rather like the old facade of clean concrete. I think the glass one made it lose to be what is most today of midrises everywhere. Its character was gone.

Post #21 & #22: Both are very beautiful simple and functional office buildings of the old decades. I see nothing wrong with them. I am surely in United States has many more horrible decandent things to be compared as soulless, dirty, with all grafitti like it has in whole North and South America and even European cities. Those in other hand were nice kept interesting facades. I would like if the cities we live would have cleaned buildings like those, nothing wrong with them. And I agree all buildings shown in Post #23 are horrible, at least outside. I don't know inside whatever. The second photo of Post #22 shows an interesting very spread good neighborhood instead, it seems. I don't know in person. Better than what is found in whole Africa, which is already in medieval times and in Italy, France and East Europe.

[MolsonExport]

This soul-sucking sourpuss skyscrapper from London (Ontario):

http://www.jmclawyers.ca/images/jmc-courthouse.gif
jmclawyers.ca

The London Courthouse building. Vile banality, incorporated.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

This soul-sucking sourpuss skyscrapper from London (Ontario):

http://www.jmclawyers.ca/images/jmc-courthouse.gif
jmclawyers.ca

The London Courthouse building. Vile banality, incorporated.

ok you win...that thing is just horrible.....i think im depressed now.....:(

[HomrQT]

I don't see anything wrong with the Sears Tower, it definitely plays its part very well as a center piece and in my opinion looks damn good too. And the simple brick buildings of New York are awesome to me and create a great atmosphere of city living. That LDS Church Office Building in SLC is a crime against that city, and I think could only be made acceptable if other more decorative buildings were put around it.

[Cirrus]

I don't think "ugly" or "bland" are synonyms for "soul-less". WTC may have been both ugly and bland, but it definitely had a soul. Those towers had meaning, even before they were destroyed.

"Soul-less", to me, implies either thoughtless mass production or style over substance

[M.K.]

anytime,i cant stand it when idiots act so ignorantly toward others on this site for such insignificant reasons. the user who attacked you is an annoyance and burden to this site,he continues to have outburst against others for no reason and to put it simply he has a horrible attitude. hopefully this wont happen again because its so childish for such a great and intellectual internet community. as for others who are about to make the same mistake, think twice because it wont be tolerated by others on SSP.

-SONY

I will not add anything to your words, because you made it so greatfully. Thanks for the immense support. Yes, as an open minded who wants to contribute in a worldwide community coming here, then it is to join positive attitudes in my opinion about thematic architecture mainly, propose this site, and other man-made constructions, and not to skip from real life and using the space as psyco-therapeutic hours daily to forget the hard real life, attacking here in obscure personal identity, but this is common in forums, it is a pity. Unfortunatly it is tolerated here, cause many do. Pity, but still a great space even with those disappointments and frustations, hitting all time.

I agree with Cirrus that WTC was ever in many humans souls of desire and appreciation, so no way, those US icons were soul-less, in opposite, if they do not fit to most modern times and technologies, this is another point. For me a soulless structure is one that if i pass-by near it daily 1000 times i never stop for a while to make a blink wow of happiness. If my eyes move catching from some of those monolits with windows, than is really no soulless to me, in positive or negative appreciation of its architecture.

[Flamesrule]

i also don't think that yhe Sears tower is souless. It in fact is very interesting in my opinion.

[Steely Dan]

i also don't think that yhe Sears tower is souless. It in fact is very interesting in my opinion.

it's ABSOLUTELY not soulless, i know many people find the sears tower ugly or bland or whatever, but the building definitely has a soul. it may be a dark, evil, malevolent soul, but it's a soul none-the-less.

besides, how immensely appropriate is it that chicago, known as "the city of the big shoulders" thanks to sandburg's illustrious poem about the city, is actually overlooked by a large domineering skyscraper that literally has big giant shoulders? the sears tower has serious presence in the windy city; you better believe it's got soul.

[CharlesCO]

Here's one that's soulless. It's called "Vistaloft" and was just built near the University of Denver. It's a really nice, walkable area with a lot of shops, restaurants, and light rail, all clustered around the gorgeous DU campus.

This new apartment building is just a slab of concrete, is too tall for the area, and has a terrible street side presence.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg112/MobyLL/DU/vistaloft2.jpg

[rockyi]

The Mid-American Energy Building in Davenport. A very prominent structure in the Quad City skyline.
....Boring as hell.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/midam.jpg

[texcolo]

Here's one that's soulless. It's called "Vistaloft" and was just built near the University of Denver. It's a really nice, walkable area with a lot of shops, restaurants, and light rail, all clustered around the gorgeous DU campus.

This new apartment building is just a slab of concrete, is too tall for the area, and has a terrible street side presence.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg112/MobyLL/DU/vistaloft2.jpg

:jester:

I worked on that bad boy. I went out before they razed the previous apartment complex and took soil samples. I then tested the concrete and did a few rebar inspections on it. Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. I think the developer wanted to cram as many condos as possible into that space. It's too bad the street facade is so crummy.

[espalorius]

really interesting thread

i typically find big boxes to be soulless - i love houstons skyline but i think most of the individual towers are 'soulless'

some of those housing project towers (2nd post) are imo full of soullll

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

really interesting thread

i typically find big boxes to be soulless - i love houstons skyline but i think most of the individual towers are 'soulless'

some of those housing project towers (2nd post) are imo full of soullll

ok elaborate,why do you think low incoming housing has soul and character?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910
http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910

[rockyi]

Not exactly skyscrapers but here's few more from my area....

Despite it's happy name, I swear this sad building in Rock Islands west end always has a cloudy sky above it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/DCP_0781.jpg


This soulless shoebox hogs Rock Islands riverfront.
That Chevy, on the other hand, is loaded with soul!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/Rock%20Island/chevy.jpg

[Innsertnamehere]

the cn building in edmonton, pretty bad.

http://i.pbase.com/u17/spillios/upload/13914538.CNTowerwintersunset.jpg

source (http://www.pbase.com/spillios/image/13914538)

also, guy's hospital in london.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/100GuysHospital_pic1.jpg

source (http://www.skyscrapernews.com/imagesall.php?ref=100&idi=Guys+Hospital&images=all)

[ColDayMan]

^Hey, I morbidly like that building! It's the soul of evil!

[urbanlife]

ok elaborate,why do you think low incoming housing has soul and character?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910
http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910

For me they have a soul and character because they tell a story of an economic time and an idea of finding a modern way to house people. Most buildings can be considered to be soulless in photo or from a distance, the soul really comes from the ground when you are around them and the people that fill the building and its surroundings and how it works with its surroundings.

[M.K.]

oh guys, people here are complaining of wonderful good modern boxed shaped well maintained daily offices ones, immagine for this one in Sao Paulo if soulless or not of grafitti, but decrepit, anyway i agree those massive ones repeated to be entirely out of salt but they gave a roof to people instead they are going to slams... Better than nothing. Ok, today they are concrete slams, but a colorful painting in each one could resolve a better stay.

http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Source: Sao Paulo Abandonada, Oglobo ô bobo : http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Edifício Sao Vito etc. all region is soulless...

[Flamesrule]

the cn building in edmonton, pretty bad.

http://i.pbase.com/u17/spillios/upload/13914538.CNTowerwintersunset.jpg

source (http://www.pbase.com/spillios/image/13914538)

also, guy's hospital in london.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/100GuysHospital_pic1.jpg

source (http://www.skyscrapernews.com/imagesall.php?ref=100&idi=Guys+Hospital&images=all)

I really like that building.

[Tolbert]

http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Source: Sao Paulo Abandonada, Oglobo ô bobo : http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Edifício Sao Vito etc. all region is soulless...

Thats a great building, just in need of some renovation. Anything but soulles ...
imagine it beeing just coloured white and glas...:slob:

Same for the London hospital!

[M.K.]

Thats a great building, just in need of some renovation. Anything but soulles ...
imagine it beeing just coloured white and glas...:slob:

Same for the London hospital!

I totally agree with you. This was a building made in the 60ies. The big problem is that was so inside demolished of the original apartments, so slammish made from poor people without conditions that none budget can be positive enough for reviving it. It costs less imploding it and doing a modern one in place to reposition the families there. Unfortunatly it is not how decisions happen in Brazil, they still build a lot of boxes when some interesting buildings and whole neighborhoods could be reviewed for a better life to everyone, mentality of whole population otherwise is not practical enough for such. It has the huge costs also and politics who never see the quality life to everyone. Even people with low mentality goes still destroying the city, criminals of grafitti are not punished, so many facettes of destruction, which inerent belongs to humans. Here is a project of some revive this structure. Not what i really would like, but would be organized back in human conditions to live/survive: http://img265.imageshack.us/f/dsc07132r1gm2.jpg/
Source: Forumer of SSC who uploaded this project in his imageshack account. The picture came from a famous Architect trying to revive the building, which is now in very long process of implosion to make a park there, unbelievible, how disperdice of material is, a huge cost for having nothing in replace. Well, the whole city need urgent reviews, that are never made... pity!
More about in my diagrams: The information is precise enough regarding many research of mine, when i was editor:
(1. The water reservoir box is not in first diagram, but i did not updated the diagram because problems with AC disliking it)(2. This was the minimal point i left, but the rest is 100% precise to its today conditions)(3. Hope none current editor to go destroy my work...)
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=73900 http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?buildingID=73900

[Phil McAvity]

Post #5: The world Trade Center were beautiful simple clean buildings......

How anyone could find beauty in those huge, featureless, towering, soul-sucking pieces of shit is beyond me but then M.K. has always kind of struck me as insane. The terrorists probably would have been considered heroes if no one was in those buildings at the time.

[urbanlife]

How anyone could find beauty in those huge, featureless, towering, soul-sucking pieces of shit is beyond me but then M.K. has always kind of struck me as insane. The terrorists probably would have been considered heroes if no one was in those buildings at the time.

See, again, I would have to disagree with that opinion. Those towers had a lot of soul and spoke very clearly about who the architect was. Minoru Yamasaki was afraid of heights and he couldn't understand why anyone would want to be that high up and having floor to ceiling windows, which is where the distinct facade of the towers came from.

But again, I am not saying your opinion is wrong, just saying that not everyone feels the same way as you do about them.



Oh and calling other forumers "insane" makes you sound really classy and likable....

[Cirrus]

oh guys, people here are complaining of wonderful good modern boxed shaped well maintained daily offices ones, immagine for this one in Sao Paulo

You seem to be misunderstanding "ugly" for "soulless". They do not mean the same thing.

[texcolo]

http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Source: Sao Paulo Abandonada, Oglobo ô bobo : http://saopauloabandonada.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/saovito01.jpg
Edifício Sao Vito etc. all region is soulless...

What this edifice lacks in soul it makes up for in funk.

[Phil McAvity]

Oh and calling other forumers "insane" makes you sound really classy and likable....

Have you ever read (or rather attempted to read) any of M.K.'s incredibly long-winded, convoluted posts? I rarely get halfway through his posts before I just give up and move on to the next poster. His English is so poor he creates his own words that are utterly unintelligible. That tells me that he can't even be bothered to learn English beyond it's most basic, rudimentary level. Resultingly, I often skim over his posts.

Now back to the topic:

See, again, I would have to disagree with that opinion. Those towers had a lot of soul and spoke very clearly about who the architect was. Minoru Yamasaki was afraid of heights and he couldn't understand why anyone would want to be that high up and having floor to ceiling windows, which is where the distinct facade of the towers came from.

Assuming that what you said is right about Yamasaki, I hardly think that designing buildings based on one's own personal phobias gives the building "soul". What it gives it, is neuroses.

[hammersklavier]

LDS Church Office Building: Not just soulless, but soul-sucking.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/63045299_10ea756973_b.jpg
jpstanley's flickr http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/63045299_10ea756973_b.jpg

You know, I kind of like the look of that one. Maybe it's just the photographer getting a flattering angle.

That Verizon building that's being recladded looks kind of like a kitschily ugly building that in 20 years (with the current façade) would wind up getting a historic designation. :haha:

[Jonboy1983]

ok elaborate,why do you think low incoming housing has soul and character?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910
http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910

In my honest opinion, if those buildings were to have a voice, they'd sound like Ben Stein...

Buildings I cannot stand, how about anything brutalist, especially some of those buildings on Pitt's campus? I know I posted that in an older thread, but I cannot believe that they removed a gem of a MLB ballpark for that monstrosity.

Yeah, I'd pass by that place there and think, "I cannot believe that at one point this was right field..."

[photoLith]

^^^
Im sure one day most of those will be torn down and hopefully the original street grid and density will be restored the way it should be.

[austin242]

Guys hospital in london has so much potential to be a masterpiece with some new cladding it will be something any city would be glad to have just look at it here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=513615&page=11

[cockamamiesandwich]

ok elaborate,why do you think low incoming housing has soul and character?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910
http://s3.amazonaws.com/sfb111/image_xlimage_2009_09_R367_Stuy_Town_20090910

Low income housing? http://www.petercoopernyc.com/availability.aspx

Incidentally, I feel that both Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town and other large scale housing projects are very often beautiful and soulful. Much more so than the sterile and literally soulless reservations for rich people being built everywhere nowadays.

[Hadashi No Gen]

This (Newark, NJ)...

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/457985/DSCF0868.jpg
source: www.sbnation.com


And this (Flint, MI)...

http://static.flickr.com/23/28259605_965822a33f_o.jpg
source: www.flikr.com

[Chapelo]

This turd in Downtown San Diego. It's a jail, so perhaps it's appropriate :haha:

http://www.top-city-photos.com/images/san-diego-central-jail.JPG
From http://www.top-city-photos.com/san-diego_city_photographs.htm

And yes, the WTC absolutely had a soul. Despite its featureless exterior, it was a teeming city within a city. Thousands of people daily working in its offices (myself included), eating at its restaurants, shopping at its stores, sleeping in its hotel. Hardly what I'd call "soulless".

[Dwils01]

And this (Flint, MI)...

http://static.flickr.com/23/28259605_965822a33f_o.jpg
source: www.flikr.com

I think this one is very fitting of the thread title, there's not a soul to be seen in this whole picture. Place looks like a ghost town.

[Hadashi No Gen]

I think this one is very fitting of the thread title, there's not a soul to be seen in this whole picture. Place looks like a ghost town.

The building itself has also not been occupied for years.

[brickell]

Here's a whole city of them.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6595647545_27b3cb9796_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-a-x/6595647545/)
Seadoo Skyline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-a-x/6595647545/) by J-a-x (http://www.flickr.com/people/j-a-x/), on Flickr

[PhillyToNYC]

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, but this thread is just a breeding ground for people to insult others.

[BoiseAirport]

Here are 3 soulless, depressingly bland examples from Boise I'd love to see erased from existence:

Grove Hotel/CenturyLink Arena absolutely kills the street level interaction on this block:
http://cls.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/1000000/70000/67000/66923/66923_10_b.jpg

Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown:
http://lombac.com/_assets/photo/projects/tmb/large/_1297019491IMG_0416.JPG

Civic Plaza Apartments:
http://propimages.apartments.com/117538/003/BL010132.JPG
http://www.emporis.com/images/show/514828-Large.jpg

[CGII]

People are picking on Stuy Town? That place rocks-I'd live there in a second. It's not really fair to just post the aerial view. Stuy Town is actually the one very strong example of a successful modernist urban planning scheme.

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_05_stuytownday.jpg
gothamist.com

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Stuyvesant-Town-Oval.JPG/800px-Stuyvesant-Town-Oval.JPG
wikipedia.org

[ThatOneGuy]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01563/vancouver-skyline_1563516c.jpg

All of Vancouver.

[xsoccerplayer18x]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01563/vancouver-skyline_1563516c.jpg

All of Vancouver.

^agreed

[jd3189]

Yep, I never got the hype about Vancouver's skyline or buildings. It's almost all similar shades of the same bland building design. The quality of life and the natural beauty of the city are the only things that make up for it.

[marvelfannumber1]

You know, i was about to say something but someone beat me to it.

I am going to nominate almost every skyscraper built after the 40s.

[Austinlee]

I personally can't find a single thing about brutalist buildings that I like. Russia seems to have the largest amount of downright ugly building stock. I have a hard time looking at city pics without getting depressed.

[jodelli]

Yep, I never got the hype about Vancouver's skyline or buildings. It's almost all similar shades of the same bland building design. The quality of life and the natural beauty of the city are the only things that make up for it.

The man made skyline is on the bland side unless you're at street level precisely because building something spectacular would be a waste of breath so to speak. Even the Burj would be dwarfed in this setting.

[The_Architect]

One Yonge Street in Toronto:

http://i.imgur.com/idkaBl.jpg
. (http://www.servicedofficereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/250px-One_Yonge_Street.jpg)

Worst part is.. this was once the only tall building on the lakefront.

[GeorgiaBoy24]

http://http://www.emporis.com/images/show/255687-Large.jpgStillwell Towers in Savannah. Bluh! Tallest in the city too. :yuck:

[GeorgiaBoy24]

:previous: How do I get the image shown? I tried copying and pasting the url.

[mdiederi]

:previous: How do I get the image shown? I tried copying and pasting the url.

You had an extra "http://" that was screwing up the url.

http://www.emporis.com/images/show/255687-Large.jpg
Stillwell Towers in Savannah. Bluh! Tallest in the city too. :yuck:

Wow! :yuck: is right!

[GeorgiaBoy24]

http://www.emporis.com/images/show/242996-Large.jpg
Here's another picture since the first one didn't show.

[ThatOneGuy]

^^ Don't use pictures from Emporis.

[photoLith]

is being recladded heres a pic

http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg
http://www.archpaper.com/uploads/image/Verizon.jpg

So is this ever going to happen?

[ThatOneGuy]

^^ Nope. Kinda happy it won't, actually. I like the current structure as it is.

[Yackemflaber69]

:koko:you crazy main:koko:

[MolsonExport]

Here's a real cutie from Kaliningrad (The House of Soviets), WARNING: not for the fainthearted!:
http://ysfine.com/world/baltic/kalin07.jpg
ysfine.com

[JManc]

love that building. that building say's "i'll break you" in ivan drago's voice

[Eidolon]

Here's a real cutie from Kaliningrad (The House of Soviets), WARNING: not for the fainthearted!:
http://ysfine.com/world/baltic/kalin07.jpg
ysfine.com

This is what used to exist here. :( :dead:
http://canitz.org/site/images/kb_castle_pond.jpg
http://canitz.org/site/images/kb_castle_pond.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ro_n8IMqtpA/Tfc22UEaVzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/UG17eN1HO04/s1600/450px-K%25C3%25B6nigsberg_Castle_courtyard.jpg
http://historyofkoenigsberg.blogspot.fi/2011/06/konigsberg-castle-to-middle-of-20th.html

The castle even survived the war and was not completely destroyed until 1969.
http://www.rudnikov.com/upload/2008/88/88-kenig-06.jpg
http://kaliningrad-eu.blogspot.fi/2010/07/konigsberg-castle-must-be-rebuilt.html

[Surrealplaces]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01563/vancouver-skyline_1563516c.jpg

All of Vancouver.

Agreed. Individually they are nice buildings, but they are all the same height and color and as a group looks like a modern version of Stuyvesant.

[Surrealplaces]

Beauty or soul is all in the eye of the beholder. I found Stuyvesant interesting but found the multiple number of identical buildings gave it a soulless feel. I noticed that it has a lot more life to it now, then it did when I first saw it in 1994, but still just from a looks perspective, it doesn't feel like much soul.

People are picking on Stuy Town? That place rocks-I'd live there in a second. It's not really fair to just post the aerial view. Stuy Town is actually the one very strong example of a successful modernist urban planning scheme.

[Surrealplaces]

I've never liked this Calgary office tower.

http://www.emporis.com/building/fifth-and-fifth-building-calgary-canada
http://www.emporis.com/images/show/292048-Large.jpg

[ThatOneGuy]

There are rumours that the building in Kaliningrad will be demolished for a replica of Konigsberg Castle.

[Mamiamato24]

Well from far, Place Ville Marie in Montreal is pretty soulless. It's probably the most noticeable building in Montreal's skyline, apart from Le 1000 De La Gauchetiere...... I just wish there were more.... "unique" buildings here... oh well :/

[ThatOneGuy]

I disagree. I love that building, designed by the great I.M. Pei! Don't see too many '+' shaped towers, often, either...

[Biff]

Here's a real cutie from Kaliningrad (The House of Soviets), WARNING: not for the fainthearted!:
http://ysfine.com/world/baltic/kalin07.jpg
ysfine.com


Your problem with this building is misguided in that it isn't a building at all. It is a transformer and it is just dormant waiting for a signal to awake and lay waste to all in its path..........either that or it is just ugly.

[Surrealplaces]

I love Place Ville Marie. One of my favorite buildings and one of the buildings that got me interested in skyscrapers as a youngster.

Well from far, Place Ville Marie in Montreal is pretty soulless. It's probably the most noticeable building in Montreal's skyline, apart from Le 1000 De La Gauchetiere...... I just wish there were more.... "unique" buildings here... oh well :/