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Are these the ugliest buildings in the world?


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21: The ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower at the London 2012 Olympic Park. Designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond and due to open this year.






20: The Verizon Building or 375 Pearl in New York City. Designed by Rose, Beaton & Rose and opened in 1975.






19: Aldar headquarters building in Abu Dhabi. Designed by MZ Architects and opened in 2010. This coin-shaped building is the world's first circular skyscraper.






18: The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio. Opened in 1997.






17: The Žižkov Television Tower in Prague, Czech Republic. Designed by Václav Aulický and Jiří Kozák and completed in 1992. The tower is adorned with sculptures of crawling babies.






16: Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg, the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa, at 54 storeys. Designed by Manfred Hermer and completed in 1975.






15: Strata SE1 in Elephant & Castle, London. Designed by BFLS and completed in 2010.






14: The National Library of Belarus in Minsk. Dersigned by Mihail Vinogradov and Viktor Kramarenko and opened in 2006.







13: Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macau. Designed by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man and opened in 2007.






12: The Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava. This inverted pyramid was designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling and it was completed in 1983.






11: The Elephant Building in Bangkok, Thailand. Designed by Sumet Jumsai and completed in 1997.






10: The SIS Building in Vauxhall, London, also known as the MI6 Building. The headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service was designed by Terry Farrell and opened in 1994.






9: The Mirador Building in Madrid. Designed by Dutch architecture studio MVRDV in collaboration with the Spanish architect Blanca Lleó and opened in 2005.






8: Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. Designed by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart. Opened in 2002.






7: The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Christ the King in Liverpool. Designed by Frederick Gibberd and opened in 1967.






6: The Russian embassy in Havana, Cuba. Designed by Alexander G Rochegov, and opened in 1985.





5: The Tours Aillaud (also known as Tours Nuages) in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France. Designed by Emile Aillaud and built in 1977.






4: The Fang Yuan Building in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Designed by CY Lee, who fused together the idea of an old Chinese coin, complete with square cut-outs, with a contemporary modern office block. Opened in 2001.






3: The National Library in Pristina, Kosovo. Designed by Croatian architect Andrija Mutnjakovic and opened in 1982.






2: The 105-storey Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. Designed by Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers. Construction began in 1987 and stopped between 1992 and 2008. Exterior work is now complete, but it is not known if it will ever open.






1: Torre Velasca in Milan, Italy. Designed by the BBPR architectural partnership and built in the 1950s.