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Old Posted Apr 9, 2012, 5:16 AM
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What a flimsy list, none of those are worth mentioning on a "worst of" compilation. The Orbit tower is an exciting piece of modern engineering. And that public housing is fantastic. Better than most smaller public housing projects.
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Old Posted Apr 9, 2012, 6:00 AM
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These are not terrible.
Neither are the camouflage-spotted towers in Nanterre.

The camouflage is actually an interesting idea, because it means the government agency that maintains the buildings never has to worry about matching the old paint colors when they do patch jobs. They can just add a new one and nobody will ever notice.
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Old Posted Apr 9, 2012, 6:43 AM
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How does a building like #15 make the list? I like it, very futuristic with those windmills up there.
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Old Posted Apr 9, 2012, 12:37 PM
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Another one of these threads...

"Ugly" is as subjective as 'Beauty" Times change, style changes, and what peole think is lovely one day is ugly the next. (cough Brutalism cough)

Many on the list I would not consider "Ugly"
Garish? Over the top? Pompus? Out of place?
Oh MY Yes!
But Ugly? Let us give a run down...

21: Ugly? Perhaps.. It strikes me as "Modern Art" which usually means something made to look 'ugly' on purpose. So nothing shocking about it.

20: A Big Boring Box of boring concreate from the 70's. "I" think it is ugly by default. But it is no worse then dozens of others that look just as bad. It's WORST crime however is its location. A huge slab of cocnreate blocking some of the best views of the brooklyn bridge.

19: Never things that... thing.. before.
Ugly? If you consider it "art" it is rather nice. It strikes me as a bit much, garish, and something built by some smary architect most like "just because he could"

18:Once again NOT ugly.
It actually harkens back to the day when many buildings were built to look like things. It is actually a refreshing bit of whimsey I can apprciate.

17: I'll be bloody blunt.
I don't know what to make of it. It is a television tower, it looks like a tower and that is about all I can make of it. I can only assume something about "Crawling babies' must offend.

16: Ah. Here we go...
This, grey, drab pillar, begins to creep across from 'Boring' into the ugly camp. It seems to have no life in it, no style. It is a big boring pillar with nothing of note on it. Still it is 'just' ugly.

15: How very... Modern...
Bah, I don't like it, but as a"modern" building it fits in just right with all these bloody architects who seem to think 'modern' buildings need to look like Hollywoods idea of "The Future" from 90's sci-fi movies.

14: Again, very modern.
It is a geometric shape. I actually admire whoever had the balls to design that and get it built. not much else to say.

13:Ah this thing...
I have seen this listed in many "Ugly" threads. And I'll will be hounest it does rub me the wrong way. It is garish, over the top, pompos, looks like it belongs in Vegas. And that is the thing. Many of these buildigns in the right context fit right in. If this WAS in Vegas, no one would think twice about it. Let alone call it "ugly"

BAH! And I will have to finish later, goign to be late to the office.
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Old Posted Apr 9, 2012, 1:18 PM
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Kaden tower for sure.

And Genex towers in Belgrade.

And Crystal at the ROM in Toronto.

Tower of the Soviets in Kaliningrad, Russia
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I will not comment on all of these structures but many do not belong on the list.

20: The Verizon Building
While not by a longshot my favorite building, I like the simple vertical emphasis. It may be boring but it is not particularly ugly.

18: The Longaberger Basket Company building
Since when is a picnic basket ugly? Please transfer this from the list of "Ugliest Buildings:" to the list of "Silliest Buildings". One could consider the Elephant building in this way as well.

17: The Žižkov Television Tower.
While it is completely out of scale with its surroundings (a less obtrusive trusswork tower with guywires might have been better), I kind of like it. It looks like a slim rocket (and its service tower) at Kennedy Space Center.

15: Strata SE1
This structure is kind of cool actually despite the similarity to a Norelco Rotary Shaver. Some locals have apparently nick-named it Isengard presumably for the points on either side (and the fact that Isengard is easier to say than Barad-dur).

2. Ryugyong hotel
This amazing and futuristic looking structure is not ugly. This one jumped out as the least deserving to membership of this list. People often graft ugliness onto it from the regime under which it was built. Can evil create beauty? Look upon many of the treasures of the past for your answer.
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13:Ah this thing...
I have seen this listed in many "Ugly" threads. And I'll will be hounest it does rub me the wrong way. It is garish, over the top, pompos, looks like it belongs in Vegas. And that is the thing. Many of these buildigns in the right context fit right in. If this WAS in Vegas, no one would think twice about it. Let alone call it "ugly"
Hey you have a good eye and you'll be happy to know that this building is located in the 'Vegas of the Orient' - Macau, China - which is now the gambling capital of the world, superseding Las Vegas in gambling revenue. Not surprising most of big casino operators from Nevada have exported their 'classy' brand of themed hotel-shopping mall-casinos to Macau.
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Old Posted Apr 20, 2012, 12:27 PM
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Hey you have a good eye and you'll be happy to know that this building is located in the 'Vegas of the Orient' - Macau, China - which is now the gambling capital of the world, superseding Las Vegas in gambling revenue. Not surprising most of big casino operators from Nevada have exported their 'classy' brand of themed hotel-shopping mall-casinos to Macau.
HA!
I thought as much. Doesn't surprise me a bit, there is a reason "Most" buildings look a certain way. Vegas has become THE symbol of how Casions "should" look. Many the world over seem to think they need to make something look big, flashy, and pompos in order to be a Casino these days.

There are however some Native American Casino's out in the west that buck this trend, for the most part...
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None of the London buildings on the list are as bad as your average apartment block by the Thames.


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Strata may not be the most tasteful building in the world, but I love the way the turbines and the barcode pop up unexpectedly in various different places





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That building is Kosovo is cool.
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Old Posted Apr 20, 2012, 3:05 PM
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HA THIS should be good!
Another perfect examle of why 'Ugly" is subjective.

My dear Bedhead, please enlighten me how that apartment complex is in your eyes "Ugly" ? A bit bland yes, but between the brick work, the rounded arches and windows, and pointed old classical roofs, it is leaps and bounds beyond countless other boring bland complexes I have seen.

Do tell me why it is so unforgivable!
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Old Posted Apr 20, 2012, 3:28 PM
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I agree....that's not a bad apartment bedhead. It's not a masterpiece, and it's a little ungainly, but it's better than many. Brick, white trim, and a little detailing can solve many ills.
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Old Posted Apr 20, 2012, 4:26 PM
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I don't mind 19, 15, 13, or 2. The rest are very ugly. Ugliest in the world? Maybe, maybe not, but definitely very ugly.
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't mind most of those buildings. Yes a few ugly ones, but I've seen uglier buildings all over the world that aren't in that list.
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God, people are idiots. MVRDV and Anish Kapoor are all stars in the world of design. Whatever...
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God, people are idiots. MVRDV and Anish Kapoor are all stars in the world of design. Whatever...
Do you really think that has anything to do with what's ugly or not? Or that any of this is objective? Who's the idiot?
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None of the London buildings on the list are as bad as your average apartment block by the Thames.


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This is really nice actually. How is it ugly?
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The proportions and scale are out of whack compared to buildings that would traditionally feature that kind of ornamentation. The tower portion in particular was very poorly thought out in terms of composition of details and massing. It's quite awkward I think. Simply put, that building doesn't follow the guidelines for an aesthetically pleasing building that would be applied to buildings that typically have those details. It has failed at being a historically accurate building, and since that was really the only thing it offered to the view, it has failed as a part of the city's built form.

Not the ugliest building in the world, but certainly not beautiful and definitely nothing to be proud of. Its mediocre at best. The multiple gable ended wings that repeat themselves on the left of the photo are almost as weird looking as the tower behind them. It really is the tower that brings so much attention to it. If the tower wasn't there, it probably wouldn't be as jarring, but the massing is still pretty screwed up. Either the architect didn't understand classical and gothic proportions, or they didn't care to take advantage of them.

Those who like it probably only like it because they see old-looking architectural details and think they're pretty. It's really just lipstick on a badly proportioned pig.

The interiors could either be really nice or really bad. I've seen examples both. Thankfully it is typically the former so at least the people living there aren't suffering too much. (I mean, the floor plans are really bad, but at least the cupboards and floors aren't as poorly executed as the massing and details of the exterior.)
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Yet it still does a better job than a hell of a lot of buildings that architects love.
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Yet it still does a better job than a hell of a lot of buildings that architects love.
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Half the buildings on the list aren't even bad looking.

I suspect the list targets these specific buildings solely due to them making a bold visual statement. I can point out dozens of uglier buildings in a few square blocks of downtown Montreal or vancouver or Toronto or any city in the world.
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