The ugliest building in the world

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DanS
The Longaberger Basket Co. office building.

It's different

[Zevico]

The architects of that...thing...should be bound to chair and forced to look at it for the rest of their pathetic lives.

[DanS]

Oh come on now. It does have its own particular... charms. It's a spitting image of their very nice and expensive picnic basket.

[:) Smiley]

It's essentially a billboard with office space.

In general truly ugly buildings are those like tacky clothing designed to flaunt wealth with no regard of taste.

[Cort Haus]

It's obvious what the OP building is - an Extreme Ski-Jumping ramp.

[molly bloom]

The old Home Office, Queen Anne's Gate.

The kind of building that Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Lavrenti Beria and J Edgar Hoover could have wet dreams about.

Smack dab in the midst of conservation areas, near a World Heritage site, overlooking Royal Parks and cheek by jowl with listed buildings that it does nothing for except to cast a long Brutalist depressing shadow over, especially in a grim grey British February.


Ghastly- should be demolished, preferably with notably crap Home Secretaries immured inescapably within- and that includes Jugears Clarke.

[Thue]

Originally posted by DanS
I don't know whether this freakshow near my hometown is genius or the ugliest office building in the world.

The Longaberger Basket Co. office building.

Yes it is ugly - but interesting. Much preferable to ugly and uninteresting buildings. Even preferable to neutral and uninteresting buildings IMO. ~~~~

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Jonny
I nominate this hideous mid-rise from Louisville:

It is only surpassed in ugliness by the millions of boxes constructed across the country for several decades. Hell, at least with that building you know where the hell you are.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Colon
Here's an ugly ****er:

Not really that bad.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Colon
Or this one. This would make a terrific background in a surrealist painting, but as an actual building it's ludicrous.



Just look at that portal, what the hell were they thinking.

I love it. What sort of building do you consider attractive?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
City Hall in Boston. Gross.

Yea, it is gross. At least they tried something different though. Sometimes things have never been done before for a good reason though.

[molly bloom]

Somewhere you'd expect to find dying drug addicts overdosing, or the mentally ill finally despairing of existence.

No, not Tory Party H.Q., but Newport:

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by molly bloom
The old Home Office, Queen Anne's Gate.

The kind of building that Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Lavrenti Beria and J Edgar Hoover could have wet dreams about.

Smack dab in the midst of conservation areas, near a World Heritage site, overlooking Royal Parks and cheek by jowl with listed buildings that it does nothing for except to cast a long Brutalist depressing shadow over, especially in a grim grey British February.


Ghastly- should be demolished, preferably with notably crap Home Secretaries immured inescapably within- and that includes Jugears Clarke.

Someone ought to point out to them that they could knock it down and start again

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


I love it. What sort of building do you consider attractive?

Yes, I've always liked the Sagrada Familia.


It's architecture as fun as well as being functional. It does remind me not so much of European buildings, but of these types of buildings:

[Urban Ranger]

This is the Kowloon Central Library, quite ugly in its own right