Pretty much anything that Hundertwasser designed is hideous. Vienna Austria also has a Hundertwasser house. My wife likes his work but I think it just looks like a pile of junk.

these buildings are fun and interesting. you have no taste.

You forgot to swear in #8.

fuck

I think the regularity which which you view the Hotel Piccadilly has skewed your impression of it. One of the ugliest buildings in the world ? Come on.

I’m a manchester resident, (although I don’t work in the city centre) and I think it has a kind of 70’s charm that is fast disappearing.

The building has a brash self-assurance that you rarely see in modern buildings. As other modern buildings have grown up around it, I find myself quite taken with its arrogant incongruity. It’ss out-of-placeness is a welcome relief from the blandness of subsequent architecture in the city, particularly that of the 80’s and early 90’s.

While I’m relieved that this style of architecture has fallen into disuse, I think a few surviving examples are a welcome addition to the city’s skyline. And I can’t help wondering if people will be complaining about the stunning Beetham Tower by the year 2037.

oliver - so do you like the building’s incongruity and self-assurance or the design itself? i agree that old architectural styles should be seen every now and then, i just think this particular example is aesthetically awful.

I personally think Taipei 101 is a great-looking building for many reasons, but you’re spot-on with the other 9.

Come to think of it, though, Ryugyong Hotel might have looked good finished with lots of glass, nice grounds, etc.

May I also nominate Robarts Libary at University of Toronto in Canada?

It’s shaped like a giant peacock. Ugh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robarts_Library
http://content.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/

wow, that peacock library is pretty hideous.

manchester Beetham Tower
Maybe not top ten ugly, but close.
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/imagesall.php?idi=Beetham%2BTower%2BManchester&ref=132&selfidi=132BeethamTowerManchester_pic1.jpg&self=nse&no=1&x=68&y=82

Only one is in the US? I imagine this list could get bigger really quick.

ESB Head Office, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland. Salmon-pink 1970s offices.
It would be a bit of an eyesore no matter what, but when you realise what they destroyed to build it…

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/fitzwilliam_street/esb.html

“The Georgian vista that existed till then consisted of almost a mile of continuous houses passing through two squares. Between the two squares, the ESB removed almost the whole left hand side of Fitzwilliam Street to build their headquarters, a very poor example of modern architecture”

Would be more convincing if you included more justification and an occasional pressing of the shift-key.

3/10.

steve - hehe! never heard the shift-key comment before.

Sarcasm noted and appreciated.

Stumbled to your site from a link on reddit.com and am otherwise impressed.

thanks. appreciation noted and appreciated.

These buildings are awesome and unique. Thanks for compiling a list of such awesome buildings, there should be more…

You have no idea what kind of bland, cookie-cutter world most of us live in. You should learn to appreciate the bizarre and the ambitious for what it is, and not try to make everything look the same.

i wouldn’t want every building to look the same. i would, however, like every building to look attractive.

and there’s nothing ambitious about making an ugly building.

taipei101 is depressed right now and slitting its wrists. Poor building.

nate, just because something is unique doesn’t make it aesthetically pleasing. Rosey O’donnel is one of a kind but I’d hate to see that face every morning.

In reply, I think the Piccadilly building is far from the worst architecture in Manchester. You may hate it, but some people like it. Many modern buildings are impossible to like or dislike. They’re just … there.

I don’t agree that the building is aesthetically awful. I like the look of it. It’s just out of time.

many thanks,

ol

Hasn’t anyone seen the EMP in Seattle? It looks like a ball of chewed gum on some metallic acid trip.

I hate the stupid Rock Museum in Seattle. It looks like a junk heap, and adding injury to insult, its metal roof/side/whatever reflects the sun very sharply and hurts my eyes if I don’t wear sunglasses while enjoying my deck in the afternoons. I hate this building.

The picture in this URL actually makes it look better than it really looks.

http://www.seattleattractions.com/emp.html

This one gives a few different views: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_Music_Project

I must also nominate the Experience Music Project in Seattle.

A truly more hideous building I have never seen.

I think every one of these buildings is fabulous. Welcome to the 21st century.

I think the Russians in general have a lot to answer for. One of the most disgusting buildings I’ve ever seen has to be the House of Soviets in Kaliningrad:

http://www.archinect.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_soviets.jpg

But incredibly they seem to have actually done some work on it and it looks a lot better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dom_sovetov_kaliningrad.jpg

So there’s always hope….

this is a very sad list. of all the horribly ugly buildings in the world, you choose 7 decided ‘non-eyesores.’

you want an eyesore? try the pan-am building, which blocks what would otherwise be the most spectacular view in manhattan. or the seagrams building, which inspired the entire ‘glass and steel tower thrown up in 20 minutes’ movement. or the hartford courant building.

you lack taste.

james, i don’t lack taste. my taste just differs from yours.

you say ‘decided non-eyesores’ - who decided? let me know which authority.

I think those are some pretty impressive examples, but I think the EMP in Seattle deserves to be added without doubt. I don’t know if the Picadilly hotel is *that* ugly, but I completely agree about Taipei 101.
I actually kinda like the elephant building. Without the base, it would go well in La Defense. The surroundings here seem pretty crappy.
To see a building design based on a little kid’s sketches of spacecraft, visit the UC San Diego central library:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Geisel_library.jpg

I actually like most Hundertwasser — not this building but still. Also I do like the elephant building, from an it’s interesting to see aspect. Overall not too bad a list but I agree with whoever it was above (wait a sec) James, who noted the fact that there are many worse building. I’d rather see some of these than some of the mac mansions that have been thrown up in areas they shouldn’t. I do agree about the westin — it makes me nuts.

I like a lot of the buildings, but would disagree with other’s comments on liking the elephant building. I did think that one was ugly. Green Citadel would look better if it was green, instead of that pink color. It would be a cool building to have surrounded by trees in the woods or a forrest. I think that Taipei one is the best building on the list and I mean best by “it looks good” and it’s not “ugly”.

I’m terribly sorry, but this post of you almost made me unsubscribe your beloved feed, deputygod. I fear you’ve not at all in architecture or in taste for architecture.

Please try to be more careful when posting about topics you can’t cover as well as you’ll do, I hope, for many manu other great posts, with your favourite ones.

those buildings are awesome. they’re innovative and new. just cause they’re different doesn’t mean they’re ugly. i like em.

Fun fact:
The Ryugyong building in Pyongyang was originally intended to be the biggest hotel in the world. Then they (the party leaders, city planners, etc.) realized it was kind of pointless to build a large hotel IN NORTH KOREA.
So, they just kind of… quit.

taste. it are all about taste.
some folks like rhubarb, some dasn’t.
tho, i is gotta mit, they is a lot a rhubarb amongst them there buildings.

You have no sense of style whatsoever. I think you should consult the reasoning behind some of these designs as they were in most cases the main driving force. Taipei 101 is an exceptional work of Architecture, not because it appeals to stupid ignorant dumbasses such as yourself, but because it appeals to the people of Taiwan. North Korea, Kim’s driving force was not appeal, as you can see by the way he runs his country, but “greatness”. He set out to build the most expensive, largest hotel. And in the process failed?

So before you post idiotic comments, A. Do some research, and B. Stay in school cause your grammar is that of a 5 year old stepping into first grade.

Umm, you forgot to take just about anything Frenk Gehry has spewed out upon this world. Like the Bilbao Museum. It makes me want to wretch. The only reason it was built was so it could house and even larger, uglier piece of artwork.

See the monstrosity here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao

I nominate the Portland Building (yes, that’s really it’s name)
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Portland_Building.html/cid_1109295603_Portland_Building_noid.html

Boston’s city hall belongs on this list.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Boston_City_Hall.JPG/800px-Boston_City_Hall.JPG

Do you have comments on what I have always considered to be a very ugly building: The new Ontario College of Art and Design - exhibits neither art or design in my opinion

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelclesle/44325593/

numbers 8 and 2 show a willingness to experiment, i’d personally take them off the list … the others are absolutely hideous. great list.

hideous but interesting experiments or “masterpieces” of architects with clearly VERY limited imagination. for me hundertwasser certainly has no place in this list, let alone come first.

Virginia Center of Innovative Technology
Herndon, VA
http://www.tws-usa.com/images/portfolio/virginia_center1.jpg

Number 4. from Pyoongyangying has THE MOST BAD VIBES I’ve ever felt… from a building period!! Could you imagine having a condo in that? Yuck! Where are the trees or flowers outside?… Oh thats right, the good people of N.Korea ate the bark off the trees and they were all chopped for fire wood. It looks like the spear-tip of demon-ocracy.

Number 3 from Bank-kok… riiiiggggghhht… It seems like the buildings in front don’t fit in, as if from another century. Hmmmmmm… possibly demolish those and put something fitting in there, like some more giant lego animals.

Number 2. Neo York… in 20 years it will be another icon… we must be patient with architectural disasters. Everyone hated the Twin Towers… but loved them and missed them when they were gone.

Number 1. Magdeburger Monstrosity. Huntertwasser should have stuck to his day job as a painter.

My vote goes to Number 4. Just on sheer vibes alone.

aww, what’s wrong with 101? the design was partly out of necessity (the boxes stacked on boxes) to the very real possibility of earthquakes in taipei, and 101 has a massive damper ball, stabilizing beams that go into the bedrock and other engineering features that made the once-tallest building in the world possible in that area. maybe its aesthetic isn’t that important; it is an office building, after all.

You’re being rather bitchy and culturally ignorant about your analysis.

torre velasca is basically an inverted Gothic cathedral. The color is a neutral color, because, if you analyzed the general color of the city behind it, the city’s colors trend towards earthtones. Architecture is designed to blend, not clash, and these two features you whine about are, in fact, blending features.

taipei 101 - The “staggered” feature that you refer to ignorantly is actually a culturally significant feature. It’s found both in the fighting weapons history of China, as well as in ancient building design. There’s a hell of a lot more about the design that you ignored that is culturally significant to the Chinese. See if any of this will clue you in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101

hotel sofitel is also a design that shares its design with the cultural history of Japan, and specifically Japanese temples. You seem to have no issue insulting the hotel, want to be consistent and insult the cultural history of Japan as well?

This picture of the building doesn’t do it justice, either, try this photo:

http://arch.cside.com/t021110/sofitel04.jpg

“instead of a tusk it seems they decided to give it a beak”

Oh.. and don’t forget the giant mutant leg attached to its face. Your entire analysis of this building focuses on the animal-like features, and you clearly ignore the significance of the design.

You think this building is a stain? And yet you totally ignore the rampant poverty and shanty towns, which are the real stain on humanity because they are signs of poverty. Nobody in this building goes hungry at night, which makes it either a sign of the wealth divide when you contrast it with much of the rest of the city.

also, ride the 101’s world’s-fastest elevator up to the 89th floor observation deck to see only *part* of the expanse of taipei and tell me that you don’t have an appreciation for the building.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7876330@N05/728423898/

a fun list deputydog but really truly seriously I suggest that you either start using capitals or go all the way toward unreadability and eliminate punctuation as well whattheheckspacesarefairgametooasfarasimconcerned

Gotta disagree with most of these.
That your discouraging people from being creative and trying something new really sucks in my opinion.
You state your opinion as though it is fact. Just want to remind you that its not, and that most of the people who come to read this post wont know who you are, or think anything of your opinion.
Time to get off your high-horse?

5. hotel sofitel, tokyo - WOW. Where did they get the giant Lego pieces. I think my son built a version of that when he was 3.

I like most of those buildings. Some are excentric, yes but also suggestive. I think you need to open up your mind more. If it wasn’t for innovation in architecture we’d still be living in caves.
I bet you’d dislike the NY Guggenheim if you didn’t know who built it.

“Objects resembling animals should not exceed a certain size.”

That would make a great t-shirt.

Damn, I love some of those ugly concrete boxes. The North Korean one rocks!

I laughed through almost all the buildings you described. priceless. I think the most horrific one was the Russian embassy in Havana. Great read, thanks!

guys– it’s a blog, the matter-of-fact tone should be expected but not taken seriously. Otherwise, stop visiting the site.

I suggest you to check some of NYC subway stations for repulsive places…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/somenoise/137505071/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somenoise/137504853/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alphakilo2bravo/223141537/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/484652154/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tozzer/157659644/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deirmaho/132681881/

I’d like to nominate MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo).

http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~btco/fotografia/fotos-u/02-SaoPaulo/orig/masp-perto.jpg

Just look at it. u_u

you’ve somehow managed to find a shot of the NYC building that makes it look less repulsive than it is. it truly looks much worse in person.

frank gehry’s iac headquarters in nyc is pretty ugly too:
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/iac%20building.png

look at that Sofitel hotel from front. its worst:
http://www.sofitel.com/sofitel/fichehotel/gb/sof/1939/fiche_hotel.shtml

#2 is beautiful (westin hotel in new york). i don’t see how you can even begin to include it in the list.

This is a message for Volker. Before you criticise somebody’s grammar you should proof read your own. “Architecture” in your post does not warrant a capital letter. “cause” is not a word in the context in which you have used it. The comma after “North Korea” makes no sense. Finally, no sentence should begin with the word “and”.
I suggest you take your own advice.

Taipei 101 = chop suey boxes tower!

[quote] secondly, it’s wearing a belt… [/quote] That line kills me. Great post, incredibly funny. ;-P

The building in Manchester is being rebuilt at the moment. The council have been aware of its ugliness for a long time. Unfortunately, the Arndale Centre tower is staying put, which is arguably just as bad!

I am amazed that the Scottish Parliament building didn’t make this list. It cost 430 million pounds and looks like a dog’s breakfast. The worst part is that it’s situated on one end of the Royal Mile, next to some of the most beautiful old buildings in the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edinburgh_Scottish_Parliament01_2006-04-29.jpg
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/scottishparliament/scotparl4.jpg

Have you even been to Taipei 101? It has eight sections and did you know that 8 is a lucky number in their culture. Turn it over 90 degrees and you get the infinity symbol, which is meant to be for good fortune. It’s an incredible building and the detail is amazing close up. Plus, the floor plates, from what I understand, are very effective for clients. So I disagree with you on that one. There’s a lot of meaning behind it.

Hundertwasser houses are built for the residents, who I think you’ll have to admit are very, very happy with them. They’re certainly far nicer than any other modern apartment buildings I’ve ever seen, with gardens in alternating apartments and on roofs, multiple courtyards on different floors, windows in all apartments on at least 2 sides.

The Vienna Hundertwasserhaus has almost zero turnover, and boasts happier residents than any other building its size in the city, according to an biannual survey of both coop and private apartments.

I agree with you about all the others, but I’ve always found the organic, relaxed qualities of Hundertwasser buildings refreshing and very pleasant.

I enjoyed your list and think much of the critical commentary is off base. Creativity is not an adequate reason for what the architecture world often foists upon us. Nor do I believe we should have to research a building to accurately assess it. The intentionality of a design is not transparent to the viewer; for us, the building is only what we see.

There is one building you are missing. The University of Toronto library is one of the most repulsive for sure:

http://www.citynoise.org/upload/5767.jpg

I think it’s hilarious how vexed some people get over an opinion! Come on, criticizing someone for their grammar on a free page blog!? Some of you people in these comments need girlfriends, or just friends would help, seriously! Good post man, although i actually quited liked the Russian building?! Must be some good ass weed I’m smokin’!???!?!

Peace!

Add the Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD in Tornto to the list:

http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/sharpe-centre/sharpe-centre1.html

While they aren’t exactly the “ugliest” bulidings, I think that the numerous formed and painted concrete condominium buildings in Chicago’s River North area are worthy of mention. They are big and awful. And they are a sin in a city that still likes to tout its great architecture.
I mention specifically:
The Grand Plaza towers
The Pinnacle
The Fordham
The Millennium Centre
55 East Ohio

Then there’s the hideous Shoreham in Lakeshore East, now thankfully surrounded by less hideous, but undistinguished buildings.

You made me laugh real hard!

If these architectural structures are ugly or not, is of little importance to me: this post is way too funny to spoil it with counterattack.

Greetings from Mexico, deputydog.

i quite liked this one ” 8. taipei 101, taipei, taiwan ” and oddly enough this one “4. ryugyong hotel, pyongyang, north korea” just because there kinda quirky although i wouldnt like to live opposite them

1. green citadel, madgeburg, germany had to be the worse for me by far what were they thinking of when they painted it !!! although i imagine it could look ok if it was all stonework an without them odd bits at the top

funny, I’m reading “the Fountainhead” right now..

I rather like #4 and #2.

D-dog you need to analyse how you assess a building: you use ‘aesthetically pleasing’ as if it was an objective matter, rather than your opinion. To my mind the ugliest building in London, for example, is Buckingham Palace: a dull slab of crappy classicism. Your opinion, then, is to me old-fashioned, and philistine.

bosko - you’re wrong on every point.

first off, i don’t need to analyse how i assess a building. i either like it or i don’t.

secondly, the only time i mentioned aesthetics was in the following line…

“i just think this particular example is aesthetically awful”…

notice the words ‘i’ and ‘think’. how’s that objective?

thirdly, what’s old-fashioned about disliking certain buildings? do modern people not do that?

Oops!
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=9714

I think you do not have any taste at all… First qustion do you have any particular interest for architecture? If the answer is No… i will put a final point to this statement. If you have interest for such a theme,next time please check the artistic background and the principles of some the examples you show off.

By the way do you know Gaudi?
The only thing that makes me mad… is ignorance. Study some more.

eduardo - you’re not making much sense there.

yes, i do have an interest in architecture.

yes, i know of gaudi. and?

i don’t like the buildings i’ve shown, end of story. take your head out of your arse.

Wow - some harsh criticism in these comments. It’s a blog - to me that doesn’t require a statement that this is the author’s opinion. Anyway, I thought it was a fun list and some truly hideous buildings. I also enjoyed the other ugly pictures people posted. Definitely a lovely way to spend some free time.

Deputy-dog, haven’t you been to Denver? The Denver Post is wrongly boasting that their fair city doesn’t have one of the nine ugliest buildings.

Oh, common now! If this launchpad that hosted the G-8 a few years ago isn’t one of the nine, it certainly takes runner-up! It’s worse than the Pompideau Center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Public_Library

And if anyone has a shot of the Douglas County Courthouse in Castle Rock, post it here!

Oh, and did I fail to include this Denver paper plane next door?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Art_Museum

I find it funny that people who read blogs don’t seem to understand that they are reading someone’s opinions. Why are you even reading this blog if you are so upset by this person’s opinions? I don’t always agree with it, but really some of the comments are just rude. Just stop reading.

Moving on…The O2/Millenium Dome should be added to the list. It looks like a hedgehog from Super Mario Bros or something.

http://www.theo2.co.uk/web/guest/tour

man no. 1 looks like it is coming straight after earthquake. totally disgusting.

wow nice shit buildings

ever been to the Denver Airport, nice building, great art

I gotta agree with all of them except the North Korean building. It has a strange beauty to it.

I think you’re a spaz. Most of these buildings are incredible (apart from the tallest building in the world, its built by ego and is ridiculous from all angles) But buildings don’t have to appeal to you personally, so its fine for you to have an opinion - but considering the internet is full of so much crap it would be nice for you to have an informed opinion - it doesn’t take a genius to understand the thinking behind the Russian building in Havana. Think Soviet. Think Panoptican. Not everything placed on this earth is for you, or for your senses - most often, buildings are making statements. Some make statements that are obviously garish and needy, some make statements of look how rich we are, others make statements that have an undercurrent of public control and a desire to oversee the going-ons of ordinary people.

anna, thanks for calling me a spaz. it’s one of my favourite insults and is much under-used.

you don’t get it though. i couldn’t care less about the thinking behind the buildings - they look awful. also, you have no idea whether i’m ‘informed’ or not based on my least favourite architecture. stop trying to look for depth that doesn’t exist in my choices. it’s all about aesthetics.

Come to Coventry UK. Almost anything here would easily quailfy.

This list was fun, dawgy, thank ye for the entertainment. Now I’m having fun imagining some kind of apocalyptic death city which has all of these buildings situated within it combined with Mauro’s subway stations for the discerning commuter! The only shops I would allow are Starbucks and Burberry.

I love ugly building lists, they always contain the most amazing man-made monstrosities!
People may say they are utilitarian or inhuman - but there’s nothing more human than a hideous concrete mess! The fact that this post has created such a response is really a homage to, rather than a condemnation of this architecture. If it provokes a strong emotional response (positive or negative) then it is doing its job - so much urban development is boring and repetitive - one almost longs for an eyesore!

http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/cumbernauld_centre_photos.htm

This has to be one of the ugliest buildings in Britain - and yet I can’t help but like it. There is a hidden beauty in ugliness, a hidden wisdom in folly. Before anyway decides to lay into me as much as they have into deputydog, may I also point out that this a subjective opinion. As is everything!

the designers of some of these buildings have been playing tetris too long

you clearly don’t like post modernism, I can empathise with your hatred as it’s slightly childish to replicate past buildings. Although saying that, variation makes the world more interesting. If function was prioritised in every design project planet earth would be a very dull place.

I’ll let you have your comments on most of these bulidings (although personally I don’t think they are too bad and can think of much worse). However I’m a bit disappointed about your disgust for the Green Citadel in Magdeburg because it’s an accommodation block. I live in a horrible grey 70s local authority building. It’s a depressing place to look at so not much better to live in. At least the architects of the Citadel attempted to make the living space for numerous people slightly more adventurous and unique. I for one would rather live there than in a drab grey building with absolutely no character.

اگر اینها ساختمان هستند پس بقیه چی هستند دم معمارانشان گرم

I think these architects have been playing with Legos for too long. Some of them look like they were made with an erector set.

You know you are so right. Who on Earth gives out the contracts for such crap if not the morons working in local government offices.
What the hell do they know of creativity,culture, art or anything else but the likelyhood of getting a backhander from the developer.
Subjective as it is architecture should reflect the aspirations of the local community. But when I think about it perhaps Mancunians deserve it. North Koreans deserve. Americans certainly do.
One of the worst eyesore buildings is in Taby outside Stockholm, Sweden. I dont have a picture of it, my camera refused to work on such crap. Those calling themselves architects and designers with no empathy or ethos should be made to live in the crap they create. Those that give it the nod on our behalf should get themselves a proper job.
Thanks for the say. The Baldchemist

I switched from architecture to landscape at year 2 because the whole of year 1 was devoted to the slavish worship (brainwashing) of Rogers/Foster/Arup who - between them - seem to be responsible for most of our major carbuncles.

You only have to contemplate the history of the Millennium Bridge, it’s over engineered cables (they have a similar diameter to the cables on the Severn Bridge) and ugly piers and vibration problems after opening (how could they end up with Tacoma Narrows syndrome in the age of CAD?) and then contrast with the bridge Santiago Calatrava proposed back in the early nineties to realise we’re worshipping guys who are too far up their own arseholes on self-promoted ‘celebrity’.

Check out the Anacapa and Santa Cruz dorms at the southeast side of the UC Santa Barbara campus. I lived in Anacapa and we always referred to it as the Nazi dorm! Ditto to what Erica said earlier: “Oops!”

http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/images/aw_pdfs/UCSB_campus_june07.pdf

WILL- HOW can you list the Denver Public Library and the Fred Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum and skip over the original Denver Art Museum building (still standing unfortunately). http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m270.htm

Gio Ponti must have been out-Soviet the Soviets in creating this drab, imposing, and just plain uninviting monster. Uggh.

Nice blog though.

And don’t forget the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Although it certainly acts as a deterrent to crime.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dcook%2Bcounty%2Bjail%26y%3DSearch%26sado%3D1%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501%26b%3D19%26ni%3D18&w=376&h=500&imgurl=static.flickr.com%2F24%2F62064194_edd74f922c_m.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F41894171796%40N01%2F62064194%2F&size=88.7kB&name=62064194_edd74f922c.jpg&p=cook+county+jail&type=jpeg&no=36&tt=461&oid=fd39f9c542abb63e&fusr=Jesse1&tit=Cook+County+Jail&hurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F41894171796%40N01%2F&ei=UTF-8&src=p

Harbour Centre tower is by far, the ugliest building in Vancouver. It’s ruined our skyline for 30 years. It looks like a child’s spinning top ready to topple off the builing into the ocean.. I wish it would!

Check out the Tricorn Center, The Fugliest Thing Ever!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn_Centre

You are an idiot.

First off, you have no respect for the work of others.

Second, if you cannot express your opinion without swearing or repeating the same three words to describe 9 buildings, then you obviously lack creativity and intelligence.

I like building 2 - I don’t really see what’s wrong with it. Honestly the ugliest one is the Russian embassy in Cuba - in terms of color (lack thereof), misshapen construction and pure utilitarian nature. With the others - you can kind of see where they were going, but with the Russian embassy… it’s just terrible.

I’m from Magdeburg and i watched all the stages during the build of the Hunderwasser house. I have to say on first sight it might look a bit strange but when u see its details then u are glad that its not a plain box. Its a fingerprint of art! More important is that people from all over the world come to see it and that is great for the economy in the area around.

Without the loose ground in Pisa the tower of Pisa would be just another nameless building

It seems that asia has the more unique structures. Like the one in Pyongyang Korea.

you are a bit boring to not like all those buildings no offence and it is kind of dumb to swear. i never swear but i did accidently once in french but who cares. anyway some of those buildings are cool.

SO DONT SWEAR.

SWEARING IS UNCOOL.

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heehee that’s quite funny ’secondly - it’s wearing a belt.’ WHO PUTS A BELT ON A BUILDING?! That’s just funny…

i quite like 2 8 and 5 but its ok if some people dont because it would be boring if everyone thought the same.

I think you could do a “top 100″ list easily & I enjoy your wit. #9 looks like they just set the top part on the lower part while looking for a better location. The Russian Embassy in Cuba looks like a prison guard tower. Now my favorite, the North Korean hotel, this is “bad” gone worse. It’s depressing just to look at & nothing can be done to it. I’ve looked at this horror inside & out, it is just a bad design. Two years of national budget was spent to get it this far & now it’s crumbling. Yes crumbling, they used very poor quality concrete so now it’s fenced off & no one can get near it. Great site, carry on!