“That’s It, I’m Architecture Shaming – Burn It To The Ground Edition”: 29 Of The Best Pics From This Facebook Group
People make mistakes, and some of these mistakes happen on the job. Usually, the incident is corrected and the whole thing can be forgotten in a few minutes. But if it was an architect who messed up, the "hiccup" can be a lot more noticeable.
There's a Facebook group called 'That's It, I'm Architecture Shaming - Burn It to the Ground Edition' and it's dedicated to calling out every building that its members believe shouldn't have seen the light of day.
Of course, if there aren't objective negatives (like structural damage), a lot of it boils down to taste, igniting heated discussions, but it makes scrolling through the content a lot more interesting.
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It’s High As A Kite
I wanna be that high sometimes. It's such a nice escape from reality.
Load More Replies...First words I thought of! Then... I wanted to pinch it's fat cheek and put it to bed. It reminds me of a play house.
Load More Replies...This is pretty common in germany, austria and switzerland. Trödel & Antik is german so I'm guessing this is somewhere in southern germany but we do have houses in the area where I live (northern germany)
This is the eyes a woman gives you when she's thinking "Is this person for real? I don't believe you for a second! Mmmhmm, I see you, dumbass, with your lies!"
When You Open Like 8 Tabs By Mistake
This looks like the house right down the street. We heard the builder was also the designer. He built it and it stayed vacant for quite a few years. It finally sold to a couple who are a bit odd but the yard is fabulous, we're not friends. No one bothers them because you can't figure out where the front door is, they're several lol
And it's annoying because you can't find where the musing is playing from
According to Associate professor Melonie Bayl-Smith from UNSW Built Environment, architecture today suffers from an originality syndrome.
"When architects try to do something completely original, they don’t necessarily produce a better building," she said, adding that originality shouldn’t necessarily be the highest value of an architect.
My Friend Posted This From Vegas… Not Sure The Name Of This Building- I Kinda Dig It- His Comments Were, “It Sure Is Hot In The Desert!”
no, its just the style of the architect who built it, whaich caused it to appear as though it was.
Load More Replies...Definitely a Frank Gehry creation. The EMP in Seattle is also designed by Gehry.
Completely right. It is the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, built by Frank Gehry in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ruvo_Center_for_Brain_Health
Load More Replies...Gehry's buildings always look like he designed them by crumbling a piece of paper and saying "yup, looks good"
It's a center for brain health in Las Vegas. The design is very fitting for the types of patients they treat there. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/locations/directions/205-cleveland-clinic-lou-ruvo-center-for-brain-health--las-vegas.
So if a patient looks at this and describes it as upright and 'normal looking' the doctors know they probably have a tumour? /jk
Load More Replies...The metal part on the outside is like a cover. Underneath the metal is likely a regular building. Then the metal part is situated somehow over the top. It's like two separate parts to create one building. If I'm making sense at all...
Makes perfect sense. I hadn't considered that. It does only make it more interesting... but, no more pleasing. Thanks. .... I still wouldn't like to have to go in.
Load More Replies...Would you believe this is the Lou Ruovo Center for Brain Health?
How do you build something like this? I can image having to convince people that it SUPPOSED to look this way.
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Exactly, and it looks like it is a facility building of some sorts, not a house to live in or an office building or something. A factory maybe or storage.
Load More Replies...My cat when i show him the broken glass he pushed off the table:
"I see that architecture today, in some cases, has become a very form-based exercise, often at the expense of the quality of space or other crucial aspects of architecture. It doesn’t matter anymore whether it responds to anything to do with site or place or people — apparently, we just want it to look different," Bayl-Smith said.
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Reminds me of my experience with my current house. On the pics, it looked so unique and lovely and just perfect. When we went to see it in person, every single house in the neighborhood was 95% the exact same style, color, size, and shape. Biggest disappointment.
Load More Replies...And here we see the baby castles as the are in the wild. Clustered together for safety while they wait for the return of their mother, who is out gathering food. The points of the little turrets alert for any sense of danger.
This is an abandoned subdivision in Turkey, 700+ identical houses. Though developers have tried to finish the project they keep hitting hurdles such as bankruptcy. It's called Burj Al Babas
Was just about to post the same thing. Fascinating. STUPID. And fascinating.
Load More Replies...You get a castle and you get a castle and you get a castle !!!
Client: What I’m Looking For Is A 1990’s Strip Mall Aesthetic. Think Blockbuster
That's the Iconic blue roof of the International House of Pancakes. Best place in America to soak up a night of drinking with unlimited coffee, bacon and pancakes at 3 am. Not great for a home. Some drunk idiot is gonna walk through their door in the middle of the night looking for a smiley stack.
It looks like it would be a 90's dentist office with the translucent cube window inserts.
This has to have been a professional building turned home. Our office once tried to buy a glorified geriatric daycare that was in the middle of a residential area. Just a clinic smack dab in the heart of suburbia.
This is not how the witness protection program works. What kind of savage removes the windows, anyway?
Must have ran out of money to put on a real roof. This is all they could afford?
Everytime I See These Windows I Do A Double Take. Not For A Good Reason
With the amount of people it took to construct such a monstrosity, you will have to stab quite a few people. That being said:may I please join you in stabbing them?
Load More Replies...Imo the windows aren't the worst part. In fact, they're the only thing that makes this building even a little bit interesting. It's literally a block. The only thing keeping it from being the blockiest block possible is the windows not aligning. :D
Yeah, but I feel like they could've at least made cool patterns with them, you know? This just looks super haphazard
Load More Replies...This building triggered every bone in my body and they're all in attack mode. Was it designed in microsoft word?
Its playing tricks on my eyes or its the other way around. Now I'm dizzy...
I hate this in every bit as much as I hate tile installed in a way that breaks the pattern.
if all of the windows that are out of line were skewed in the same direction they would make a pretty cool optical illusion.
Ugh, I live quite close to this building and every time I drive by I get angry. https://everydaytourist.ca/city-planning-101/calgary-architecture-arks-the-hub-rethinks-the-box
The professor argued that creating a well-thought-out product is more important than doing something for the sake of its novelty.
"I think we as a profession need to do a better job of recognizing what does work well, and developing and enriching those approaches, whether it’s spatial design, material design, the processes of building assembly, sustainable practices — all the different things that contribute to making a great, long-lasting building," she said. "There are enough poor buildings out there; we don’t need to keep 'inventing' more of them just to try and be 'original'."
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When You Live In Arizona & Hate The Heat, But Love Golf. Here Is The House For You!
Or, they DO but they also have a floor drain to just spray down the astroturf instead of vacuuming, mopping, or cleaning up messes
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The only thing to doin this situation is to add a large dragon sculpture.
I Can Smell The Mold From Here
If I lived there I'd just always feel like the house would collapse into the lake. Love everything else abt it tho
Strikes me as somebody having tried to do a cheep version of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Falling Waters'
Now, this is something I would do: I love aesthetics, but I'm not very good in the practicality department.
Right!? Like imagine getting insurance on this place!
Load More Replies...There are a few basic architectural concepts that explain why some buildings just look off. First, we need to look looking at their mass.
"The primary mass is the largest shape in the building block. The secondary masses are the additional shapes that form the facade of a building." So if there are too many of them, the house has no concept and looks bizarre. Also, buildings need balance. Good-looking houses are usually symmetrical or asymmetrical. Any other way of designing them could result in conflicting rooflines and other architectural elements.
The Hills Have Eyes. And So Does This Hilton Head Condo
As someone who has lived in houses with too few windows, I don't hate this as much as I should.
I've lived in a lot of houses, and I've realized that older houses seem to be focused on exterior aesthetic at the expense of the comfort of the people who actually live there, while more modern houses tend to cater more to the residents without regard to 'appearances'. I can only assume this reflects the mindset of the generation the house is built in. I much prefer comfort and internal beauty over the societal idea of 'appearances'.
Load More Replies...Those ascending/descending windows have to be on a stairway, yes? That's the only thing that would make sense to me.
Appalling at first but it actually seems to make sense. It's probably great from the inside
Not to mention that this is the back. The back is allowed to be ugly.
Load More Replies...Worked on some houses on Hilton Head Island, typical "built cheap as humanly possible" wannabe mansions owned by the nouveau rich. Every house we worked on was built as poorly as any budget tract home but prettied up to look expensive.
A Greenhouse In Lafayette, LA. I Love It And Hate It At The Same Time. Weird Feeling. What Do You Think Of It. (Yes It's Old And I Hear It May Not Be Around Much Longer)
Louisiana? oh yeah, some voodoo bayou sacrifice.
Load More Replies...Would be very pretty even if it was in a good condition with a nice garden outside around it. Looks like coloured glass in the top part. I think it could look amazing if it's clean and the sun shines on it.
Load More Replies...I LOVE IT. I want to fix it up and live there with an indoor fruit orchard. 😍
My dream artist's studio with a nook to sit in on the side!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Load More Replies...I think it would be beautiful if you just do some power washing and getting some nice sunshine. Maybe a few flowers
***haunted greenhouse in louisiana incorporaaaaaaated!***
Load More Replies...I know the guy who designed this and the guy who owns it. Architect got an award for it. Now lives in New Orleans.
I Found This Just North Of Petersburg
I don’t know why, but seeing bright pink(which is a perfectly fine color) shutters on a muted-color house, just makes me instantly angry.
Looks like they’re waiting for the order for the rest of the pink shutters to arrive.
Load More Replies...Why do some of the windows only have one shutter? That's actually bugging me more than the Barbie-box pink.
I like the way the car and shutters match...my problem is with the randomly missing shutters!
Looks like they need to sell another $600 in Mary Kay products to win the last three shutters.
I shutter to think at what the inside looks like. .... Sorry, couldn't resist.
Losing My Mind At This
It's called "facadism". It's a massive problem in London. Perfectly good historic buildings get pulled down and replaced with horrible modern structures simply because it's more profitable for a developer to do that than make an old building work for them. As a concession to the planners they retain just the facade. Not only is it cultural vandalism in pursuit of greed, but it is also a disaster for the environment- destroying perfectly good buildings releases the building's embodied carbon and requires vast quantities of carbon-emitting steel and concrete production.
My mum visited East Berlin before the wall was built and on a walking tour, the guide said it was forbidden to break from the group. Well, she broke from the group to look at something and she discovered why they were forbidden from exploring: the whole area was a facade. The fronts of buildings that were still standing after the war were fixed up, but whatever was behind was left as rubble. Her tour guide was seriously annoyed when she asked about this.
The facade is presumably protected as being of architectural/historical significance.
Load More Replies...It's a terribly unfortunate missed opportunity to have not replicated the historical aesthetic of the salvaged wall instead of the modern aesthetic eyesore they went with hiding behind the majestic old stones. Just my opinion tho.
When they do this in NZ they build right up to the original facade. I don't understand the logic of building so far back like this.
It looks like there might be a courtyard in front of the new building just with a very fancy privacy fence
Load More Replies...this is just of the rules in Europe. it is forbidden to destroy old buildings. so the gentlemen who is the owner of this old building needs to be kreativ and find a loop hole. this is his victory over a stupid live system which is called capitalism
This is not a 'victory' of any type. If he didn't want to live in a building with an old facade he shouldn't have bought it. It's perfectly possible to have a modern building behind the old frontage. I've seen it many times.
Load More Replies...I don't think those 2 bars could hold the weight of the old wall. This is dangerous actually...
Even though today we have countless tools to make a design work, a few mistakes still end up getting made quite too often. According to Build It, it's not a good idea to save some money on parts of construction that will be difficult to upgrade later, like bricks or roof tiles. Also, employing too many different materials could be one of the reasons a house turns out wrong. It can make it seem overly "busy" and distract from other features.
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Me: "I'm just gonna move this picture one mm". Word: :D
Load More Replies...Hey Boss, what is the minimum amount of space we have to have to pass inspection.
Spotted In Vancouver. Windows Look Funny That’s Not Just Me Right
This whole place looks like a bunch of individual people went to a salvage store and bought each piece separately having never spoken to or seen any of the others, then one person slowly plonked it all together.
What is this fixation with painting everything battleship gray these days.
Vancouver.. like the very snowy Vancouver? And what do you do with the snow when it collects in that roof valley?
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This one is fun and in context with the organisation that owns the building. Why shaming it?
You know what if that's true I don't even think that's it's shameful, I think it's genius
Load More Replies...If its an office related to ocean creatures, would make sense but otherwise just a waste of space and materials specially on both ends. :D
Yup, it is indeed related to out fishy friends. Is the building for the National Fisheries Development Board in India: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/mimetic-architecture-osm/index.html
Load More Replies...No shame here. I love buildings like this because I just know it sparks: "mom, can we drive past the fish building?" I can hear the excitement from here and I think that makes buildings like this, super special.
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The longerberger factory! The only cool thing about those overpriced things! (Opinions only)
Don't knock it. This is the world headquarters for Longenberger handmade baskets. (I own a few) It's in Ohio, USA
So that's what you put the giant food buildings in when you need to take them somewhere!
Architects have the power to make our lives much easier and new buildings and public spaces need to accommodate and protect society, not confuse us.
After all, a report by the United Nations (U.N.) stated that 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today. A number that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Our environments are changing at an incredible rate, so designers, urban planners, and architects have to face the challenges to ensure they serve the people who live there.
A Lot Going On Here
"Nothing says rural Kerry like Velux windows in a thatched roof."
☕️🪶 There you go! (My coffee is usually referred to as tar.) 🙂 (Edit for the downvoters: No, I don't want to torture Serial Pacifist, it was just a joke, and I like that house too.)
Load More Replies...I have never seen rooflights added to a thatched roof. How on earth can that be made weathertight?
It’s not weathertight, that’s why there’s stuff growing in the now damp thatch
Load More Replies...This is very ecological, actually. Low heating AND low cooling costs.
It's fine. Provides light in an old dim cottage. Nice view of the stars on a clear night.
Was There A Half-Off Sale On Shutters?
That’s what I was thinking. They're pretty common actually.
Load More Replies...It would look better with all the shutters in place and just cut off the corners that aren't needed.
The International Bank Of Settlements In Basel, Switzerland. With All That Cash Flowing Through, One Would Think They Could Skim Some To At Least Give It A Good Paint Job Or Make The Windows Consistent
The architect has watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind over a hundred times.
As far as I know they made an architecture contest and the winner could build his vision. This is what won ...
All I Know Is It’s In LA County And Has Been Under Construction For More Than 5 Years
Don't hold your breath. Los Angeles County is a testing facility for ugly architecture.
Load More Replies...This is the (W)rapper building in Culver City. It's supposed to look like the building is wrapped in ribbons. This is part of the back side of the building. The front looks very different.
So I Was On Google Maps... Our Lady Of Fátima Church, San Jose De Costa Rica
Dear Brutalist Architecture, just an idea, but hear me out: pressure washer
Brutalism movement has left some terrible scars throughout the world. And god knows why so many of them are being given protected status.
Because many are either churches or non-religious monuments of human megalomaniac stupidity.
Load More Replies...As a recovering Catholic my experience was that the nuns could by quite brutal (the priests were too but they were usually too drunk to follow through).
Load More Replies...This looks like a level in Power Wash Simulator...
I live not far from it. It doesn't get much better on the inside either. Weird layout and design.
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That's from mcmansionhell.com isn't it? Where I learned what dormers are.
The whole thing is just... unnecessary. Ugh
Load More Replies...Amen. And not every house/building is designed by an “architect”.
Load More Replies...Nope not dormers, I'm pretty sure the windows are floating off the house. Either that, or the the frosted windows are selected for editing and not yet saved in place.
dude those windows are heavy as heck. I used to work at a home improvement store and windows like that were the worst. How do you even install that?
This is a perfect example of putting every "brilliant idea" into one house plan.
Windows Shmindows
Well, this is obviously genius! The neighborhood karen can't spy on you. 😁
But what if I want to spy on Karen?
Load More Replies...We got a 4 car garage, we don't need no stinkin' windows!
Idk man... I kinda like it. But I'm a photographer and need a space for a dark room so...
All that house and no yard. Shameful. You could borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor and never leave your balcony.
My BF Sent Me This
Hey, it's some poor guy's budget. It doesn't look that bad really. A lick of paint would help
I think this one would honestly depend on where it was built. In some places, this would be considered luxury.
I don't think this is bad architecture. I think this is poverty, maybe in a third-world country.
Looks like me 4 year old designed it before grasping where windows and doors should go.
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I’ve never heard someone describe a house as having a prion disease but somehow their description makes sense
Honestly I feel like, if you have to point out the problem, it's not that bad
You answered your own question. It's garishly huge. Imagine how expensive it would be to heat!
Load More Replies...Typical residential architectural design being taught in school today. Dazzle the tasteless and under educated with overly busy houses with meaningless features without cohesive style or function.
When I was house hunting 20 years ago I noticed that new construction homes were suffering from a virulent gable disease. Builders had determined that the more gables that they added to a house the more the buyers would perceive it to be a high end construction. I saw stretches of homes with as many as seven gables.
Am absolutely enchanted by "virulent gable disease." If i could give you an award i would 🏆
Load More Replies...And make sure it's SUPER WIDE, but only two rooms deep. It's about appearances, not substance, you know...
Yeah, a lot of them were actually pretty cool!
Load More Replies...So many of these look like builder’s specials with no architect involved.
Yeah, a lot of them were actually pretty cool!
Load More Replies...So many of these look like builder’s specials with no architect involved.
