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Not all buildings are created equal. While many add value in terms of aesthetics and economics, some are just so horrid-looking that they easily ruin what could have been a picturesque city skyline.
The existence of structural eyesores has prompted people to gather on Facebook to put these monstrosities in the spotlight. And who could blame them? Once you see the photos, you will understand why these online groups exist.
Here are just a few of the photos that give new meaning to otherwise unappealing structures. Scroll through and upvote those that caught your attention the most.
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#1
This Is The Swedish Architect School
Inside this ugly building in central Stockholm thousands of modernists have learned to hate old architecture and to love gray conctete. The building was actually voted the most ugly building ever created according to swedish people but the architects still love it.
Gebidozo 3 weeks ago
This is like putting a huge cover of a Kenny G album on top of a jazz department building in a music college.
Zac 3 weeks ago
like if Le Cordon Bleu chef school was operated out of the back office of a McDonalds.
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Fenouille Fenouille 3 weeks ago
That’s an architecture school, don’t be too severe, they’re still learning…
person (i think) 3 weeks ago
I think the majority of buildings associated with teaching architecture are ugly af. It is weird. 100% of the ones I’ve been to have been, but I assume somewhere there is a nice one
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
Is this a Goofus and Gallant sort of thing, and there's a nice looking building down the block?
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#2
I Accidentally Stumbled Upon This ‘Technological Monster’
Presented as one of the wonders of modern architecture in the city of Graz, Austria: it would be the ‘Kunsthaus Graz’, an art museum (2003) not by chance affectionately called “Friendly Alien”. I cannot understand what inspired the architects and designers who created it: a painting by Salvador Dalì, a macrophage or a paramecium in microbiology, a nightmare? Not only do I find it to have a deleterious traumatic effect on the historical context of the Austrian city, but I also wonder how the local authorities and citizens could have consented to such a horror
Bill Swallow 3 weeks ago
"I cannot understand what inspired the architects and designers who created it: a painting by Salvador Dalì, a macrophage or a paramecium in microbiology, a nightmare?" D: ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Rose the Cook 3 weeks ago
Memo. Never let an Austrian design your building. No offense Austrian folks but the examples here are no recommendation for your architects.
Anne Roberts 2 weeks ago
Shouldn't building at least try blend in or be appealing to the area they are in? No, they don't all have to look the same, but honestly I don't know W*F Is'm looking at
#3
Not Only Ugly New Buildings, They Are Ruining Residential Areas Turning Historic Homes Into Ugly Boxes, It's A New Trend
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
More proof, though it's not needed, that money can't buy you good taste. Future generations will despair that so much beauty was destroyed for no good reason.
Kristiina Männiste 3 weeks ago
And they destroyed the garden too while they were at it! They could have just built the box in a cow pasture somewhere for 1/4 the money
Ugliness is subjective. What may be visually unappealing for one person may not be the case for another. However, in terms of architecture, there appears to be a consensus on aesthetic standards.
Take, for example, the Boston City Hall building. Built in 1968, the structure has garnered controversy for its brutalist architecture, which many people have not been fond of.
#4
Swedish Architects Are Stuck In The Past. Tell Them It Is Time To Invent A New Style
It is impossible to see if a new building is from 1960 or 2024. This new building in the Stockholm area was voted as the most ugly new architecture two years ago
R Ferreira 3 weeks ago
I bet the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and her hacker/d**g friends, live there.
Bill Swallow 3 weeks ago
"Invent" a style? Lord knows what they would come up with. Give them a curated selection of attractive styles and tell them to pick one. Or use any / all of them. (But not on the same building!)
Anne Roberts 2 weeks ago
It's like how I feel about tattoos. I don't have any but I often admire other people's tattoos. However, you should think that while it may be attractive or cool now, will it still feel that way in 30 years? In this case it's a big fat NO.
#5
The Ugly Church In Sweden Is Known As The Borg. Maybe Ugly Churches Are The Reason Why Sweden Has So Many Atheists
Tabitha 3 weeks ago
We are the Church of the Collective. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward you will serve us. Your culture will adapt to serve us. Resistance is futile. We are the Church of the Collective.
Bill Swallow 3 weeks ago
*sigh* Another dang Borg Cube... Start rotating the shield harmonics, charge the phaser banks, and load the quantum torpedos!
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
I think what Sweden appears to have way too many of... is gullible people with the money to build these hideous, ugly designs which should've stayed in the architect's scribble pad!
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago (edited)
France has exquisitely beautiful churches, but few go to them. Atheism isn't a matter of aesthetics.
#6
A New Very Sad Massive Demolition
Gebidozo 3 weeks ago
What puzzles me is why authorities would allow such a desecration? Were they bribed? Were they d*****d? Were they bribed while being d*****d?
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
Replace attractive, well proportioned buildings with unimaginative slabs, & fail (horribly!) to introduce any genuine design element with some haphazard wonky window placement!
Jesse Gwen 3 weeks ago
sadly this is becoming the norm . investors swooping in , building these big developments , charging outrageous prices because of the " market value " , all look the same , s**t paint so the walls get easily dirty, raise the price up every year to drive people out , cant decorate the way you'd like to feel some what home because ya know we all need that deposit back. and it's only going to get worse .
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
How is stuff like this still done in places that should have learned better in the last 60 years?! AFAIK Innsbruck is a tourist destination, too, and those visitors are usually keen on seeing some actually unique, original architecture, instead of generic modernist boxes.
Kristiina Männiste 3 weeks ago
It seems to be Innsbruck. They should have had the brains and money to do better...
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
Let me guess, it would cost to much to refurbish the old buildings (according to the architect and the owner) and a couple of expensive dinners and a trip to the Caymans got their approval.
The Boston City Hall was so poorly received due to its appearance that Buildworld ranked it second on its list of the world's ugliest buildings. It sat behind Washington D.C.’s J. Edgar Hoover Building in the top spot and the Verizon Building in New York City at number three.
However, in the strangest turn of events, the Boston City Hall building received landmark designation at the start of the year. Mayor Michelle Yu described it as a symbol of the city’s resilience, innovation, and commitment to their constituents.
#7
Looks Like A Terrible Disease To Me. Another Example Of Modern Architecture In Graz, Austria. Built In The Middle Of The Historical Old Town (2020)
Thomas Wortmann 3 weeks ago
I find the facade interesting and not ugly at all—it's just in the wrong place.
Tabitha 3 weeks ago (edited)
I swear the city planners must’ve been snorting coke like Scarface to OK a monstrosity like this to be built in the middle of a historic district. I bet the building it replaced was beautiful too. I also bet those city planners have been employed elsewhere ever since this debacle.
#8
I Shared This On My Facebook Page As An Example Of Ugly Architecture In My City (Adelaide), And Someone Said They Liked It! I Can’t Understand Why Anyone Would Say That
R Ferreira 3 weeks ago
Looks like a bunch of boxes full of random things that you put aside on a room to some day, in the future, MAYBE, organize things.
#9
Only One House Survived Modernism 😡 A Lone Survivor House In Chicago, Built In 1888
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
It woud be beautiful if cared for. Owners must have been offered a boatload of money to let it deteriorate to this.
Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
It's called a nail house, and looking at the condition of it, it's likely not long for this world.
The doomed World Trade Center twin towers were once a symbol of New York City. However, upon their completion in the mid-1970s, New Yorkers were not pleased with the design.
''Architectural historians and art critics were mostly unimpressed,' Rutgers University professor Dr. Angus Gillespie told the New York Times in a March 20o1 interview. ''They called it banal, boring, unimaginative.''
#10
Hotel Aberdeen Scotland
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
I'm in Aberdeen right now... Will have to go look for it. The granite city really could use more colour but that is an ugly building.
#11
This Is A New House In Sweden
The infamous rust house in Malmö old town was voted the most ugly new building in Sweden 2019. The swedish architect maffia loves it and it has now been copied in several other cities. How can anyone think that rust is beautiful?
Gebidozo 3 weeks ago
It looks like the product of uncontrollable nostalgia for the ugliest architecture from the Khrushchev era in the Soviet Union.
Sian E 3 weeks ago
Actually, Malmö used to have many apartment buildings that wouldn't have been out of place in Khrushchev's vision. They really did have the feel of a dystopian existence.
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ƒιѕн 3 weeks ago
That was my thought, designed to rust. I hate their products.
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kissmychakram 3 weeks ago
I love rusty old bits of metal. Finding a decaying piece of farm machinery or a bit of mining rig is a real pleasure for me. Gives me a real sense of history and awe for the people who conceived of, developed and then used these magnificent tools that helped shape our world for good or ill. This however is fecking heinous and the architects need their heads read.
Auntriarch 3 weeks ago
Why do I love verdigris? What makes copper rust look attractive, but not iron rust?
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#12
The Monster In The Old Town
The parasite in the old town of Landskrona was given an award for the best new architecture in Sweden according to the swedish architect organization. The architectural uprising voted it as the most ugly new architecture the same year.
Tabitha 3 weeks ago
Yes, if any building here deserves the wrecking ball, it’s this one. But be careful with the wrecking ball, so you don’t damage the homes on either side.
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Trashy Panda 3 weeks ago
I love a mix mix of old and new architecture, but I guess it's not for everyone
Jeolas1 3 weeks ago
I personally think this is a lovely building, and I too appreciate the contrast to the old buildings.
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Keisha Washington 3 weeks ago
Ummm so no one noticed the guy kicking the c**p out of the building?
Keisha Washington 3 weeks ago
My bad... I hadn't noticed that indeed the kick was noticed
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This style of architecture had become so unappealing that it saw a decline in the 1970s and 1980s. According to Designing Buildings, people criticized it for being “unwelcoming and inhuman.”
#13
This Is Why The Architectural Uprising Is Needed 😱 The Picture Need No More Text
#14
The Wet Dream For Modernist Architects
There is nothing that make a modernist more happy than when they get to destroy an old building. Behold the Pablo Serrano Museum in Spain.
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
I can just picture the Committee who commissioned this monstrosity, slapping themselves on the back as they pocket their fees.
Keisha Washington 3 weeks ago
This looks like a boy cat laying on its back with it's front legs in the air.
#15
Guess Who Destroyed The Building
You guessed correct. This is the office of the "Union of Romanian Modernist Architects" in Bucharest. Another parasite.
However, brutalist architecture is making a slow comeback in 2025. It has become a popular hashtag on social media, showcasing various structures of this particular style worldwide. GQ journalist Brad Dunning likened it to techno music, describing it as “stark and menacing.”
“Maybe the movement has come roaring back into style because permanence is particularly attractive in our chaotic and crumbling world,” he wrote.
#16
Pilsen Is A City Known For Its Beauty. Now It Is Also Known For The Worst Renovation Ever
#17
This Is How We Do It In Portugal. Better Than Total Demolition Or What Do You Say?
Tabitha 3 weeks ago (edited)
FFS, leave the building intact, then rent some office space somewhere else to handle the overflow as the business grows. Then let this building, in its original form, be your company’s flagship main HQ. The interior can be renovated and updated if you like, and can be done to integrate with the flow and lines of the original interior. Cripes, just a little care, thought, and effort could have avoided this heresy.
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
There are many examples of this sort of thing in Turkey, especially in Istanbul. The problem basically is that the older building is listed and can't be touched but its surroundings aren't and can. In at least two cases (both 100+ year old banks) the owners did it deliberately because the older structure is part of their corporate image but at least in those examples the effort to combine old and new was more sensitive and successful.
Victor De Cenzo 3 weeks ago
If you won't sell your house and land to us, we'll just build over you.
Rich Black 2 weeks ago
lots of town councils will allow new construction but only if the original facade is preserved. this is really true.
#18
Maidstone Museum Extension. They Thought They Would Go With Something In Keeping With The Architecture Of This Fine Building. Something Sympathetic And Discreet
Thomas Wortmann 3 weeks ago
Architects often fail to integrate their work well into the environment. I am a graphic designer: if I designed a logo using this approach, it would not stand a chance.
#19
How To Make An Old City Ugly
Oslo in Norway. Every modernist architect dreams about putting enormous boxes close to historical buildings. In Norway architects can easily fulfill their dreams. Who can put the biggest box as close as possible to an old beautiful building? Architect Bob Boxman always wins
#20
Katowice In Poland Has Been Known As An Dirty And Ugly City So Maybe The Architect Felt That His New Building Is Blending In With The City Image
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
It looks like a porcupine. Are those extrusions decks for the apartments?
StrangeOne 3 weeks ago
If the Addams Family were modernists, or if Pinhead were a gothic modernist building.
#21
Jean Nouvel Butchered A Historic Building In Monaco
#22
The So Called "Innovitaskolan" In Stockholm Should Change Its Name To Brutal School
Toothless Feline 2 weeks ago
A school of design that in Scandinavia has long outlasted the Soviets.
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#23
Uglytecture; Not Functional, Not Affordable, Not Aesthetic
Tabitha 3 weeks ago
Oh but I bet it was cheap, in comparison to the cost of matching the beautiful older building—-even though that would have been totally worth it. F*****g money gets in the way of everything beautiful. (You can take the words “f*****g money” any way you like, because you still come to the same result.)
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
What is it? It looks like mould has grown on that beautiful building and is expanding.
#24
Parasite Architecture
The wet dream for modernist architects. There is nothing that make a modernist more happy than when they get to destroy an old building. Behold the Antwerp Port House, Belgium. Architect was Zaha Hadid.
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
I'd be intrigued to learn how much of the interior of that inexplicable structure is actually functional, & how much is utterly wasted & lost space?
Kristiina Männiste 3 weeks ago
I would like to see their wind stability calculations
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#25
Was The Brief For The Architects "How Can We Design The Most Out Of Context, Tackiest And Soon To Be Outdated Addition To An Historical Building"?
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
Is it a factory? Anyone who designed, approved, and built this should be permanently committed to an institution. Hey, maybe that's the insane asylum they're already in.
#26
A Parasite In The Old Town
Visby is considered to be the most beautiful city in Sweden after Stockholm. By the entrance to the old town on one of the best preserved old streets an evil modernist decided to build an ugly rost box in 2013. In 2021 it was voted as one of Swedens 10 most ugly buildings ever created
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
I didn't recognise it as rust at first and thought it was woon. YUCK. But even so the lover half is worse with the depressing grey concrete blocks. And as someone living in a rainier part of the world, too: WTF is so great about flat roofs?? Unless you actually use it for a garden/ersatz terrace/open air living room like people in Egypt or Spain may do you don't even get any compensation for the leakage that will set in five years after moving in.
Bewitched One 3 weeks ago
I don’t think they said rust? Only rost . A rost box is for gardening I think
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Funny How Modernist Architecture Ages So Rapidly And Turns Into A Joke That Is No Longer Funny
Cee Cee 3 weeks ago
Not curling stones but the museum for popular music. It's in steel city - Sheffield UK.
Agfox 3 weeks ago
Found this from an article in April 2025: "The Sheffield Hallam University student union building is one of a number of ‘historic’ buildings of architectural interest across the UK under consideration for redevelopment". It's one of the 4 'Kettle Buildings' & it seems like people want to preserve them
#28
Oh Melbourne, How Charming You Are
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
It was a bit ostentatious, but did look nice. Now it's just f-ugly.
#29
It Just Depresses Me The Way They Let Adelaide’s Beautiful Old Buildings Down With Shoddy Verandahs And Shopfronts At The Bottom
#30
Architects Are Trying To Hide The Old Town
#31
Another Example Of Modern Architecture In Graz, Austria (Grenadiergasse In Gries). It Is Even Worse In Reality
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
Wow the Austrian architects are definitely outdoing themselves here...
#32
The New Lilly Building In Boston Is Not Very Attractive, It Has All The Architectural Beauty Of A Grocery Cart
#33
I Suppose They Thought That Mural Made It Better
Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
Is it just me, or did anyone else glance at the mural and wonder where the pressure washer ended?
Grace Sssssss 3 weeks ago
I hate when architecture is not site-specific. Like, a whole wall without windows? So, they just designed a bunch of identical apartments and laid them next each other, with no regard for the fact that the ones on the end could have more access to natural light and air? Also, that mural makes it look like the building is on fire. Weirdly foreboding.
Lotekguy 2 weeks ago
I like the mural. I'm also not sure that's an apartment building. The bottom half looks like it might be a retail space, perhaps an indoor mall or a multi-story department store. The top part could be offices. But if those are apartments, I agree about the lack of windows. I also wonder what the opposite wall looks like.
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Victorian-Era House Completely Engulfed By Ugly High Rises In Melbourne
Auntriarch 3 weeks ago
I don't hate this, it's like having a very short but extremely pretty friend
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
I hate this. That support pole is right on the property line, and they've taken the air rights over the beautiful building as their own. It's vindictive. The right photo shows how close they came to the old building's roof. I
Rich Black 2 weeks ago
the owner refused to sell. eminent domain doesn't allow evictions. what are you gonna do?
#35
Which Building Doesn't Fit Here?
#36
Historic Building Gets Demolished For Ugly New Building In London UK
Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
For what it's worth, quite often the reason you will see much older buildings being demolished and then rebuilt, instead of simply renovated, is a question of building codes and safety. Depending on the overall age of a structure, it may not be actually viable to bring it up to modern standards, whether that's questions of safety, electrical, water and sewerage, or accessibility. The only real option to an owner then, is demolition.
StrangeOne 3 weeks ago
I actually don't mind the new building. It may be gray and white, but I can see influences of Art Deco and it just looks cleaner. The old one looks like many of the old, ghetto, derelict apartments in Winnipeg that eventually get closed down, sit vacant for years until the city finally demolishes it.
#37
Serbia
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
All the most violent offenders are locked away above the ground floor.
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
If the orange matched the yellow or complemented it better, it wouldn't be as bad...
#38
Built In Hamburg 1971
Agfox 3 weeks ago
This photo was taken in 2005 when it was being demolished according to a Google search
Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
Sadly, misleading photo. The building was part way through demolition, and the lower structure had been removed, leaving the elevated structure you see here around the central elevator block. If you look closely, you can see the previously demolished floors around that central tower.
Sam Trudeau 3 weeks ago
"Hey Hugo, where's my Jenga drawing?" "Jenga drawing? You mean the architect blueprints?" "No, Hugo, I mean the- wait, what?"
azubi 3 weeks ago
It's been the office building of a brewery and was meant to resemble a pilsner beer glass.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
It does suggest considerable alcohol consumption.
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The Träskända Church In Finland Is Known As Chernobyl Church. Maybe Ugly Churches Are The Reason Why Finland Has So Many Atheists
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
With so little to enjoy here, maybe Finnish religionists are being encouraged to be more optimistic about the "next life"?
#40
An Ugly Modern House In An Otherwise Beautiful Row Of Victorian Homes. Who Approved Of This?
Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
As I said before elsewhere in this series of photos, the cause of developments like this boils down to a question of building codes. Specifically, the overall cost to remodel a property to modern standards of safety, accessiblity, water, power, utilities, and building standards. If the cost to bring an old property up to modern standards is more than the property itself is worth, a developer will ALWAYS opt to demolish and rebuild. The lot the structure is on, will be worth more than the structure itself.
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
Happening in Ottawa (and every other large Canadian city I'm sure) too...
Noel Muller 3 weeks ago
Funny thing is I got to #42 and was surprised I hadn't seen Toronto yet. Then BAM, #43.
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The Wedge Office Building By A-Hole (Sorry A-Lab) Architects In Oslo, Norway. Tear Down That Wall Now!
Sea Squirrel 3 weeks ago
I kind of like this. It's interesting. Way better than the surrounding buildings.
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
Why do all these types of buidings look like they have pimples on them?
Grace Sssssss 3 weeks ago
An exterior fire escape in a country with cold winters? I get it if it's added after the fact on an older structure, but to design a new one this way?
#42
Building In Hallein, Austria. The Architect Should Be Forced To Live In This Horrible Building
alegra 3 weeks ago
From the inside it maybe comfortable, it’s painful from the outside. So the architect should live on the opposite side of the street forced to look at it with every glance out of his windows.
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
He should have a party. People at the party will be saying - who built that ugly pos across the road and laughing.
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Stockholm
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
I think the new buildings look pretty good. They are in the same general style as the buildings on the right. They are the right preportion to the older buildings, the windows are similar, the building color does not clash with the brick of the older buildings. That thing behind the new buidings....yuck.
#44
This Is How They “Preserve Heritage” In Adelaide
#45
Modernists In Porto Decided This Is How You Build Extra Floors On Old Buildings
#46
Not Even The Old Town In Stockholm Can Be Free From Ugly Boxes
#47
This Is The Scottish Parliament Building. Note The Random Sticks Across The Windows, To Prevent The Msps Throwing Themselves Out Of This Dire Architectural Mess
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
It was nice of the architects to let everybody in their office contribute something to the overall bloọọdy mess they made of the design.
#48
A Very Special Expression Of Ugliness In Germany, Bavaria, Freising
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
O.k., you made it ugly on purpose, but couldn't they at least have painted it to match the surrounding buildings?
#49
This Is A Church 😱 Is This Where Modernist Architects Go To Pray? It Looks Like A Child’s Effort With Building Blocks
#50
Main Library Of The University Of Graz, Austria. I Am New Here, Hello To All In This Group
April Pickett 3 weeks ago
I know, money is everything when you build stuff like this. This building, with it's addition is sad, but cheaper is easier.
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
I quite like this cantelevered look.. not necessarily beside that lovely other building.
#51
Norwegian Architects Seem To Dream Back To The Glory Gray Days Of 1960
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
Why does "futuristic design" have to be so bland & forcibly unattractive?
#52
Expensive New Apartments In Sweden 😱 Those Are No Temporary Boxes
Grace Sssssss 3 weeks ago
I cannot STAND the trend for modern apartment buildings to look like shipping containers stacked on top of each other. It's great if you're actually using shipping containers to build low-income housing cheaply and efficiently, but to make it LOOK like shipping containers when they're not is so utterly pointless. Or in this case, temporary construction-office trailers.
Lynchamigsakta 3 weeks ago
Jaysus f**k. Jävla byggbaracker!!! Jag bor hellre i en ikea kartong än de här. Vedervärdiga
#53
Pre-War Building Gone. Westminster London
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
It wouldn't be half bad if they hadn't kiIIed its predecessor to raise the it there.
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#54
Concrete Playground And Ugly Boxes In Tychy City, Poland
Gebidozo 3 weeks ago
Hopefully not named after Ijon Tichy, the protagonist of the immortal “Star Diaries” by Stanislaw Lem?
Agfox 3 weeks ago
He wrote some great books, I like the Pirx the Pilot books a lot
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#55
Street In Kaunas, Lithuania Then And Now. Well... At Least They Kept The House
#56
When You Ask A Modernist To Renovate An Old Building
G A 3 weeks ago
This has been explained many times on BP. Local planners enforced it and refused a more period update.
Toothless Feline 2 weeks ago
Then we blame the local planners. They’re not immune to responsibility for ugly buildings.
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Kabuki Kitsune 3 weeks ago
It is, and it's been explained on BP a handful of times. To simplify, local council planners forbade the owner to do a more period asthetic update to the property, and instead forced them to do this in keeping with modern standards.
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Looks like a very cheap, shoddy alternative to doing the job properly.
Nicole Weymann 3 weeks ago
They weren't allowed to make it more blend in. The house is historic, and apparently the UK has strict rules about adding new parts to old structures. The owners appealed for approval with several more "blended" desings, but got denied. Finally they went "eff this", submitted the shown design, and to their surprise got allowed to build it.
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When We Said We Wanted More Buildings With Colours Other Than Grey, This Was Not What We Meant... Sollentuna, Stockholm
Thomas Wortmann 3 weeks ago
That seems interesting and not unfriendly. The image does not fit the topic.
Toothless Feline 2 weeks ago
I get a mixed impression. The colors say friendly, but the unrelenting boxes say, “Enjoy your misery!”
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Vincent Bevort 3 weeks ago
It fits very well in the environment it sits in. The rest of the area looks kind of the same. This one stands out for its color and not being a box like the rest!
#59
Edinburgh, Scotland
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
🤣 You just know the architect was in hysterics when his joke submission of a giant tụrd was actually constructed.
#60
In Adelaide, Australia. Our Beautiful Gpo Building Sadly Overshadowed By The Monstrosities Around It
#62
Manchester, UK
#63
China’s Cities Deserve Better Than This
#64
The Croatian St. Darth Vader Church
#66
I Nominate This Monstrosity For Very Ugly Building Of The Day. The Intuit Dome Has Just Been Completed In The City Of Inglewood, California, Just South Of Los Angeles
Daniel Atkins 3 weeks ago
That is without all the glass panels installed. Did a google street view and it looks even worse. On the back side there is houses a block away. You know they light it up at night imagine living that close with all the flashing lights.
#67
Maybe It's Just Me, But This Is One Of The Most Disturbing Buildings I've Seen In A Long Time
Barbara McClintock Hall at Cornell University, NY. A noteworthy scientist and Nobel laureate, she deserved way better than this
#68
What Has Infected The Ransom Gillis House After They Restored It
#69
Catholic Church Tampere Finland
#70
The Ugliest Government Building In Western New York
#73
You Can See A Little Bit The Background. It Doesn’t Fit At All. By The Way, This Is The Most Beautiful Angle
#74
Built In Nacka, Stockholm In 2024
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
You know an architectural design is an utter failure when it becomes overly concerned with an exterior texture or pattern.
#75
This Is A New Elementary School In Graz, Austria (Built In 2022
Oskar vanZandt 3 weeks ago
There could be interior courtyards that the windows face?
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#77
Apparently An Office Building, It Reminds Me Of A Kgb Interrogation Headquarters
Kristiina Männiste 3 weeks ago
Nah the windows are too big. The KGB would have smaller windows. Except the one on the 5th floor for falling out of course.
#78
Another Weird Building In Paris. I Wouldnt Say Its Ugly But Its So Strange To See That In A Legendary Place Full Of History Like La Place De La Bastille
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
Once again, a lack of confidence in an unimaginative peice of architecture uses bright colour to try to distract attention away from its failures.
#81
This House Hurts My Eyes!
#83
In Ottawa, On, Canada. Very Very Ugly!
#84
Recovery Of An Old 19th Century Structure - Barletta, Italy
#85
Art Deco Theatre Demolished... Today Only The Facade Remains. Barletta-Italy
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This Is Denmark Today.. Maribo Just Had To Share It
Dave Baxter 3 weeks ago
Tbh, looks like just another factory on another incomplete industrial estate somewhere.
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It's Impressive To See That A Classical Stone-Clad Building Manages To Be Lighter Than This "Weightless" Pavilion
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What do you think ?
SnifflyMango04 3 weeks ago
Okay, fair point that modernist archtecture is toe-curlingly ugly. BUT: those beautiful old buildings are quite a nightmare to insulate properly. They leak warmth out of every crevice and are nigh-on impossible to heat properly without making some serious costs. I suspect that the materials are hard to come by as well to restore to their old glory, while making the buildings climate conscious. I do agree, though, there should be some middle ground somewhere. I refuse to believe the only way to build functional buildings, is to drag the building plans through some dystopian nightmare juice.
Bill Swallow 3 weeks ago
Let's examine this new comment policy of BP's. Comments that are unpopular / offensive / downvoted get hidden. People see the 'Comment hidden' notice, and learn to avoid that comment, since it's likely no fun. THEN, BP decides to auto-hide any comment with a picture added, teaching people that when they see a 'Comment Hidden' notice, they need to click on it to read the comment and see if maybe it has a cool picture attached. DOES NO ONE AT BP SEE THE PROBLEM HERE? YOU'RE INCENTIVIZING YOUR READERS BOTH WAYS AT ONCE!
Sea Squirrel 3 weeks ago
Well, hasn't it been that way since people started building? These old buildings standing next to modern 'parasite architecture' were once modern 'parasite architecture' themselves - next to even older buildings.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 weeks ago
Anyone else thinking of how Trump demolished teh East Wing of the White House to build a gaudy a$$ ballroom?
Grace Sssssss 3 weeks ago
If I may note: most of these buildings were modified / destroyed in order to accommodate MORE PEOPLE. Please stop overpopulating the earth, folks!
Daniel Atkins 3 weeks ago (edited)
There seems to be an contest between Sweden and Austria who can put up the most ugliest buildings.
SnifflyMango04 3 weeks ago
Okay, fair point that modernist archtecture is toe-curlingly ugly. BUT: those beautiful old buildings are quite a nightmare to insulate properly. They leak warmth out of every crevice and are nigh-on impossible to heat properly without making some serious costs. I suspect that the materials are hard to come by as well to restore to their old glory, while making the buildings climate conscious. I do agree, though, there should be some middle ground somewhere. I refuse to believe the only way to build functional buildings, is to drag the building plans through some dystopian nightmare juice.
Bill Swallow 3 weeks ago
Let's examine this new comment policy of BP's. Comments that are unpopular / offensive / downvoted get hidden. People see the 'Comment hidden' notice, and learn to avoid that comment, since it's likely no fun. THEN, BP decides to auto-hide any comment with a picture added, teaching people that when they see a 'Comment Hidden' notice, they need to click on it to read the comment and see if maybe it has a cool picture attached. DOES NO ONE AT BP SEE THE PROBLEM HERE? YOU'RE INCENTIVIZING YOUR READERS BOTH WAYS AT ONCE!
Sea Squirrel 3 weeks ago
Well, hasn't it been that way since people started building? These old buildings standing next to modern 'parasite architecture' were once modern 'parasite architecture' themselves - next to even older buildings.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 weeks ago
Anyone else thinking of how Trump demolished teh East Wing of the White House to build a gaudy a$$ ballroom?
Grace Sssssss 3 weeks ago
If I may note: most of these buildings were modified / destroyed in order to accommodate MORE PEOPLE. Please stop overpopulating the earth, folks!
Daniel Atkins 3 weeks ago (edited)
There seems to be an contest between Sweden and Austria who can put up the most ugliest buildings.
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