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30 Architects Who Did Not Think Their Projects Through And Created Eyesores (New Pics)
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“Measure twice, cut once” sounds like common sense. However, that’s easier said than done. Some ‘professionals’ are in such a hurry to get their jobs done that their results end up negatively impacting a whole bunch of people.
The ‘Bad Planning’ account on X (formerly Twitter) calls out incompetent and negligent architects, planners, surveyors, and engineers who made egregious and long-lasting mistakes. We’ve collected some of the top photos of design eyesores to show you how a failure to plan affects the entire project and everyone living near there. Scroll down to see what that looks like.
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about what poor city planning looks like, so we reached out to Sweden-based urban planner and designer Luka Kodikaitė. She was kind enough to shed some light on the topic and shared her perspective on the negative impact of car-centric cities. Read on for our full interview with her.
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WindySwede 2 years ago (edited)
Same person fixing this, as the one fixing electrical wire in the church pic we have seen on BP before?
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VikingAbroad 2 years ago
This is a great idea, just change the glass to clear, and his dog or cat can look out St the world.
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VikingAbroad 2 years ago
Seem like a bathroom, may be nice with the fresh air. A more beautiful solution could have existed, though. 😂
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YakFactory 2 years ago
There's no community any more. Let the children sit in front of their screens, rather than play with neighbourhood children. Then we wonder why they have trouble communicating to one another, are obese and can't play active games. this is an oversimplification, but surely there's a problem when children aren't allowed to play.
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
There must be something wrong with me, I rather like it. Not much, because it's not an attractive building as such, but preferable to unstaggered ( sorry can't think of the word, only just got up)
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Helen Rohrlach 2 years ago
At the very least put a garden bed under there and pretend it's meant to look like that.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
But look, it has those little bike gutters on the side so you can walk your bike instead of carrying it. I'd still just carry my bike.
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Guess Undheit 2 years ago
If I were walking on that sidewalk, I would throw that sign into the road way.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Uhh Oh BP let a dirty word through. Now all the children will start worshiping Satan.
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George Costanza 2 years ago
Why didn't they just run the down pipes down the sides in the corners? So weird.
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Getyourownhobby 2 years ago
This is an absolute crime! A bay brings in so much light in comparison to a flat window, and this is as ugly as sin!
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WindySwede 2 years ago
French balconette with windows (wrong way..), the architect slept during class?
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
looks almost like the front foyer of a church.... all it needs is a cross at the top...
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llama • she/her 2 years ago
i have never seen so much black mold. i hope the photographer left immediately!!
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Nimues Child 2 years ago
🎶 "Little Boxes on the hillside. Little Boxes made of ticky-tacky." 🎶
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Sinead Kenny 2 years ago
I think this is in uk and was in the paper recently. It was all grass previously and locals are furious.
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WindySwede 2 years ago
"A hand made, fitting window will cost you €2590, a pvc will cost you €750.."
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WindySwede 2 years ago (edited)
It could also been at a risk of falling? And that the room for root growth was c**p, it's was usually not the best growing conditions that older trees was given back when planted? All hard surfaces with no rainwater going into the ground. I'm not saying this was the case, but we can't just say it's always what we think is the easy reason, and not understand other reasonings and other implications of not removing/removing this tree.
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Will Cable 2 years ago
Just like out local government, but they constantly talk about how 'green' we all have to be yet they build on local parkland eradicating it and don't redevelop old land that was used as factories over 20 years ago that is still wasteland......but the new houses are built in an area with streets so narrow vehicles park on pavements/sidewalks just so cars, let alone anything bigger can get by
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WindySwede 2 years ago
Third floor? Or is this a thing where the first floor is the ground level or what it was? (Forgotten and not googling) 🫢🙃
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Older building refitted with indoor plumbing. These are the sewer lines.
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Neil Henderson 2 years ago
The person who designed this must have been thinking outside the box.
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cerinamroth 2 years ago
This makes me think of what we used to call greyhound skirts - super mini skirts that "chase the hare/hair"
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Mike F 2 years ago
This looks like one of those lift things that pops up in the sidewalk to take freight into the basement. We had those in the Detroit area in front of the older buildings. Really a surprise when you're strolling along a suddenly the sidewalk pops open and a dude appears on a little platform.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
We have a few here that pull it off I think: OregonLive-ladds.jpg 
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Dan Holden 2 years ago
Does BP even know what an architect does? At least half of these have absolutely nothing to do with architecture.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
BP is mostly made up of tabloid, vapid influencers with no knowledge of anything. So no, they have no clue what architects or engineers do.
Load More Replies... Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
Yeah, most of these are just about ordinary people messing with their own homes. Nothing to do with architects or engineers. Grow up, BP.
Dan Holden 2 years ago
Does BP even know what an architect does? At least half of these have absolutely nothing to do with architecture.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
BP is mostly made up of tabloid, vapid influencers with no knowledge of anything. So no, they have no clue what architects or engineers do.
Load More Replies... Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
Yeah, most of these are just about ordinary people messing with their own homes. Nothing to do with architects or engineers. Grow up, BP.
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