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Whether we're talking about the subreddit Crappy Design or the Instagram account Ugly Irish Houses, the Internet seems obsessed with tasteless crimes against aesthetics and functionality. If you are too, the Twitter account "Cursed Architecture" is right up your alley.

Its hellish content includes strange angles, melting paint, vaguely threatening toilets, stairs that lead to nowhere, and more. Basically, the kind of stuff that architects and interior designers would imagine in a horror-comedy. But believe me, you don't have to be an industry pro to appreciate these pictures. They're so bad, us regular folk will get them as well. Enjoy!

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Adam C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The final test in your interview will be walking upstairs"

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Danaé Panchaud
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an artwork :). In Switzerland (this is Biel), a percentage of a public building is dedicated to an artwork to be permanently installed in the building and is often specially commissioned. It's obviously not a functional staircase :)

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JamezyJamez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had many a bad dream where I would need to navigate a building like this. Always ended the same way, kerplunk.

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the child
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one died in the making of this house! Nobody! And no one has ever died while living here!!! Definitely not!!!! It it totally safe to live here!!!!!!!!!

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fnk bss
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That‘s in Biel, Switzerland 😁. I live near thst building. It‘s a sort of an artistic thing i think

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Bob Bobbs
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an art installation! Fake doors, etc. Left from a city wide art project. I use to walk by it everyday and it terrified me until I learned that it wasn't actual stairs.

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Karin Gibson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh it make me feel nauseous just thinking about it. I hope those doors are really well fastened as some idiot would surely try it as a dare.

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Soulstice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine someone is walking down, and right when they reach their neighbor's, the door swings open smacking them down.

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Green Machine
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There better be something AMAZING in on or both of those rooms to risk those stairs. What could it be??

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CATMONSTER2018
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the staircase outside the furnace room in spirited away

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Stephen Lyford
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm assuming it's just a decorative feature, or art installation.

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kurisutofu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I saw this somewhere in the past (maybe on BP) and it said it was an art project.

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Christy Smith
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The day I saw these stairs would be the day I quit my née job.

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François Carré
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Upper door opens to a dorm. Lower door opens to the only toilet available at night in the whole tower.

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judy baker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Build an outside staircase with no railing they said.........fill in the blank.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What are they expecting? Someone to NOT die on that stupid thing?

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Lanie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This building is not finished yet. In both pictures it can be seen that they have not yet put fences for which there is a place.

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I H
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Must be art. Don't believe anybody gets release to build Stuart like that ...

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Gregory Pierce
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clearly made or inspired by the Galactic Empire given the lack of guard rails.

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Frogladysharon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Designed by some man, I am sure of it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha hahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nikki Owens
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Secret escape door, disguised on the inside, leading to a hidden room.

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Allison Baker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That makes my toes curl and body tingle with fear just looking at it! I’d never be able to do that flight.

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Johanne Trudeau
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh geez!!! Don't try and go up those stairs drunk!!! You're not libel to make it to the first step...

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Lu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey where’s the bathroom? Take that door and up the stairs.

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Jenn Marriott
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pack your things and go. Don't worry, security will escort you to the door 🚪!

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karin s.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

better not come home tipsy. or in bad weather. or with heavy shopping. or little kids.

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Stefaan De Clerck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The not so very well hidden stairs to M bureau? "Miss Moneypenny, why is 007 not arrived in my office yet?" "He's still too afraid to take the stairs, sir."

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Ara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's hope neither of those doors have Fire Exit written on the other side!

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DKS 001
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

first day on the job the boss says, "you need to be initiated into this job to prove yourself. To prove yourself, you have to walk the sky steps. If you fail to try, you go home."

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Duchess Raven Waves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact about me: I was in the 8th grade when I discovered my crippling fear of heights. Not by being high up oh no. I looked up at a smoke stack at a field trip and was hit with a wave of vertigo so strong it was like I was magnetized to the ground. The field trip chaperone qas the health teacher and she knew immediately. Close your eyes and sit up. Lol. I was famous for that afterwards. And now as I look at this photo I feel like I'm falling.

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Vicky Anderson
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Change your perspective, and everything changes. The invisible show itself, and the impossible can become possible. 🔄

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Elaine Mattingly
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok my perspective is you go first, open the door, take a picture and show me what is on the other side.

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Vicky Anderson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Change your perspective, and the impossible can become possible.

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Suzanne Haigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once had the same at a place I worked, that was when I found out I was frightened of heights

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Dillon Hughes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well the building isn't finished, OSHA requires a handrail for anything more than, I believe, 2 ft.

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Daniel Marsh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The guy who was supposed to install the handrail was too afraid.

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Rei
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is taken out of one of my nightmares.😶

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Bobert Robertson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of a recurring dream I have. I know I can walk, run, bike, etc. down a sidewalk without any issues. Yet in my dream there is a sidewalk hundreds of feet above the ground, nothing to either side but a drop straight to the bottom, and I can barely walk a straight line.

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Daniel B.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If video games have taught me anything: there's a power up behind those doors

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Clearstone
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nope. If i need to do this to get the job i will nope my way out of there

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Thomas Es Thomas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if those doors are really portals that don't connect to the building.

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Monic Krugell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not even an arm railing!!!! my stomach is turning just looking at it.

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Samantha Lomb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

feels like it was designed by whoever put all those catwalks without railings in the Death Star. I am sure it is not health and safety regulation compliant

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glowworm2
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MC Escher stairs. Also, I'm quite concerned about the other door on that ledge.

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Matt Hollis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its also going into a solid cast concrete block with nothing inside it so either its fake or was put there as a joke.

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No_idea
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not scared of heights but this gives me the shits!

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Hemansh0w Jad0un
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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Patsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the scene from Spirited Away when she had to get to the boiler room!

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Sum Guy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have just let the people use the squat toilet... also... how disgusting do you think the inside of the cone is?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check the door down the hall for a nice stab in the back.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was this meant to be a suicide door, or was there supposed to be a porch?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this so far up? It's neither architecture nor cursed, but just a bad photoshop.

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Julia Atkinson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, God - the 70s. You can bet this combo also came in purple, brown and "harvest gold"

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