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The “Cursed Architecture” Twitter Feed Showcases The Best Of The Worst (40 Pics)
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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Doctor Strange 4 years ago
This is NOT a case of poor design, but of AGE. Drains don't just sit on the ground, they actually sit on top of a large concrete cube, and the pipes connect into the concrete box. Over time, the ground will settle, but the concrete will not. That will result in the drains ending up higher than the surrounding road, walkway or ground. Especially with a case like this, with the block pavers allowing water to seep through the cracks and erode the dirt.
Duchess Raven Waves 4 years ago
I showed this to the husband. He is demanding that a Google map this image so he can go fix it because it exists and he cannot allow that lmao
peter howard 4 years ago
As a ground worker there are two way this can happen, either the drain is above ground level or they didn't compact the materials around the drain and over time it has compressed and dropped
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The paving had been laid level with the drain, but the substrate settled over time. The drain piping itself is set much deeper into the ground and has not settled. This happened because the paving substrate was not adequately compacted.
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Maureen Matthew 4 years ago
Looks like every drain in my neighborhood. And then the city wonders why residents complaim
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
Any one else think this was some of that optical illusion street art?
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Oh like my outside ground drain...the tradesman installed the lot 6" above ground..barely catches the raindrops..
Damon Hill 4 years ago
Exactly like my basement. The highest part of the floor is the ring around the drain. The drain itself is 3" below the rest of the floor.
Jw Fischer 4 years ago
When installing a sewage line the pipe that goes up that holds the drain is a vertical tube of concrete. Over time the main sewage line it is connected to, the horizontal line, will sometimes subside a bit and cause the soil surrounding the drain to subside as well leaving it above the "waterline" as you see here. Correcting this would mean digging up the road or pavement, either reinstalling or repositioning the main horizontal line, lowering the vertical pipe with the drain or lifting the soil around the drain. These are costly operations and if the water is not causing damage to property or causing a dangerous situation they are left until it is necessary to do work that sewage line. I have had to explain this so often it tends to get on my t*ts hence my rambling response
Bill Honnen 4 years ago
Gee, my newly installed shower floor is like that, Contractor says, "no worries, it will settle down".
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Congratulations for doing exactly the opposite of the only usefull thing you were expected to do.
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Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Complete with ghost of the first victim to fail to navigate these steps!
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Oh, God - the 70s. You can bet this combo also came in purple, brown and "harvest gold"
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Downunderdude 4 years ago
Presumably, building regulation in some of these places is what I believe is called 'light touch'
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
You know how annoying it is when people can see your legs under the stall panels? Well, consider yourself lucky : in there ones, they can see your butt, your balls, and the falling turd.
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Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
For when you really need to take a dump, but don't want your risotto to burn 😂😂
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Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
At first I thought seeing a lot of electric cables or similar.. but..mushrooms? How???
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The consequence of hanging your toilet paper holder too high and too stubborn to admit it.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
The Hustler Casino in California had recently opened, and I drove by it to and from work. One night, the big CASINO sign was malfunctioning, two letters kept flashing off and on. So the sign was announcing to the world "CASINO... ASIN ...CASINO... ASIN ...". I called them to let them know and they thought it was a prank until they went outside and looked at it. The next night, it was fixed.
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Chrltt Schrnz 4 years ago
It's from my hometown in France ! Actually the municipality decided to build a new bridge to accommodate the tram. But the inhabitants loved the old bridge so much that they decided to keep the stairs as a souvenir...
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Seabeast 4 years ago
No... there are countries with little in the way of building codes and few people to enforce what codes do exist.
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Lyone Fein 4 years ago
A lot of these are just bad decor, and have nothing to do with architecture.
Seabeast 4 years ago
No... there are countries with little in the way of building codes and few people to enforce what codes do exist.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 4 years ago
A lot of these are just bad decor, and have nothing to do with architecture.
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