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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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Thomas Gray 4 years ago
This makes zero sense... It must be a goofy art installation or something.
Mary Veltri 4 years ago
I'm not sure if they could put anything in that door that I would walk up those stairs for
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
It will have to be one hell of a life changing award
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Danaé Panchaud 4 years ago
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 :)
JamezyJamez 4 years ago
I've had many a bad dream where I would need to navigate a building like this. Always ended the same way, kerplunk.
fnk bss 4 years ago
That‘s in Biel, Switzerland 😁. I live near thst building. It‘s a sort of an artistic thing i think
Bob Bobbs 4 years ago
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.
Karin Gibson 4 years ago
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.
Green Machine 4 years ago
There better be something AMAZING in on or both of those rooms to risk those stairs. What could it be??
CATMONSTER2018 4 years ago
This reminds me of the staircase outside the furnace room in spirited away
kurisutofu 4 years ago
I think I saw this somewhere in the past (maybe on BP) and it said it was an art project.
François Carré 4 years ago
Upper door opens to a dorm. Lower door opens to the only toilet available at night in the whole tower.
judy baker 4 years ago
Build an outside staircase with no railing they said.........fill in the blank.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
and you remember you left the keys to the other door on the desk.
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Gregory Pierce 4 years ago
Clearly made or inspired by the Galactic Empire given the lack of guard rails.
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
without a railing, all sense of safety is gonneee
Frogladysharon 4 years ago
Designed by some man, I am sure of it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha hahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nikki Owens 4 years ago
Secret escape door, disguised on the inside, leading to a hidden room.
Allison Baker 4 years ago
That makes my toes curl and body tingle with fear just looking at it! I’d never be able to do that flight.
Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago
Oh geez!!! Don't try and go up those stairs drunk!!! You're not libel to make it to the first step...
Aaleyah _ aesthetic 4 years ago
This basically says: If ur afraid of heights, ur not allowed here.
Jenn Marriott 4 years ago
Pack your things and go. Don't worry, security will escort you to the door 🚪!
Stefaan De Clerck 4 years ago
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."
Duchess Raven Waves 4 years ago
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.
Vicky Anderson 4 years ago (edited)
Change your perspective, and everything changes. The invisible show itself, and the impossible can become possible. 🔄
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
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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Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Once had the same at a place I worked, that was when I found out I was frightened of heights
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
Well the building isn't finished, OSHA requires a handrail for anything more than, I believe, 2 ft.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
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.
Clearstone 4 years ago
nope. If i need to do this to get the job i will nope my way out of there
Thomas Es Thomas 4 years ago
I wonder if those doors are really portals that don't connect to the building.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
Not even an arm railing!!!! my stomach is turning just looking at it.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
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
Matt Hollis 4 years ago
Its also going into a solid cast concrete block with nothing inside it so either its fake or was put there as a joke.
Her Highness, Duke of Qin 4 years ago
I dont think you actually supposed to take those stairs. It should be design
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
You can either like this or people (I don't blame you) 😂
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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.
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A lot of these are just bad decor, and have nothing to do with architecture.
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