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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This makes zero sense... It must be a goofy art installation or something.
I'm not sure if they could put anything in that door that I would walk up those stairs for
It will have to be one hell of a life changing award
Load More Replies...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 :)
I've had many a bad dream where I would need to navigate a building like this. Always ended the same way, kerplunk.
Ahh yes. The king who died of ballistic crotch rot.
Load More Replies...[David Attenborough voice] here you can see very rare occurrence of courtship behavior of wild cams
It is actually very clever. If robots revolt, they will explode when they see this, so the place will be safe.
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.
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
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
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.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's how a ladder would look like after a dozen of shots down.
Load More Replies...I took one look at it and immediately fell to my death in a very undignified fashion.
Load More Replies...cool, but imagine running up or down the stairs, then having to call 911 and tell them that the stairs impaled you.
I wish I was this foresightful few years ago before I dropped my keys down the elevator shaft
Load More Replies...Oh, boy. I'd hate to see the look on a burglar's face when he drops his lock pick!
I dropped my keys down an elevator shaft once at university - in that space where the door slides. Chaos.
Guys relax, you're seeing it wrong. It's a vacuum sucking her up into another dimension.
The bottom segment or two has presumably fallen off. But it's still hilarious that someone stood there and took a picture!
The new AnkleShatter 2000 will keep those misbehaving kids at home where they should be. By MiseryCo!
That looks like the end has been removed by vandals rather than bad design
Ooof, and I thought a metal slide on a sweltering summer day was the stuff of repressed childhood trauma.
I was thinking exactly this right as I saw your comment.
Load More Replies...Based on the original tweet, it looks like it's in Brazil
Load More Replies...Driving on the bridge, driving on the bridge, mini seizure from stress, continue to drive on the bridge.
There's a good joke you could tell if your mate was using that urinal. The kid needs the telescope becuuuaaassseee......
They also have a nice castle, a museum, great monuments, beltaine... but I guess a urinal is fine too.
me walking down the steps thinking there are no steps left ...... "bOnK"
This is Chuy's Mexican restaurant. And there's one in every restaurant. It's totally intentional, and based on the original location inside an old house in Austin TX.
Who knows? There may be gold under that wrongly placed tile or something unspeakable
If I ever had to hide a pot of gold, thanks to you I'd hide it two tiles away from the crooked one, lol
Load More Replies...Sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly frustrating.
If Oprah opens a hotel....YOU GET A BALCONY, YOU GET A BALCONY, EVERYONE GETS A BALCONY
So this sent me into a Google rabbit hole. The spaces are beautiful. There is a 1 bedroom available for $200 per night. Want.
I studied this building at the unversity. It's called l'arbre blanc by sou fujimoto. Definitely not a bad building.
Yup. Just the smell of it in the morning brings me joy.
Load More Replies...I thought this had to be intentional, but I looked up their Insta and it appears it's in a non English speaking country so they probably had no idea.
The seat of the monarch of the carpet mold and mildew
Load More Replies...This is a basement bath room, the toilet is raised so its pipes are above municipal sewer lines. You do NOT want your pipes to be lower.. you'd get all the s**t from the sewer lines.
True. There are devices to pump the sewage up but they never work and are hell on earth when they break.
Load More Replies...OK BUT WHO THE F**K CARPETS THE TOP OF THEIR TOILET! I KNOW THATS NOT THE PROBLEM IN THIS IMAGE BUT WHY?
If you don't like the food: "You got really nice plates!"
Load More Replies...They should have just let the people use the squat toilet... also... how disgusting do you think the inside of the cone is?
I've traveled to countries with squat toilets, a lot of tourists are not flexible enough to squat so they make these solutions.
Load More Replies...Followed by a gentle tap on the head with a rapidly downwardly floating house brick
They said build a wheelchair ramp they didn’t say it had to lead to the door
The exterior contractor poured the steps and ramp before the interior contrator decided that there wasn't going to be an entrance there after all.
Ist doch genial! Wie oft hatte ich das schon, dass ich beim Spazierengehen gedacht habe: Oh, wenn ich doch jetzt ein paar Stufen hochgehen könnte!
Here we go round the Mulberry bush… wait a minute, there’s no Mulberry bush here!
Okay, here I am honestly surprised. This is a Korean news program/channel, and I've been here since June 2010. If this one is real, it must have been a special occasion or something. I can assure you S. Korea is equipped with all the fancy stuff. Especially Seoul.
Some news channels: whatever just put some background on This news channel: We GoTtA bE lEgIt
I see no problem in this picture.. just some clearly professional people delivering news
Looks like there is a body buried back there and they had to finish quickly.....
Load More Replies...Looks like the door to Diagon Alley failed to rearrange itself properly.
Looks like somebody panicked because the deadline was in like 2 hours
Looks like a car has crashed into that wall and the insurance didn't want to pay much for the repairs.
The white seat is not the only thing cheapening "the look"
Load More Replies...Isn't that the name of a James Bond film based on a villain obsessed with health and safety?
That would scare my butt. I would be utterly convinced of getting stuck by a sharp hairdresser implement.
Lucite toilet seats were popular in the 70s. You could find them with shells, sand, pennies, flowers, even razor blades.
I was convinced that my hair ties are being sold on the dark web... Maybe they buy our hair ties from the dark web?
Load More Replies...Was this meant to be a suicide door, or was there supposed to be a porch?
In my country they'd call it the 'door for the mother-in-law".
Load More Replies...I assume these are doors to a parkour gym. You must be able to climb there in order to join :D
More young architects should know that Mrs Winchester is not an example.
Wanted to build a wall, did not want to remove the sink, so... Voilà.
Load More Replies...It`s simple: When you are tired, you can lean your head against the wall while handwashing!
If it was tiled in the recess, it would be cute, but this way we just know it's a botch
Now I know where sinks come from. Missed that class.
Load More Replies...But this isn't really architecture 😂 maybe the designers or something
until the fan slices through it!
Load More Replies...This coukd work... fan blows away paper, column stops fan blades, rock smashes column. 😆
Load More Replies...They were told to put a fan in that location so they did... whatever the boss says!
ok the real question is what came first the column or the fan..?
Person cleaning the fan ,"No,no no do NOT touch th...................you dummy call 911, get a bandage and some paper towells.
At least the stairs aren't that corrugated metal crap that you can see through, I still wouldn't want to walk down this though!
These are the stairs that never end. They just go on and on my friend....
this is the fire scape of my building, in sao paulo o.0 and it isnt bad as it seems
Me and my husband's second apartment was like this. As soon as you walked out of the bedroom you walked straight down the stairs, the big problem was that our previous apartment you walked straight out of the bedroom toward the bathroom. During the first few weeks there were a few middle of the night tumbles down the stairs trying to head to the bathroom while still half asleep.
My friend lived in a house who's upstairs was like this when he was a kid.
Hi, I'd like to have a word with you about your childproofing...
Brilliant reference!!Let all sing again!! Welcome to the hotel California......
Load More Replies...lightpocks.. the newest disease for your ceiling to catch.. remember to vaccinate your ceiling
Complete with ghost of the first victim to fail to navigate these steps!
Imagine wearing any kind of shoes besides sneakers
Load More Replies...I looked at this for a while and I have to admit it... It's a clever way of having a ladder with a lot of places to grab onto... not all tiny hones can have proper stairs
Yet... for any safe ladder, you're supposed to climb them down backwards, so those grabby grabbies the ghost is holding still makes little sense.
Load More Replies...Not necessarily. When an engineer gets all up-in-your-face and tells you to put (XYZ) where he/she said, and you're like, "There's a RIVER!"... You end up arguing with Head Office that putting a powerline tower in a river is not the best idea, and lose the argument. One ice melt/ice jam later, suddenly the engineer gets why it's a bad idea.
Load More Replies...This is from my country. I feel my grey cells shrinking out if shame every time I see this.
In Algeria too... https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sudinfo.be%2Fid20286%2Farticle%2F2017-11-09%2Fun-poteau-electrique-place-en-plein-milieu-de-lautoroute-en-algerie-videos&psig=AOvVaw1v7RYMEeyITmtTzeQCfTfo&ust=1621073601470000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA0QjhxqFwoTCJDJp_T3yPACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
I think this was the moment that Dali knew that bricklaying was not in his future. 🤔
Load More Replies...Magic Eye poster? Does anything pop out if you stare at it long enough?
This is just a photo of a sparkler photoshopped onto a picture of a shower.
the newest product for your enjoyment... sparking shower heads "get the dead skin off faster"
I think the building on the left just told a deep breath. Wait a while, it'll straighten when it exhales. Buildings breathe really slowly.
me when the teacher decides to make us type the essay in a box in google docs instead of just.... like... typing it and then tab just makes it have another box instead of indenting, and then i have to figure out the right number of spaces and always forget exactly how many i put. Yes, im looking at you, Mr. McCutcheon (history teacher) who made us type an essay about the incas like that a few days ago.
This is a wall poem in the NYC subway, Times Square, called 'The Commuter's Lament'. The full words (one part on each section of a walkway) are: “Overslept, so tired, if late, get fired. Why bother? Why the pain? Just go home, do it again.” Depressing NYC humor. It's been there for 25 years.
Yeah how dare anything be artistic or creative.
Load More Replies...Think about the person having to wipe them clean. You'll be fine.
Load More Replies...Well it does, doesn't it? It doubles as a fire escape when the neighbors are home, also can't be used together during a pandemic.
Load More Replies...They give high-fives to the people from the neighboring building when they see them.
Is it socially distancing if you can shake hands with the neighbour from your balcony?
Oh, God - the 70s. You can bet this combo also came in purple, brown and "harvest gold"
Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I think it's carpet, but if it were moss I think I would actually really enjoy that bathroom.
Load More Replies...When there is carpet on the floor, men are not allowed. Drip. Drip.
nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nopenopenopenopenopenope
Dunno why, but I immediately thought of Tattooine. Star Wars fans, anyone?
people, people, no, it wasn't the building, the camera was just drunk :v
So? Local utility delivers services through the same infrastructure. Makes sense.
And I've got a lightning/USB-C converter, so why not an electricity/gas converter, or electricity/water?
Load More Replies...When your spouse has taken a high value, life insurance policy on you and you’ve suddenly moved.
No...no...no this is obviously the first charge of the water tank before they can wire it into the house
Door in the unknown...time machine maybe under the disguise of a fridge
I nearly bought a house that had this exact layout. Was this taken in Bloubosrand?
This is exactly like those dreams you have right before waking up because you need to go in real life!
I've always wanted to stare down a creepy staircase when using the toilet!
We bought a house where they hadn't wallpapered behind any of the furniture!
How to fit 25 square feet of hardwood flooring in a 500 square feet room without anyone noticing.
some wooden floors deepen in colour by sunlight and the rug stops it from happening
I really want to know what used to be there. It's living space, not a kitchen so it wouldn't have been an island...
I thank you for the mental image of someone limboing this as they walk up. Lol'ed. :D
Load More Replies...Presumably, building regulation in some of these places is what I believe is called 'light touch'
I have a wooden floor in my bathroom - it's water proof stuff though. This looks like an old building (formerly without bathroom) and they just added one in the smallest room..
Load More Replies...It maybe wood effect laminate - I have that in my bathroom, it's specifically designed for wet areas. But the shower and toilet... Umm yeah, what the hell?
some bathrooms just have a toilet, sink, drain and showerhead. The entire bathroom is the shower and you need to wear slippers to go inside
Load More Replies...There are so many reasons to fire the person who was in charge of this..
I'd rather not go down those stairs as I would most definitely die.
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.
For when you really need to take a dump, but don't want your risotto to burn 😂😂
It's perfect! And you're just preparing the next bathroom visit anyway. So why not just be efficient and combine the two!
Load More Replies...Its not really meant to "live in". Its more designed to "store people"
And that's how the Jones family can drive their cars blindfolded into the garage.
Real estate agent: Wanna see the upstairs. Me: this looks unfinished. Real estate agent: It sure is... safe! it sure is safe! *Laughs nervously* ... You first
None of these people think what will happen when the age and have faulty hips and knees
Could be setting up an accident in the tub if a person washes at the sink with a lot of hand soap and fails to rinse the tub well.
Load More Replies...Two weeks later, you move into another home because your back hurts too much.
At first I thought seeing a lot of electric cables or similar.. but..mushrooms? How???
Water seepage, burst pipe, moist room, high humidity....
Load More Replies...Lol, I thought they were like cables for the computer until I read your comment and did a double take😳
Load More Replies..."I don't have mold... I mean, you cannot really call that mere "mold"."
"Hey Hey, don't be sad, it's free food!" *mutters to him/herself* "if it isn't poisonous"
Load More Replies..."Hey Herb, what's that saying about 'measure ___, cut once?' Oh eff it - we don't have time to wait and for me to remember if."
"Honeeeeyyy... don't you think that pipe looks better 2 inches to the left?"
"Yeah, that pipe will go through somewhere in here, so be ready for it..."
This is so the door wouldn't scrape the level ground as much. It reduces friction and makes it easier to open
If you look at the wall carefully you can see where the bricks are newer meaning that this used to be an entrance
How many rock climbers does it take to change a lightbulb? 4 climbers ! -1 to change the bulb -2 to belay/rig a system -1 to take a picture, add a filter to it and add it to instagram
You got to admit this is easier than stuffing around with a ladder in there.
nope, this is the most natural thing in the world, I don't see why this is here
"dum-dum-dadum, dum-dum-dadum, du-du-dooo.. du-du-dooo.. du-du-dooo.. doo-do." This comment will self destruct in five seconds...
Would certainly do this. Not afraid of heights. Pretty easy to balance yourself. Yes, no problem.
Yeah it's giving me Resident Evil puzzle vibes
Load More Replies...There must be some good loot in there, like a phoenix feather or a nice sword.
IIIIIIIIIIII'm gonna swiiiing from the chandelieeeeeer, the chandelieeeeeeeeeeeeer! (Sad that I thought of that before Tarzan, but...)
The consequence of hanging your toilet paper holder too high and too stubborn to admit it.
I just am deeply curious about all the thrones we see on BP. Just once I wish the creator would explain why.
That's Michael Scott's movie room ! Glad to see he was able to upgrade from his first plasma screen to this beauty !
Yep, from a $200 plasma screen, to a $300 one. Jan didn't want to pay up for the one she broke.
Load More Replies...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.
Aack! This is in Milwaukee! I drove by it almost daily. My son said that's where Santa keeps his elves during the off season! 🤣
Well, where did you think they spend the eleven months they aren't on your shelf?
Can you also explain why the taps seem to be placed outside of the shower ?
Load More Replies...Me and the car ended up in a Penguin enclosure once. Genuine story, I took some explaining to the recovery company! No children or animals were hurt in the making of that memory only my pride and humility.
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...
Those are the remains of the Winston Chruchill bridge that crossed Strasbourg.
Add a pool and give it a glow up, and you've got the fanciest diving pad in the neighborhood!
Quite a few people have already wished the designer had thought this one through
The door falls off when you use the vending machine.
Load More Replies...there is a red nose on the check-in desk you have to squeeze instead of a bell.
Oh Oh! I know this one! Every room is filled with clowns and there's a Cowboy graveyard out back! I wanted to stay there but my husband vetoed it.
Did anyone else zoom in to see if that was a mannequin or a real lady sitting there? 🤣😊
My sister has a square toilet. It's the most uncomfortable thing to sit on... which might be genius in a household with 2 teenagers, mobile phones, and only 1 toilet.
I think these are the norm for airplane and train bathrooms, they save a lot of space. Also, you can just close the dang lid and it'll be fine.
No... there are countries with little in the way of building codes and few people to enforce what codes do exist.
Load More Replies...A lot of these are just bad decor, and have nothing to do with architecture.
No... there are countries with little in the way of building codes and few people to enforce what codes do exist.
Load More Replies...A lot of these are just bad decor, and have nothing to do with architecture.
