25 Ugliest Buildings In The World That You Have To See To Believe

[snooper2]

[Maeve]

1. I object to the Longaberger building being on this list

Weird, quirky, yes...but it's a lovely basket! Too bad the company failed eventually....

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Longaberger building might have failed if it was parked in an city

It totally works where it is. I grew up with Longaberger basket, and it was always a happy event when it traveled with us.

[jg10003]

35. I agree, it puts a smile on your face.

[rusty fender]

2. Interesting

Thanks for posting; I'm always interested in architecture of all kinds, especially innovative buildings. Although these buildings are considered ugly, I like that architects are trying new things

[3catwoman3]

3. I haven't looked...

...at the video yet, but am wondering - do any of them have Trump's name on them?

[snooper2]

6. no, but one looks like a penis

[flygal]

18. +1

[Beacool]

36. Yep, the Agbar Tower in Barcelona looks like a dildo.

The locals have been making fun of it ever since it was constructed.

[crazycatlady]

4. There's one glaring omission from the list

Anything with the name Trump on it.

[3catwoman3]

10. GMTA.

See my post #3 above.

[PatSeg]

20. I kept waiting for one to show up

I was terribly disappointed.

As a former Chicagoan, I especially hate this one.

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Couldn't be much tackier.

[crazycatlady]

21. I had an airport layover in Vegas

On his hotel/casino there you could see the asshole's name from the air. Tackiest building on the strip.

[PatSeg]

24. I had to Google that one

Whoa, that is disgusting. Looks like a giant gold lighter, the kind they sell in Vegas.

[lunatica]

22. Maybe it's because the other buildings are older

I find that if there are many glass building together it tends to look much more interesting. A little like we imagine futuristic SciFi landscapes might look like.

Of course I wouldn't want to move or demolish those wonderful old building but it they could be in different parts of the city it might work.

[PatSeg]

25. Chicago is the home

of the skyscraper and modern urban architecture. The Chicago fire provided many architects unprecedented opportunities to build modern and innovative structures. Some of the buildings are extraordinary and the Trump tower stands out like a sore thumb. It might work in a place like Dubai. It is just another egocentric Trump vanity venture.

I agree, it does have that SciFi look to it though.

[MountCleaners]

27. Trump Tower in Chicago was Adrian Smith

Trump had to play it more conservative to please Chicago critics. It's one of the better designs of Trump buildings. It could have been a lot worse. The worst thing about it is that it has his name on it.

Glad the Harold Washington Public Library made the list.

[PatSeg]

34. Admittedly it is not nearly as

bad as that Las Vegas one. In the right setting, it might work (minus the tacky TRUMP on it). The first time I saw a picture of it, I cringed. He is always trying to dominate everything in the neighborhood.

I checked out some of Adrian Smith's other buildings and many of them have that futuristic look about them.

[Victor_c3]

5. Some are aweful, but I don't think any of them were truly hotendous

I'm surprised I didn't see a splitlevel ranch on there. I hate those with a passion.

[BeckyDem]

8. Entertaining! I don't think all were ugly but some looked like

whoever designed them took a silly pill before they went to work.

[hunter]

9. I like all of those. Architecture should never be boring.

The ugliest buildings in the world are all the various flavors of "McMansion."

My parents once owned a small farm surrounded by larger lemon orchards.

The lemon orchards were later sold, ripped out, and turned into mini-ranches with big ugly homes that appealed to wealthier people who worried more about property values than they'd enjoy any sort of creativity or good taste. My parents fled as soon after their new neighbors formed a homeowners association and started complaining all activities that resembled farming or creative art. God forbid you use chicken shit as fertilizer, keep a few battered old vehicles visible from the street, paint a mural on a wall, or have a lawn that doesn't look a chemically enhanced golf course.

My parents are both artists who had day jobs. My brother is an artist too and had painted murals on the house. I'm certain everything my parents did threatened these alien property values. My parents sold the place and retired.

Everything that was interesting about the place has been ripped out; the animal pens, the chicken coop, the gardens, trees I planted... The small three bedroom house and murals are gone, replaced by a 4000 square foot monstrosity. It's all ugly now, the entire area gone bland and boring and "affluent" with electric driveway gates and "upscale" Home Depot decor. It's no fucking wonder so many of their wives and children become alcoholics and drug addicts. It's a damned dull and oppressive community. Conformity may sometimes be lucrative but it kills.

[Stuart G]

11. Thank You for posting this..

An outstanding diversion from what is going on...lots of fun..

[TlalocW]

12. On either side of one street in one midwestern city

You can find enough examples to knock several entries off this list, and it's all the fault of one man.

I'm talking about 81st street at the Lewis intersection in Tulsa, OK. There, on the north side, you'll find Oral Roberts University, and on the south side, Cityplex Towers, which started out as a hospital and medical research place started by Oral (in a city that has a surplus of hospital beds) and is now a sad 1970s style-looking, small unpopular hospital with the rest of the towers turned into office buildings.

I don't know if they've been improved since I last ventured into them, which in that time has seen Richard Roberts and his family relieved of any administration since they preferred to line their pockets with whatever money they could squeeze out of them, putting the bare minimum into any kind of upkeep. This has kept the places looking threadbare and rundown for years.

TlalocW

[Tracer]

13. Lucky Frank Gehry!

He made the list twice, and deservedly so.

[MrsMatt]

50. Frank Gehry is a genius

his buildings, while they may not be to your liking, are NEVER "meh".

I think the average strip mall to be more hideous BY FAR than any of the buildings on this list.

At least the architects on this list TRIED.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. The one that looks like a suppository is interesting.

Yes, I'm the one who has giant fuzzy dice hanging from his rear-view mirror.

[LeftInTX]

15. Lou Ruvo Center for brain health designed by a world renowned architect Frank Gehry.

In Las Vegas

[annabanana]

16. That one might make one QUESTION one's "brain health". .. . .n/t

[lunatica]

17. The inside of this building looks interesting to me

A very interesting spatial treatment that looks almost the opposite of what the outside looks like. On the outside the building looks squeezed and trampled but on the inside it looks very airy and stretched high and wide. Sorry for the length of the link!

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x80c8c396350956a5%3A0x52bb2cbade84723!2m19!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m13!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fpinlux%2F6869488556!5sRuvo%20Center%20-%20Google%20Search&imagekey=!1e1!2shttp%3A%2F%2Fbuildipedia.com%2Fimages%2Fmasterformat%2FChannels%2FIn_Studio%2F2011.08.22_clinic_lou_ruvo_center_for_brain_health_by_frank_gehry%2Fmodel_credit_gehry_partners_llp%2Fruvo_model_02.jpg&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw8uKFwaTSAhVHrFQKHf6vDOYQoioIezAO

[LeftInTX]

19. Interesting find, but as someone who gets migraines

I find it too chaotic.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. I think that building is fucking AWESOME.

[Lucinda]

23. Actually I liked all but two.

The Boston bldg was bleak, but fixable with some landscaping.
The Russian emb was just kind of all around ugly to me, especially for an island location.

But then again I love architecture of all types.

[janterry]

29. the boston building

I used to go to the Lindemann every once in awhile (I worked for the department of mental health) and no matter how many times I went, I could never find the door.
It is seriously the most awkward - and infuriating building...........Nothing about it makes sense, from the outside, but it's usefulness to skateboarders (and they weren't supposed to use the walkways, either .

[Lucinda]

40. LOL I'm glad that someone found it useful!

I can see where the door issue would be a prob. It doesn't seem to have anything that screams "entrance here!"
It's really pretty bleak looking, and I can appreciate a nice modern design.

[smirkymonkey]

53. Lindemann Center is like a bad nightmare.

I live very close to there. It is apparently a mental health center, but I would think the design would drive people over the edge rather than soothe them. It is a horrible design. As is Boston city hall. I think both buildings should be razed and replaced.

[Warren DeMontague]

57. Yep, that one is depressing and ugly.

I have no problem with "weird" or out of the mold, but ugly slabs of concrete are soul-deadening.

But you see more of that with unimaginative, mass produced institutional architecture than you do with buildings that are trying to do something new or original imho.

[DavidAbel]

26. There's more

There's 25 uglier buildings in the Main Street of this small town Michigan place I live in. Talk about lack of effort...

[northoftheborder]

28. Some awful, some wonderful, IMHO

Like Gehry's masterpieces

[BumRushDaShow]

30. They could have added Philly's Cira Center

I remember when they were building it and when it was done, because of the angle that I would see it while driving in to work, I called it the "Gumby Building".







It sits adjacent to Amtrak's 30th Street Station (and some of the Amtrak operations are in there). The outer window panes are highly reflective and there are also LEDs built into the exterior. A few years ago, they staged the "world's largest pong game" on the exterior!

[marybourg]

31. I've always thought this

building was hideous.

https://gwmemorial.org/

The George Washington Masonic Temple, in Alexandria, VA

[madinmaryland]

32. Any building with the name "tRump" on it is Fucking ugly by default...

[NBachers]

33. The San Francisco Federal Building casts it's malevolent shadow throughout the Cityscape.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Meh. I like most of those.

Fuck conformity.

[LanternWaste]

41. Ceilings and walls, being inherently conformist, must frustrate you to no end.

Ceilings and walls, being inherently conformist, must frustrate you to no end. No doubt, you avoid QWERTY keyboards as well because, well... "fuck conformity" and all that clever stuff.

Quite the little rebel.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. This is the hill you choose to make your stand on? Strictly regimented architecture aesthetics?

Sure, okay.

You know that echo thing always makes me think of, like, a depressed-sounding walrus. Not sure why.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. In another life, I smoked opium with Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. True story.

Architecture is only boring for those who, sadly, hath not eyes to see.

[Beacool]

39. Ever since it was built, I have hated this monstrosity.

The building is in downtown West Palm Beach, FL. It doesn't match any other building in the area and it's downright ugly. Locals call it the Darth Vader building.

[lunatica]

42. It wouldn't look half bad if it were reflective window panes to

pick up the beautiful sky and clouds. But then, maybe it would act like a magnifying glass reflecting the sun and burning everything around it. lOL!

It is definitely completely out of place! I can see why everyone calls it the Darth Vader building. In that vein the Death Star would fit too.

[Beacool]

47. Yes, it doesn't match any of the surrounding buildings.

It may have looked passable in another city, but not in WPB. On the forefront is the lovely St. Ann's Catholic church and in the background you can see a sliver of Palm Beach.

[Warren DeMontague]

44. I was gonna say, it looks like the death star.

I bet they have to pay double to a/c that thing, than they would otherwise.

[skypilot]

45. Darth Vader building.

That's exactly what I call the Philadelphia Electric Company building. I would have added it to the list. Hideous.

[Beacool]

46. I know that building, it is ugly.

I used to live in Philadelphia as a child.

[skypilot]

55. Alas, it's still there.

[BumRushDaShow]

48. But it has the new color LEDS that scroll when it's dark!!!!

That's purdy!

[skypilot]

54. And it needs them.

That building is tolerable to me ONLY at night because the building itself is less visible but the LED scroll stands out. Daylight does nothing at all for that building.

[BumRushDaShow]

56. I drove across the Parkway to the Vine St. Expressway into work every day

early in the morning when it was still dark, so I did see it everyday when lit.

The color LED update was a major improvement and a far cry from the old scrolling lights though.



As I posted here - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028691904#post30 I still think the Cira building is ridiculous.

[Separation]

51. There was a building in LA that I absolutely hated driving past!

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it, but it would blind a double eye patched pirate if they were to pass this building if any type of sun glare was to beam off of it.

[GoCubsGo]

52. I thought most of them were actually pretty cool.

I guess whoever put together this list never saw the old Soviet-bloc apartment and other buildings...