World's worst architecture.

[JohnMarko]

Originally Posted by ih8pickingusernames

This is truly a revolting piece of garbage. The Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls.

You've got to be kidding! This is one of the most beautiful towers in NFO. The rest of the towering crap that is present day NFO is what should be torn down - they make a joke of the beauty that is the falls. The Skylon Tower was especially beautiful when it was the only tower on the skyline.

Funny you what this graceful tower torn down, but don't mention the awful "Beefeaters" tower nearby.

I believe this was the inspiration for the CN Tower in Toronto. Surely, the CN Tower's architects ripped off the design of the Skylon for their tower.

[JohnMarko]

Originally Posted by Tyler Xyroadia

BAH! These threads usually turn into a "What I think is ugly" thread. With lots of people point and saying "HEY! I like that building"

But that's the whole point! Sure beats taking out the garbage...

[MolsonExport]

The skylon tower is fugly. The fact that the rest of Niagara falls towers are also fugly does not make the skylon less fugly.

[MolsonExport]

From where I currently live (London, Ontario). Brace yourself. It is Fugly. Reminds me of Snooki's face.

Snooki's face looks like someone hot-glued a dogs snout to a moldy catchers mitt. Originally, I thought she was a dachshund Troll-doll hybrid or some kind of self-aware funnel cake made of cherry vodka.

Truck-faced Lady:

segaert photobucket

With an equally-ugly profile:

cardcow

[hauntedheadnc]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Truck-faced Lady:

segaert photobucket

You have to admit it is kind of cool how they softened the lines with that greenery at the bottom. Sometimes I think the only cure for Brutalism is a good climbing vine, preferably something that flowers.

[The_Architect]

The Skylon tower has potential to not be terrible, it just needs to be cleaned up a bit.

[chris08876]

The Chinese cyber war building in Shanghai is pretty depressing.



http://jafrianews.files.wordpress.co...n-shanghai.jpg

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I was waiting for the crack stacks of minneapolis to make a guest appearance.

haha yeah me too, but at least it's dramatic coming into the city from the airport and at least it's colorfully brutal, unlike all the rest of that kind of stuff that is usually oppressively gray. i can't believe i am standing up for it a little bit here , but only because there is so much bleakness in the world of public housing.

[333609543]

One of the worst in Toronto:
44 Charles Street West - Manulife Centre

Photo found on: tobuilt.ca

And the Leaside Towers

Photo from Emporis

390 Bay Street and Thompson Building

Photo from Emporis
Replaced the Temple Building (Tallest in picture other than Old City Hall)

Toronto's First Skyscraper
Photo from Torontoist.com article, most likely can be found in the city archives.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy

The Ryugyong has fallen from many of the 'ugly' lists now that the outside is completed.
Before:


Nowadays it has a gorgeous glass clad.

Really, I don't understand how they managed to make it worse than when it was incomplete. That cladding is just a hideous shade of 90s office tower blue with lame clashing white.

Originally Posted by The_Architect

The poo brown Bloor-Dundas Square in West Toronto:

I like it. Charmingly ugly and unique.

Here's a peace offering to everyone:
The Rooms

[MolsonExport]

The Rooms is awful. Each one of them.

[red-paladin]

The Rooms is as bad as the movie The Room

[ToysNoiz]

Shilo Inn, Salt Lake City.

Looked like this...


Then like this....


And like this at night....


Out shined every building...


Sometimes it had a Christmas tree...


Now it looks like this....


Soon it'll look like this...

[ThatOneGuy]

Post-communist Eastern European architecture is the worst in the world. Hideous monstrosities like this litter the suburbs. Worse than commieblocks, which can at least look better with renovations.


















There are whole neighbourhoods of this shit.

[huggkruka]

I have to say though, when there's a bunch of them together, I think it works. I certainly think it's better with a lively, crazy neighbourhood that is a representation of the owners' individual, if tacky, taste, than some commieblock district that is a representation of state control and conformity...

The huge one-off buildings suck however.

[kool maudit]

where is this? i recognize some skopje in there, and have definitely seen this stuff from sofia to podgorica, but this street is unique in its 19th century scale and spatial relationships.

[MolsonExport]

Wholly Shit, that's gross.

[chris08876]

^^^^^^

This looks like it was drawn by an architect with a twitching disorder and he said f it, just use the current blueprint to build it. Uhh nauseating.

[brickell]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

where is this? i recognize some skopje in there, and have definitely seen this stuff from sofia to podgorica, but this street is unique in its 19th century scale and spatial relationships.

Reminds me of a National Geographic article about wealthy Roma in Buzescu
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...ma/oneill-text

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0118...S3Wxamt1xA!2e0

[kool maudit]

i think that street it buzescu, a few of the buildings seem to match up.

what an odd thing. that style of building is familiar to me, but never in that urban a setting and never so... over-the-top.