World's worst architecture.

[marvelfannumber1]

Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy

Cheap late 80s early 90s postmodernism is by far the worst architecture on the planet.

Dirty 70s blocks can be saved with new paint and windows (I've seen amazing examples of commieblock renovations) but there is no way to save those tacky hunks of pomo crap.

I dunno, I think the World Financial Center looks pretty good.

[ih8pickingusernames]

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

[novaCJ]

my house.

[ChiSoxRox]

Riverside Plaza, Minneapolis

[ThatOneGuy]

Originally Posted by marvelfannumber1

I dunno, I think the World Financial Center looks pretty good.

Pelli buildings and similar types are all good, but the cheap imitators with beige stone/green glass are always tacky and ghastly to look at.

[jd3189]

Originally Posted by initiald

This new Extron Electrons suburban office park building in Raleigh. The overall prison look of the building, the too small windows, the lack of scale, the blander than bland facade. Oh god kill it with fire.



Source: Google Maps

I see crap like this every time I go on the highway.

[marvelfannumber1]

Originally Posted by initiald

Source: Google Maps

Believe it or not, this would actually make for a moderatly good looking building in my town

[MolsonExport]

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

[HomeInMyShoes]

^It was bound to happen.

The UK has just awarded the Carbuncle Cup 2014: Woolwich supermarket named 'worst building'.

I like the description: "oppressive, defensive, arrogant and inept." That's a stunning list of adjectives.

It also talks about the Walkie Talkie building that apparently might not have won this year only because it actually isn't finished yet.

[CumbrianLad]

[Gresto]

"Carbuncle Cup"

[HomeInMyShoes]

^Yep. A quality name for the award.

From Wikipedia: "A carbuncle (/ˈkɑːbʌŋkəl/ or /ˈkɑrbʌŋkəl/) is an abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin." Carbuncle

[10538]

Originally Posted by CumbrianLad

I don't see the images.

[CumbrianLad]

That's funny, I can see them alright.

[M.R.Victor]

Doesn't this sort of thread normally settle on various forms of Brutalism countered by examples of suburban sprawl and garden-variety Post-Modernism? Usually that hotel in North Korea makes a guest appearance and those with finer palates get offended by the architectural boorishness of their SSP peers.

[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.

[chrisvfr800i]

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.

That's a better looking curtain-wall than we've been able to muster in Chicago for a long time.

[10538]

Originally Posted by CumbrianLad

I can now see the first and the last image and I must say that I absolutely love The Shard and Millenium Dome. Those are my favourite buildings in London.

[jg6544]

Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy

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

Stalinist revisionism, pure and simple.

[The_Architect]

The poo brown Bloor-Dundas Square in West Toronto: