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(CNN) Scary The world's ten ugliest buildings (in ugly-ass slideshow format)   (edition.cnn.com) divider line 425
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Tastes Like Chicken [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 09:02:09 AM  
In that picture, the Birmingham Bullring looks kind of like a weird robot ass getting reamed by a long robot dick.

Maybe I'm just a perv...

 
Confabulat [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 09:41:56 AM  
I've been sort of obsessed lately with North Korea, and I can't think of a better symbol of that country than the Hotel Ryugyong, the Hotel of Doom.

 
Rainbowtyedye [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 09:47:29 AM  
weblogs.newsday.com

The new Xanadu complex in NJ. It probably didn't make the list this time because it isn't open yet, but every time I drive past it I want to hurl.

It's so not going to help the image people have of NJ. At least they decided to build it in north NJ where the rest of the ugly is.

 
MNguy [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 10:14:15 AM  
i129.photobucket.com

Minneapolis' contribution.

 
soze [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 10:26:39 AM  
The RPI EMPAC building. $150M for an art building at an engineering school, and the damn thing looks like a pig's ass.

 
Crosshair [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 10:39:55 AM  
1, 4, 5, 8, and 10 defiantly belong on the list, the others don't seem to be that bad.

 
jaylectricity [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 10:48:03 AM  
I thought most of those looked pretty cool. Some of the others seemed too non-descript to be taking any ugly awards.

Rainbowtyedye's building is ugly.

 
The Dreaded Rear Admiral [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:33:03 AM  
I had heard about this. Many on there deserve it, but the I.M. Pei Rock Hall definitely does NOT.

/no, I'm not biased because I'm a Clevelander.

 
Gsm136 [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:33:07 AM  
Buckingham Palace, is a pretty crappy building, the fact that it's falling to pieces is probably a good thing.

 
sendbillmoney [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:33:20 AM  
Where's the Old Executive Office Building in DC when you need it? A fine example of institutional grostesque.

clinton4.nara.gov

 
clancifer [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:33:34 AM  
images.wikia.com

/can't wait for the new stadium next year

 
daffy 2008-11-16 11:34:01 AM  
In Goshen NY, we have a court building that looks like a blind kid built it out of Legos.

 
de_Selby 2008-11-16 11:34:27 AM  
Oh, the Bullring is awful. That picture makes it look interesting at least. But it's not. It's a monstrosity.

 
girljen 2008-11-16 11:35:08 AM  
Oh, good, I was hoping all that garbage in Denver (the library and art museum complex) would make the list. I just wish the art museum itself would have been recognized instead of the library.

 
ChiWhiteSox_56 2008-11-16 11:37:09 AM  
The Dreaded Rear Admiral: I had heard about this. Many on there deserve it, but the I.M. Pei Rock Hall definitely does NOT.

I agree. Replace it with the modified Soldier Field.

/ Lifetime Chicagoan
// Love the Bears, hate the 'new' stadium

 
tonesskin [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:37:11 AM  
Wow. Here are the story "highlights" according to CNN:

The 02 Arena in London was the world's ugliest building on the Forbes list
Birmingham's Bullring shopping Center was voted as Britain's ugliest building
North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel has been criticized by many people


And when your source is a blogger...well, journalists are just farking lazy.

 
ChadManMn 2008-11-16 11:37:29 AM  
I was surprised to see Buckingham Palace on the list. After further review, it does look like it could have been built by Stalin.

/would never have occurred to me without TFA

 
moonscatter [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:37:42 AM  
So, evidently, the ugliest buildings are pretty much in London?

Pfft, they are missing out on the grey concrete balanity of American public/government architecture of the 60s and 70s.

 
tartie_pants 2008-11-16 11:38:36 AM  
This would be U Mass Dartmouth, having grown up in Dartmouth this is a rather flattering picture of the building.
farm4.static.flickr.com

 
kafkonia 2008-11-16 11:38:50 AM  
That's an awfully Anglocentric list. And surely there are uglier buildings than some of those? A lot of them are just sort of generically ugly, not Ugly like the article implied.

 
Phineas 2008-11-16 11:40:30 AM  
Tastes Like Chicken In that picture, the Birmingham Bullring looks kind of like a weird robot ass getting reamed by a long robot dick.

Maybe I'm just a perv...


Yeah this is what I saw. MSPAINT hackjob incoming...


i36.tinypic.com

 
just_dis_guy 2008-11-16 11:41:17 AM  
No J. Edgar Hoover building?

/Reminds me of Wean Hall at CMU
//that's not a good thing
///monolithic, blocky concrete everywhere...

 
kaedric 2008-11-16 11:41:55 AM  
I'm sorry, but no list is complete, without the awful eyesore that is the Peter B. Lewis building....
www.bluffton.edu

/linked like it's hot baby...

 
Sgian Dubh 2008-11-16 11:42:09 AM  

 
de_Selby 2008-11-16 11:42:24 AM  
i326.photobucket.com

I submit the city of Brasilia (GIS - new window)

 
Cheesehead_Dave 2008-11-16 11:42:38 AM  
content.answers.com

 
ptomblin 2008-11-16 11:44:13 AM  
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto should be on that list. It was a fairly ugly old pile, but then they added this ultra-modern "Crystal" on the front, like an alien spacecraft crashed into it. Not only is the Crystal a monstrosity, it also has very little usable space and you have to walk down long corridors to get to tiny little exhibit spaces.

 
yoyopro 2008-11-16 11:44:47 AM  
moonscatter
Pfft, they are missing out on the grey concrete balanity of American public/government architecture of the 60s and 70s.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. The buildings in TFA have at least left critics divided. There are some far uglier housing projects from that era that everyone can agree are just plain disgusting.

The thing is, featuring the truly ugliest buildings would just be boring and easy to agree with.
I mean, as goofy looking as the Bullring Shopping Centre is, at least it isn't boring. Arguably ugly, perhaps, but at least not banal on the order of some gov't project housing.

 
Smegbot 2008-11-16 11:45:10 AM  
They should check out Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley. It looksl like a cell block made out of concrete legos.

Bonus: It's the architecture building.

 
umop ap!sdn 2008-11-16 11:45:33 AM  
I feel like instead of a list of ugly buildings this is just a list of a few actually ugly buildings and a bunch of modern architecture that just looks different than everything around it. Some of it may look dumb, but i'd rather have something ugly and interesting than ugly and bland.

In my mind the 1000 ugliest buildings in the world are all rectangular boring nondescript concrete monolithic headstone looking edifices.

 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:46:46 AM  
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is probably the best thing in Cleveland.

 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:47:31 AM  
Also, why does North Korea have a hotel?

 
Ikam 2008-11-16 11:47:55 AM  
No list is complete without Boston's city hall.

www.boston.com

 
SoldierBlue 2008-11-16 11:48:02 AM  
i199.photobucket.com

 
Amsterdamaged 2008-11-16 11:48:17 AM  
One of the notorious Civic Offices (nicknamed the 'Bunkers') which Dublin Corporation built on the site of what had been the best preserved viking site in the world.
i398.photobucket.com

The building obscures thisfrom the viewer;
i398.photobucket.com

Well done lads!

 
HMS_Blinkin 2008-11-16 11:49:23 AM  
Crosshair: 1, 4, 5, 8, and 10 defiantly belong on the list, the others don't seem to be that bad.

Agreed. What the hell's wrong with Buckingham Palace???

 
Carbonated_Brains 2008-11-16 11:50:37 AM  
Weird, I really like Frank Gehry buildings.
I didn't realize everyone thought they were hideous.

 
jaylectricity [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:50:40 AM  
Ikam: No list is complete without Boston's city hall.

I think the Herald just ran a story about that yesterday.

 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark] 2008-11-16 11:50:56 AM  
Kenwhat: Ontario College of Art and Design.

Do people often mistake it for a giant gas station?

 
Ikam 2008-11-16 11:51:12 AM  
I like Gehry buildings too.

 
sparkeyjames 2008-11-16 11:51:14 AM  
Famous last words of the architect.... Well it looked good on paper.


Cheesehead_Dave: Picnic basket building pic.

Wonder if it would help if they put a statue of Yogi the Bear in the lobby.

 
Bhags 2008-11-16 11:51:36 AM  
how strange that Yahoo had this exact same headline on their front page, but the content is from a completely different source:

 
Radio Boy 2008-11-16 11:51:55 AM  
www.bennettindoorcomplex.com

Our local indoor track bubble

/caution: contents extremely hot

 
de_Selby 2008-11-16 11:52:04 AM  
umop ap!sdn: I feel like instead of a list of ugly buildings this is just a list of a few actually ugly buildings and a bunch of modern architecture that just looks different than everything around it. Some of it may look dumb, but i'd rather have something ugly and interesting than ugly and bland.

In my mind the 1000 ugliest buildings in the world are all rectangular boring nondescript concrete monolithic headstone looking edifices.


D'accord. This list is full of difference (granted, I hate that turn to organic shapes, but I digress). The international style (GIS new window) is the true ugly.

 
joaquin closet 2008-11-16 11:52:13 AM  
I guess the bad remodeling jobs in my neighborhood don't count.

 
DarthBart 2008-11-16 11:52:32 AM  
The "Enchilada Red" main public library in San Antonio


dville.psychoses.org

 
Sgian Dubh 2008-11-16 11:53:12 AM  
Ikam: No list is complete without Boston's city hall

I wonder if that's why it's No. 1 on the list . . .


/rtfa

 
Express Train to Bonertown 2008-11-16 11:53:24 AM  
No Boston City Hall?

 
Bhags 2008-11-16 11:53:28 AM  
farkin lack of interwebz skill

cut and paste: http://members.virtualtourist.com/vt/t/1c7/

 
drzoidberg74 2008-11-16 11:53:33 AM  
Canada's finest example of Stalinist architecture (built by Joey Smallwood, fittingly enough):

farm2.static.flickr.com

 
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