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...

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.

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.

Minneapolis' contribution.

The RPI EMPAC building. $150M for an art building at an engineering school, and the damn thing looks like a pig's ass.

1, 4, 5, 8, and 10 defiantly belong on the list, the others don't seem to be that bad.

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.

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.

Buckingham Palace, is a pretty crappy building, the fact that it's falling to pieces is probably a good thing.

Where's the Old Executive Office Building in DC when you need it? A fine example of institutional grostesque.

/can't wait for the new stadium next year

In Goshen NY, we have a court building that looks like a blind kid built it out of Legos.

Oh, the Bullring is awful. That picture makes it look interesting at least. But it's not. It's a monstrosity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This would be U Mass Dartmouth, having grown up in Dartmouth this is a rather flattering picture of the building.

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.

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...

No J. Edgar Hoover building?

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

I'm sorry, but no list is complete, without the awful eyesore that is the Peter B. Lewis building....


/linked like it's hot baby...

Original All-on-one-page article (no slideshow) (new window)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is probably the best thing in Cleveland.

Also, why does North Korea have a hotel?

No list is complete without Boston's city hall.

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.


The building obscures thisfrom the viewer;


Well done lads!

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???

Weird, I really like Frank Gehry buildings.
I didn't realize everyone thought they were hideous.

Ikam: No list is complete without Boston's city hall.

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

Kenwhat: Ontario College of Art and Design.

Do people often mistake it for a giant gas station?

I like Gehry buildings too.

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.

how strange that Yahoo had this exact same headline on their front page, but the content is from a completely different source:

Our local indoor track bubble

/caution: contents extremely hot

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.

I guess the bad remodeling jobs in my neighborhood don't count.

The "Enchilada Red" main public library in San Antonio

Ikam: No list is complete without Boston's city hall

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


/rtfa

No Boston City Hall?

farkin lack of interwebz skill

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

Canada's finest example of Stalinist architecture (built by Joey Smallwood, fittingly enough):