The World's Ugliest Buildings - Neatorama

This is the Elephant Building in Bangkok. Is it ugly or an acquired taste?

Yeah, I agree: ugly.

The Daily Telegraph rounded up pictures of twenty-one hideous buildings around the world. What's the ugliest building that you've ever seen?

Link -via Joe Carter | Photo: xophe_g

I like the basket company building shaped like a basket. It would cheer me up slightly as I headed to my daily dose of 9-5 office tedium.

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Most of those are not ugly, just but don't make practical sense.

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I'm still trying to get my head around those building that try and replicate real life shapes and forms. All of those who try to replicate a shape are a complete architectural disaster. These designs do not think or care about the user or planning, and end up being unusable pieces of concrete.

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Maybe I'm particularly tolerant of buildings, but of the 21 pictures I've only seen maybe 2 or 3 that I find ugly (e.g. the Ponte City Apartments, 6th pic).
The rest of them range from alright to actually very nice. The Strata SE1 (7th picture) looks really good to me, I don't see what makes it ugly.

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So if a building isn't a boring plain box it is ugly?

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I like a good quarter of those, or parts of them, although there's at least one in there I kind of love. On the other hand, 50% of them are awful, and they still look better than anything Michael Graves did.

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If you take out the right leg it looks like an AT-AT

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Oops. Let me fix that.

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At least as of this post the link sends you too:
Scott's Antarctic diet: Stewed penguin and champagne

Which was interesting by lacking in the pictures I thought it would have.

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