10 Ugliest Buildings in the World

[tagutcow]

TBH, I really liked this:

 

[meister]

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_...-heritage.html

 

[MikeDT]

China Central TV building in Beijing..
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Ugly or beautiful?

Apparently it was rather expensive.

 

[sonick]

The "academic quadrangle" of my alma mater. Yea or nay?

 

[meister]

Originally Posted by sonick

The "academic quadrangle" of my alma mater. Yea or nay?

Mussolini/ish...

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by sonick

This toes the line right between oppressive brutalism and serene, monumental modernism. It's very close to being both great and terrible. The precision and abundance of the landscaping makes up for the ugliness of the actual building. Either way, it has a really haunting presence and good spaces and that's interesting enough for me to give it cautious approval. I would really like to go there around twilight when nobody is there.

 

[gdl203]

I think it's awesome. Really like the aerial haviness of it. Love all the stairs and landscaping - that footbridge is cool too.

 

[SField]

I think that's absolutely gorgeous. Is that UBC's campus? Although many of the buildings are dated, I think it's built on one of the most gorgeous pieces of land one can imagine.

 

[sonick]

Originally Posted by SField

I think that's absolutely gorgeous. Is that UBC's campus? Although many of the buildings are dated, I think it's built on one of the most gorgeous pieces of land one can imagine.

Simon Fraser University, UBC's cross-town rival.

Interesting input guys, though most students who went there (at least in my interaction) hated it and thought it looked depressing (which it definitely can during our grey rainy Fall/Winter), I never really could decide whether I liked it or not. I definitely thought it was a nice place to be on a clear summer day as shown in the pictures.

 

[HORNS]

I usually don't like architecture like this, but what makes me really like this is the lifting of the building off the ground, thus making it airy and not oppressive. I really like the walkway/bridge across the water and its associated steps.

 

[mordecai]

I think this is more what you were going for. The Netsch library at Northwestern. You don't even get the sense of how awful it is until you are in its presence.

Here is its counterpart at U Chicago

 

[bassmanpatsfan18]

Originally Posted by mordecai

I think this is more what you were going for. The Netsch library at Northwestern. You don't even get the sense of how awful it is until you are in its presence.

Here is its counterpart at U Chicago

+1 on the Northwestern Library. It's actually just called University Library now. I'm a Northwestern student and I can't stand the sight of that thing.

 

[mordecai]

Getting past it and seeing Lake Michigan is like that scene at the end of the third Matrix movie where Neo and Trinity shoot up over the clouds and she sees the sky for the first time.

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by mordecai

I think this is more what you were going for. The Netsch library at Northwestern. You don't even get the sense of how awful it is until you are in its presence.

Here is its counterpart at U Chicago

What is about university libraries that so many of them are monstrosities? University of San Diego:

Yale - it's much better from inside all of those squares are translucent alabaster, but it's truly hideous from the outside:

 

[mordecai]

The one at my school was nice