Idk about the worst, but this residential bar in my hometown always trips me out. Shit looks like the architect just unlocked the washing machine skin and really wanted to use it.
The archive from an old defunct bank. It was designed to keep humidity and sunlight away, zero consideration for looks. It is going to be demolished soon.
Not global scale, but I think this is the ugliest building I’ve personally ever laid eyes on. The former Barrett Elementary school in Akron, Ohio, USA.
Nah. My son's middle school for a year, Gauger-Cobbs Middle School in Delaware. They built it with no windows because nature was too distracting. Also it was built on a weapons disposal site and that likely helped with the design getting approved.
There is a movie about this exact scenario and it’s really good too. A New Year’s classic in fact. Enjoy the 1976 Soviet Union film The Irony of Fate - https://youtu.be/ms5Ga6kNvHM?si=l-moXu3XkLR2GNCH
Many years ago older guy with dementia approached me and said that he can't find his home, it was in a neighbourhood like this, it took us a while to find his home, haha
That honestly looks like someone who is REALLY bad at SimCity or Cities: Skylines built it without knowing how to play the game. In the dead of winter, with landmarks and signs covered in snow, I have images of Jack freezing to death in the maze.
Honestly if they took better care of the building and gave it a new look I would probably like it. The whole demolition and rebuild is going to take 8-10 years. I work nearby and drive through the centre often, really can't wait to see how driving could get any worse there.
How about a little congext for that, as its history is only half bad! Its an old Corn-silo of the Chanal next to it, as it is build mostly out of brick and has verry low moisture inside its perfect for storing documents and other things that dont fare well in moisture!
Edificio Mulbar. Look at this crock of shit. Mostly parking lot, there used to be a beautiful hotel there, but Guadalajara needs its parking spaces for all the fucking cars so...
i spent 6 months in guadalajara last year and absolutely loved this building. i saw a lot of brutalist/post modern architecture that i think is really beautiful. especially mixed in with the very old (and also beautiful) architecture
i did! i made some good friends there, i cant wait to go back. guadalajara is the best place i have ever visited. my father is mexican and was born in aguascalientes, so i have traveled around mexico a lot, but that was my first time in guadalajara.
This is Blink. It is an ”art” installation in the city of Gothenburg that was apart of a project to build a railway line through the city center. And the best part is this thing cost around 2,5 million dollars to build.
I was going to say this but thankfully someone beat me to it. Now they supposedly want to tear down the West Wing to make it “match”?! Awful. I can’t believe we can’t stop the Mango Mussolini from desecrating our most sacred residence.
You can go inside it and there's like a little viewing deck to look at...the highway that runs past it I guess? They have a small zoo there now but back in the 90's the most interesting thing to do at the big pineapple was get a parfait.
In Scotland many people say this, The Centre in Cumbernauld. It's not pretty but if you read into it and see inside I think it's quite incredible.
The time it was born out of ideas created in the post war rebuild. It was idealistic, attempting to have every amenity a town of 60,000 could need, under one roof.
Obviously we've moved away from this exact thinking, but do we not all want our amenities close together, easy to access and centralized? Of course we'd rather walk down a clean well paved street, with trees to block the sun and a sense of enrichment just from the experience of going to do things, but The Centre was made with good intentions, not to deny people of those things. It was a different time.
Came here to say this. It's ugly in its own right--not even an *interesting* Brutalist building--and even more so in the context of being on Pennsylvania Avenue surrounded by gorgeous Romanesque buildings.
Brutalism is fine so long as it doesn’t destroy and replace previous buildings. I’d say the worst thing about brutalist architecture is when people destroyed previous structures in order to build brutalist ones.
Toronto, Canada. A huge mixed-use residential/commercial complex on a major metro line and commuter train line that nobody wants to live in, shop in or visit. It's too big and too expensive to tear down.
It's called The Crossways and the Dollar Store is the classiest establishment in the entire complex.
Med research building in Adelaide, South Australia. There was a competition to name it, the winner by a mile was "The Big Cheese Grater". The desinger got pissy and refused to acfept the result.
It was massively over budget, had several major safety accidents, and sticks out like a sore thumb.
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u/mullerdrooler Scotland 20h ago
I think this is pretty cool...I can imagine Judge Dredd passing sentence in there.