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Buildworld curated a long list of buildings from around the world, the UK, and the U.S. that are often said to be ugly. We identified all the design-themed tweets about these buildings on Twitter.
From weird commercial buildings to uninviting homes, this group has everything. Bizarre-looking and serving no functional pu “That’s It, I’m Architecture Shaming”: 30 Buildings That Look ...
Image credits: Frezzi54 The senior researcher at CSJ, Josh Nicholson, said the the UK government's new policy to build 1.5 million new homes should take into consideration that people want more ...
The tower was completed in 1969 for $5 million. [1] It was named after University of Cincinnati alumnus Powel Crosley Jr. [3]. In 2017, the building was featured at the top of a list of America's ugliest university buildings, as compiled by Architectural Digest. [4]
A common theme in brutalist designs is the exposure of the building's inner-workings—ranging from their structure and services to their human use—in the exterior of the building. In the Boston City Hall , designed in 1962, the strikingly different and projected portions of the building indicate the special nature of the rooms behind those ...
In 1962, they won an international, two-stage design competition for the building. [10] Their design, selected from 256 entries by a jury of prominent architects and businessmen, departed from the more conventional designs of most of the other entries (typified by pure geometrical forms clad with sleek curtain walls) to introduce an articulated ...
The old cinderblock Tax Collector's building on PGA Boulevard is gone. In its place is a sleek structure done up in vibrant pinks, blues and greens. From ugly to art: Mural brightens building that ...
Van Hoogstraten also used the language of symbolism: the Maupoleum "symbolize[d] all that was ugly and lacking in quality". [1] The Amsterdam School of the Arts is housed in the new building. Though there were some efforts to preserve the Maupoleum as an example of 1960s architecture, [12] the building was demolished in 1994, [5] to the relief ...