World’s ugliest buildings
Ryugyong Hotel, a construction project that started in North Korea in the 1980s, is finally coming to an end. At the time, this was going to be the tallest building in the world. However, with the economy of the nation collapsing and the Soviet Union dissolving, the project lost its funding and put on hold indefinitely in 1992. For 16 years, it just sat there, looking like a dystopian relic you would only see in video games. The pyramid-shaped hotel, the largest structure in North Korea and one of the tallest hotels in the world, will open in 2012, 33 years after it was originally set to accept guests. Construction on the project was stalled for 15 years until 2008, when Egyptian conglomerate Orascom committed $400 million to finishing it, Architizer reported. The tower's sleek and shiny facade was finally completed this year. The hotel, which has more than 3,000 rooms, will reportedly have five revolving restaurants. It is the only hotel in the world with more than 100 stories. CNNgo ranked the Ryugyong Hotel as the ugliest buildings in the world. I still have no idea why North Korea even decided to build such a hotel in the first place.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/22/ugliest.buildings/#cnnSTCPhoto)
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This is the ugliest building I see regularly.
Somehow the picture doesn't capture how awful it is. It feels enormously heavy. I liked it to a bomb shelter.
Boston City Hall, made incredibly ugly by the moonscape of brick surrounding it, making anybody with business with the city feel like a bug on a plate.
University of Phoenix Stadium. I suppose they're no longer allowing aerial photos, it looks just like a hospital bed pan.
Runner up would be the Darth Vader Building. I don't remember exactly who owned the nonstrosity, but it was a black blot on the skyline and it was huge. I think it's a bank, they're guilty of so much these days. Darth is also in Boston.
but it has been mentioned in the past too.
Is Buckingham Palace ugly ?
Every year countless tourists flock to have their picture taken in front of its cast-iron gates.
But how does the palace - originally named Buckingham House when built in 1705 as a residence for the Duke of Buckingham - stand up next to other classic British buildings like the Palace of Westminster and St Paul's Cathedral ?
"It is a mongrel of early 19th and early 20th Century elements around an early 18th Century core," says Elain Harwood, English Heritage's leading expert on 20th Century architecture. "But it doesn't matter as it occupies such a very important place in the public imagination. Indeed, nobody ever seems to notice. It works."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18056612
For anyone not familiar here's the whole shooting match from the air.
Whatever - its not going anywhere. 