Travel Picks: 10 top ugly buildings and monument - Yahoo! News Top 3: 1. Boston City Hall; Boston, Massachusetts 2. Montparnasse Tower; Paris, France 3. LuckyShoe Monument; Tuuri, Finland
I can't believe they left off Houston (Texas) City Hall. Talk about a fugly building-jeepers what an eyesore.
Then there is the adobe town of Santa Fe New Mexico. It's all cute if you're a tourist and you're only there a week or two, but imagine every building-the same type (basically a mud hut). No building in town can be over two stories and it has to be adobe. Now, keep in mind that Santa Fe is a state capitol. The town is as backward as it's leadership.
I saw the heading in this thread and immediately jumped to it, thinking that I could add Boston's City Hall to the list. I am pleased to see that it came in as the ugliest building. I. M. Pei must have gone to the most horrible building in the Soviet Block and studied it with a goal of creating something uglier. I use to walk by the building every day and would be aghast!
Boston City Hall. What drunk drew that one up? That is one ugly building. Can anyone find a pic of the Lucky Shoe? I can't locate one and if it is uglier than Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral, it has to be some kinda ugly.
I always thought that I. M. Pei had designed City Hall in Boston but it turns out that he only did the redevelopment plan for Skollay Square (which is the area that was redeveloped to become Government Center, where City Hall is located). Here is more on Boston's City Hall, including the designers. Boston City Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is what Houston City Hall looked like in 1900, but it burned down. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txpstcrd/Towns/Houston/HoustonCityHallCa1900.jpg This is what they replaced it with. It has a limestone exterior and it's often filthy (it's in between two freeways). There are a bunch of better pictures, but they usually take those pictures after a cleaning. It's usually greyish, or streaks of grey/white/black. http://www.greatrealtyusa.com/content/photo/6749-7.jpg New Mexico State Capitol Building http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pnoIigd7ADQ/S...210+The+State+Capitol+building+New+Mexico.jpg downtown Santa Fe New Mexico http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pnoIigd7ADQ/S...210+The+State+Capitol+building+New+Mexico.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Hotel_Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.jpg http://www.studentcenter.org/pictures/state/new_mexico/santa_fe_nm.jpg http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles13174.jpg
Nah, got y'all beat although those Sante Fe buildings are pretty ugly. Take a look at this monstrosity...the San Antonio Library. The Designer definitely is from out of town. and whose balls are these??
San Antonio has some unique architecture. When you take the river tour, they show you a high rise with some very unique gargoyles. It was built just before the 1929 market crash for a million (by some New Yorkers). The year after the crash, it was seized and sold for 10k in back taxes. The Hilton (riverside) was built of prefabs fit together a lot like lego blocks (by helicopter)-rushed construction for the 1966 World's Fair. Behind San Francisco, it's my fave place to visit.
I was in Germany at the time but I don't suspect any Northern tampering on this one. More like someone from down South of the border who ran out of Lime colored paint. Listening too much to 'Margaritaville' I suspect.
If you are looking for ugly homes look no further than today's architechs who believe in "sustainability." Their stuff looks like a cross between military and gulag building design: New Homes - dwell.com This is why you never, never, ever, listen to what Leftists have to say. They are insane.
The reference to Brutalism and Boston City Hall s ironiclly revelent to this forum. Two British architects, Allison and Peter Smithson were credited with starting Brutalism after vising the Atlantic Wall post WW2 and merging it with the modernist work of Le Corbusier, they were deeply moved by what they saw, How it relates to normal human needs is less clear !! Bunkers at Cherburg has a musucal ring to it....lol GB
I never liked this lab building at MIT.... I have to agree with T.A; "This is why you never, never, ever, listen to what Leftists have to say. They are insane."
