The Most Unusual or Ugliest Buildings You Have Encountered In Your Travels
Apr 3, 2020, 2:00 pm
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The Most Unusual or Ugliest Buildings You Have Encountered In Your Travels
Hi FT,
Just trying to add a hint of levity for all FTers with this thread.
To start, I will nominate Boston's city hall, 456 Park Ave. in New York City, and anything by Gehry.
I will add more (with photos) later on.
What are some of your picks?
Just trying to add a hint of levity for all FTers with this thread.
To start, I will nominate Boston's city hall, 456 Park Ave. in New York City, and anything by Gehry.
I will add more (with photos) later on.
What are some of your picks?
Apr 3, 2020, 3:23 pm
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Easy one. The National Library of Kosovo in Prishtina.
Picture from Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ugust_2008.jpg
Picture from Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ugust_2008.jpg
Apr 3, 2020, 3:47 pm
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this could veer off into OMNI-land very quickly when pointing out non-structural aspects of a good many edifices ...
Apr 3, 2020, 4:06 pm
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I think you should qualify with 'outside of Las Vegas'. I have to be honest that I find Las Vegas hotels to be mostly ugly.
Outside of that, some of the brutalist buildings around Alexanderplatz in Berlin are ugly.
The Pirelli Tower in Milan just sticks out as badly as that Tour Montparnasse does in Paris.
The NatWest Tower in London
The Shell Tower in Amsterdam (although its been repurposed as the A'Dam Tower with cool stuff, its still really ugly).
Any circular suburban Holiday Inn.
Outside of that, some of the brutalist buildings around Alexanderplatz in Berlin are ugly.
The Pirelli Tower in Milan just sticks out as badly as that Tour Montparnasse does in Paris.
The NatWest Tower in London
The Shell Tower in Amsterdam (although its been repurposed as the A'Dam Tower with cool stuff, its still really ugly).
Any circular suburban Holiday Inn.
Apr 3, 2020, 4:12 pm
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The crumbling Soviet era apartment blocks in the former DDR, seen shortly after the border opened and the reunification process started. There are similar buildings in Moscow.
It was always said that an advantage of staying in the Salzberg Sheraton (Austria) is not seeing the building from your window.
It was always said that an advantage of staying in the Salzberg Sheraton (Austria) is not seeing the building from your window.
Apr 3, 2020, 4:56 pm
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I don't need to travel to see this monstrosity aka the Borg cube
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Apr 3, 2020, 5:20 pm
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Ha, enjoyed my stay at the hotel but it definitely isn't winning any beauty contests. Not to mention, every square inch of my suite was peach!
Apr 3, 2020, 6:38 pm
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I don't want this thread to go into OMNI.
Apr 3, 2020, 6:42 pm
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Try the Genex Tower in Belgrade, Serbia, for instance...
Apr 4, 2020, 8:24 am
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I always thought this house qualified as supremely ugly. It is (was?) on the beach of the Caspian Sea near Rasht, Iran. This was an area where wealthy Iranians built summer homes prior to the Iranian revolution. I photographed it while on a work assignment in the area in 1976.
The previous year, I had been on a work assignment in Poland, where I had occasion to visit the Ministry of Culture building in Warsaw. I don't have any of my pictures of it available, but here's one harvested off the web. The saying in Warsaw was that it was the best place from which to view the city, because it was the only place where you couldn't see the Ministry of Culture building. It was (obviously) a gift from Stalin.
For what it's worth, the Oldenborg Library at Pomona College in Claremont, California is ostensibly the source for inspiration of the Borg cube. One of the Star Trek writers studied at Pomona, and has never denied it was the source of the term.
The previous year, I had been on a work assignment in Poland, where I had occasion to visit the Ministry of Culture building in Warsaw. I don't have any of my pictures of it available, but here's one harvested off the web. The saying in Warsaw was that it was the best place from which to view the city, because it was the only place where you couldn't see the Ministry of Culture building. It was (obviously) a gift from Stalin.
For what it's worth, the Oldenborg Library at Pomona College in Claremont, California is ostensibly the source for inspiration of the Borg cube. One of the Star Trek writers studied at Pomona, and has never denied it was the source of the term.
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