The World's Ugliest Building...

[Seiyuuki]

Don't know if this has been done before...

http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/03/0503home.html

[Herrmannek]

Palace of Culture and Science: build by soviets in centre of our capital...
http://www.wsip.com.pl/oip/historia_3/uczen/rozdzial_5u/082a.jpg
http://www.wsip.com.pl/oip/historia_3/uczen/rozdzial_5u/082.jpg

[Flagg]

I've always thought this one was hysterical::

http://home.t-online.de/home/highrises/pyryugyo.jpg


The Ryugyong Hotel is a towering, 105-story, 1,083 foot empty concrete shell in Pyongyang, North Korea. If the building ever was completed it would be considered the world's largest hotel, and one of the tallest buildings in the world. Today however, the building remains uninhabited and unfinished.

The North Koreans began constructing the pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel in 1987, reportedly aiming for 105 stories to beat out a structure the South Koreans were building in Singapore. The building was to contain 3,000 rooms and 7 revolving restaurants. The estimated cost of building it ran upwards of $750 million, which is 2% of North Korea's GDP. It's generally assumed construction came to a halt in 1991 because North Korea was suffering from famine, acute electricity shortages, and lack of necessary funding. The basic structure is complete, but no windows, fixtures or fittings have been installed. According to http://www.skyscrapers.com, the concrete used in building the Ryugyong Hotel is of unsuitable quality and therefore is unsafe - it cannot therefore be completed as currently built. With annual tourism numbering less than a hundred, some question the logic of building such a massive hotel. Pyongyang's few existing hotels remain to this day, virtually empty. The 3.9-million-square-foot concrete structure continues to dominate Pyongyang's skyline.

I bet that sucker's big enough to hide Kim's nuke program

I can't wait to see some demolition company implode it some day.....that'll be a video keeper!"

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I don't think the mellenium dome is ugly, definately a huuuge waste of money but that doesn't make it ugly.

[papasmerf]

Palace of Culture and Science: build by soviets in centre of our capital...
http://www.wsip.com.pl/oip/historia_3/uczen/rozdzial_5u/082a.jpg
http://www.wsip.com.pl/oip/historia_3/uczen/rozdzial_5u/082.jpg

I think it's pretty news, I was on the top of the tower and liked it.

http://www.berclo.info/photos97/97pl02v.jpg

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there are loads identical to that in moscow. I used to be driven past some of them on the way to school.

[Herrmannek]

there are loads identical to that in moscow. I used to be driven past some of them on the way to school.

Those are twin brothers...Midget Empire States :)

[Rantanplan]

http://www.carsten-schmuck.de/images/ruhr_uni_bochum.jpg

The Ruhr-University of Bochum. :bash:
The 60s beton architecture is so depressing that
we have here the highest suicide rate in whole europe :(

[Rantanplan]

Btw did u noticed that most Ugly buildings in this list come from the USA
;)

[Nawlins]

It's not really one building, but inner-city Athens is pretty hideous. Gray boxes as far as the eye can see. The Acropolis and the other major ruins are really the only nice thing to look at.

[MolliG]

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/localist/dalest1x.jpg

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/localist/dalest3x.jpg

Hundreds of these dotted in most towns and cities here in the UK. Could do with a bit of a make-over... But when finished they'd just get ruined. :|

[NcDeuce]

;)

http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/jan02/campbell2.jpg

[Seiyuuki]

Btw did u noticed that most Ugly buildings in this list come from the USA
;)

Heh...two of the buildings are in England and the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C., which technically mean it is in Canada.

[HappyCat]

how did the CN tower not get on that list? its the ugliest building ever made.

[EvanL]

how did the CN tower not get on that list? its the ugliest building ever made.
Its not a building. Its a tower.

[Ratamacue]

Hence why it's not considered the tallest building in the world, 'cause if I'm not mistaken, it's taller than the Petronas Towers.

[EvanL]

Hence why it's not considered the tallest building in the world, 'cause if I'm not mistaken, it's taller than the Petronas Towers.
You are not mistaken.
;)

[HappyCat]

either way its still ugly and should get an honourable mention :P

[gaz]

Coventry Universities Lanchester library (That's in England).

http://www.ridi.co.uk/Projects/Images/cov1.jpg

[Roger Rabbit]

i'd nuke that

[Hydro]

The soon (ha!) to be finished Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. The architect needs to be shot. No pics as of yet, I'll see about getting some.

[Miles Teg]

Beabourg Pompidou center, Paris...

http://www.lodging-in-paris.com/pics/big/beaubourg.jpg

http://www.metropoleparis.com/1997/70203205/beaupipe.jpg

http://www.jura.ch/ajb/site/Paris/Beaubourg.jpg

http://europeforvisitors.com/europe/galleries/france/france_photos/paris2_museums_pompidou_center_in_the_beaubourg_long_shot_223070.jpg

http://www.russie.net/paris/images/pompidou.jpg

I think we have won.

If we had this in 1940, I think Hitler never came in Paris... ;)

[Herrmannek]

What are you producing in it? ;) I bet WMD :)

[Nawlins]

I think you're right, Miles. That is truly hideous. I wonder who thought that would be a good idea?

[Miles Teg]

What are you producing in it? I bet WMD

And surprisingly the cia didn''t see it. :lol:


I wonder who thought that would be a good idea?

Like iraqi war, nobody want but everybody go. ;)
Like **** movies, everybody judge they are stupid, but everybody look them.