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The World's Ugliest Buildings
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The Fang Yuan Building, Shenyang, China
This 25-floor office building, finished in 2001 in the northeastern capital of Liaoning Province, is a weird mishmash of ideas. One is a reference to old Chinese coins, which have square cutouts—just like the structure’s square center. Other parts of the design are like a garden-variety corporate building, with a concrete base and, on the sides, steel rims with glass grooves.
The Ugly Truth: Princeton-educated Taiwanese architect C. Y. Lee, who designed Taipei 101 (the world’s tallest building until last year), wanted to meld East and West. In this creation, urban concrete-and-steel commercial structure meets ancient Chinese currency.
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Open / CloseMore ugly crap from Frank Gehry
What about Disney concern hall in downtown Los Angeles by Frank Gehry?
It looks like Bender from Futurama took a big dump!
Oh... be discreet... I meant... a pile of opened tuna cans.
Not really
They are not really ugly, just that they lack symmetry, but then, very unique and attractive. So admiring, actually, though somewhat funny. Make me smile.
Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington Kentucky
Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington Kentucky should rank high on this list. It takes away from the great view coming into the Cincinnati area from the south heading north. Bad, bad choice in architechure style if you can call it that.
Longaberger on the other hand is quite unique and has a very clever design.
The Peru Obelisk thingy
Hey, Waydahminnut !!! Isn't this one of those things in Sudan spotted from that spy satellite in "FlashForward " ?!?!!
The purple on the EMP
is for "Purple Haze," duh! I think the EMP is fun to look at, particularly in the drab area around the Space Needle, and it contains the Scifi Museum, which is a plus. It's much better looking than the surrounding hideous high rise condos Greg Nickles sold the land to. It used to be cool how one could see the Space Needle unimpeded from all directions, yet now those condos blot out the sky, and will be on a similar "most hideous" list in a short amount of time.
Longaberger Home Office
Bunny needs an eye exam, this building is unique, bold and beautiful. To compare Longaberger to Crate and Barrel is obscene and lacks understanding of the topic she is trying to write about. Head back to the hutch and find a new topic! This article is "hare-brained"!
I agree...this article is full of it!! The Basket is very unique and imaginative. These people who conducted this "study" need to look at what's really ugly. How about Walmarts and the thousands of stark ugly strip malls that create the eyesores on this planet.
glad to see
glad to see that I am not the only one that finds most of these buildings interesting rather than ugly. Bunny must be one boring person if she thinks these buildings are ugly.
I am also disappointed that Federation Square in Melbourne Australia didn't get a mention... has to be the biggest eyesore I have ever seen.
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In the eye of the beholder
I must disagree with the author. What I see is amazing creativity and vision. People coloring outside the lines. There were an couple of locations that were very odd, but overall I would enjoy seeing these structures in person & up close. But ugly??? Not.
Is Bunny "usually" Wong?
This article must have been a ploy to get folks to comment by T&L because most of these buildings are quite creative. While some are unusual, only a few would qualify as ugly and that would be "MY" opinion. If T&L was hoping to gain subscribers with this strategy I think they are way off base. I'd be more likely to watch Fox News and I'm guessing Bunny and her editor are big fans. What a waste of bandwidth!
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