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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2009-11-22 06:20 pm
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Thank you, Virtual Tourist, for pointing out that the king has no clothes on. Some of us have known this for years, but it's nice to have other people agree.

ROM's Crystal ranked Number 8 among world's 10 ugliest buildings.

The climbing babies on the Czech TV tower, OTOH, have definite possibilities. And strike me as the sort of thing the Czech *would* do.
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[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Or a collapsing parachute.

The local comments point out the obvious-- the utter lack of any common visual or architectural elements between the old square carved stone Romanesque museum and the new angled aluminum-and-glass uhh thing. The fact that the addition **cannot function efficiently as a museum** (too bright, walls too slanty to hang stuff, odd-shaped floor space) is merely icing on the visual disaster.

[identity profile] deepfryerfire.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
They picked the Mechanic? AS #1?! No, seriously we have way way way uglier buildings around Baltimore. How did they miss that hideous monstrosity behind the Power Plant? Hell, how did they miss the Power Plant? Or that apartment tower in Towson that looks like a growth?

i spel gud

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I gather the list is a touch idiosyncratic. As, last year the #1 ugliest building was something in Boston-- that's still there but didn't make this year's list.

'Idiosybcratic' has something to do with unintelligent brothers.
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[identity profile] deepfryerfire.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Here's the behind-the-Power-Plant-monster, btw: http://api.ning.com/files/jixIyMMFZLrIuvABpJ1Tbjj30RfZ74nhQJOrm1l6mYNWiFjexIys4RZ0yevXwJe3HYrl2yvq6VriuLBOuc4SBp9g1V6sm1hU/BaltimoreHarbor2007.jpg

(No idea who this woman is, but it's the only picture I could find. It's worse in person.)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I had a set of wooden blocks that made buildings like that when I was a kid. Maybe the architect did too? And this is a kid's wish come true?

OTOH like the new Ontario College of Art'n'Design (http://www.raymondbach.com/sem4/toronto/about.html), in spite of the shock value I'm rather inclined to like it. It's different, and it doesn't scream at its neighbours. (Your bldg hasn't got beighbours and the OCAD's neighbours are low-rise uniform urban blah.)

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
hmmm we have some pretty awful buildings here too! Heh! Although ... shhhh! *looks around shiftily* - I'm not sure I'm allowed to say they are ... you know ugly and such.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-11-23 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
All cities have their local cringe points. Some cities are nothing but cringe points, but one mustn't say that either.