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World's Ugliest Buildings

Posted by: Tim Halbur

13 December 2008 - 1:00pm

Virtual Tourist selects its top 10 ugliest buildings, ranging from the Brutalist Boston City Hall to the Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts.

"General manager, Giampiero Ambrosi talks about the selections: 'Some of these picks have all the charm of a bag of nails while others are just jaw-dropping in their complexity. Love them or hate them, the list is certainly entertaining.'

Full Story: The World's Top 10 Ugliest Buildings
Source: Virtual Tourist, December 11, 2008
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Ugly buildings

Submitted by rentacar on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 01:08.

The world is full of ugly buildings. Tenements in Hong Kong, apartment blocks in Moscow, skyscrapers in Tokyo and pretty much all of Budapest and Teheran are blots on the landscape. Rundown, poorly built and deeply dehumanizing as they may be, these buildings were not conceived with any aesthetic pretensions, however. They were meant to be barely functional and were built at minimal cost. Offensive as that might seem, what is even worse is when millions of dollars are spent with the goal of creating a noble edifice and the result is still ugly.

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