The World's Ugliest Buildings

"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... The buildings on this list were selected because they cost so much and look so awful."