Last year, London's new building, located at 20 Fenchurch Street, received the title of the ugliest building in London. It acquired its negative fame not so much because of its strange, walkie-talkie-like appearance, but because of some oversight of the architects. The fact is that the building was built in such a way that the concave wall reflected the sun's rays from itself, as a result of which, immediately on the opening day of the building, the plastic parts of the cars parked next to it melted under the influence of these same rays.
And this is far from the only architectural "masterpiece". It turns out that in every country you can find a considerable number of them. Let's take a look at the "best" of them.
Renmin Ribao newspaper building (Beijing, China)
The building of the daily newspaper under construction in Beijing has a very original phallic appearance, for which it was dubbed by the people as the “dick tower”.
Sharpe Design Center (Toronto, Canada)
It seems that when designing this structure, which is now located in the heart of the city, British architect Will Alsop decided to realize his wildest fantasies. As such, the Sharpe Design Center became the first building to win the Royal Institute of British Architects' Courageous, Bold and Slightly Crazy Building Award.
Bullring (Birmingham, UK)
Local residents reacted quite negatively to the appearance of this shopping center, but they can be understood, because it looks like a real cow's stomach.
Birmingham Library (UK)
Birmingham is home to Europe's largest public library, and this is what it looks like - gift-wrapped boxes stacked on top of each other.
Building in Bangkok (Thailand)
The sight of this elephant building immediately brings to mind an arcade game from the 1980s.
Residential complex "St. George's Wharf" (London, UK)
The residential complex, built on the banks of the Thames, is a crazy cacophony of spiers and cascading roofs.
Geisel Library (San Diego, California)
This avant-garde architectural creation is located at the University of California and creates the impression of an unbearable burden that awaits every student who entered here, which, you see, is somehow not inspiring.
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Canada)
This new wing of the building of the Royal Ontario Museum is made in a rather unusual architectural style. That's just what it reminds of ... Either the fragments of a meteorite that crashed to Earth, or a broken transformer that could not be reincarnated.
Ryugyong (Pyongyang, North Korea)
The building of the 300-meter Rügen Hotel began to be erected back in 1987, but had to be completed today. However, the skyscraper completed in 2013 was never put into operation. According to Japanese media, such a grandiose project took almost 2 percent of North Korea's GDP.
Grand Lisboa (Macau, China)
Another hotel of a very strange architectural preference. The surreal object bears resemblance to an egg that has been pierced by a huge flower.
Royal National Theater (London, UK)
And again we return to the United Kingdom. The building of this theater was built in London in the 1970s and was negatively received not only by the public, but also by architects, who in turn described it as "an aesthetic of broken forms." Even Prince Charles himself allowed himself a very sad remark, referring to the structure as "a clever way to build a nuclear power plant in the middle of London, which met with no objections."
Mirador (Madrid, Spain)
When you look at this house, you get the impression that the architect was inspired by children playing with the designer. Perhaps it was from one of them that the idea for creating this structure was taken. Residents of the area also do not share the vision of the architect, so they nicknamed the structure the “Bin Laden Building”.
Orbita (London, UK)
This observation tower offers a beautiful view of the Olympic Park, but the design itself is not particularly pleasing to the eye. It looks like a rollercoaster crashed into the tower.
Trellick Tower (London, UK)
Perhaps the appearance of this building would be more suitable for some military facility or industrial enterprise than for a residential complex.
I've been meaning to write this post for years... and finally got it. It is high time to wash the bones of Moscow architecture. Today I will show you 10 buildings that disfigure my Moscow. Of course, the list of such buildings can be made very long, but we will limit ourselves to modern Moscow, after the collapse of the Union.
Moscow is generally very unlucky with its capital status. Due to the proximity of power, the city is constantly experiencing barbarian raids. Each leader who seized power tried to leave his mark on the city. Most distinguished were Stalin, who demolished half of the center (the war prevented the final destruction of Moscow), and Luzhkov, who decided to invent his own style in architecture. There was even such a thing as "Luzhkov's style."
What is "Luzhkov's style"? This is the style of the barbarians. It is characterized by a contemptuous attitude towards history and culture. The interests of the owner come first, and the role of the architect is often quite insignificant. Luzhkov's style is the architecture of money and greed, the architecture of super profits. The Luzhkov team, like a swarm of locusts, swooped down on the city and began to destroy it, like sailors who robbed the Winter Palace and urinated into vases. Luzhkov's Moscow is completely false and absurd. In place of the historical environment, plastic boxes of business centers appeared, the scarecrow of Peter was stuck in the Moscow River, the squares were destroyed, building them up with shopping and entertainment centers.
Luzhkov's style spills out of the mirrored windows of plastic sheds onto the streets in the form of carnivals of mummers, painted borders, excavator buckets, and the relocation of Muscovites from the outskirts. Luzhkov's Moscow is fabulously gingerbread, it is an ongoing celebration of bad taste, vulgarity and rudeness with Gazmanov on stage and Posokhin in Mosproekt. This is Moscow, unsuitable for life. Luzhkov's style is not so much about architecture. This is a reflection of the lawlessness of the 90s and a demonstration that one ignorant tyrant can destroy the city if he is not stopped in time. He was stopped, but too late.
Moscow Mayor Yu. M. Luzhkov:
"This is a modern style of architecture, and I can dream that this style is the development of Moscow traditions. In general, Moscow differs in its architecture, this is the so-called Russian eclecticism, which means the uncertainty of styles. But it is also good for what I call not uncertainty but a variety of styles."
So, the 10 ugliest buildings in Moscow:
1. "Nautilus"
This is how the place where the Nautilus now stands looked like in the early 30s of the last century: 
In a few years, both the gates and the Church of the Healer Panteleimon of Athos will be demolished, on the site of which the Nautilus now stands.
On the site of the wonderful building of the Rossiya insurance company, they built a faceless box for security officers. Luzhkov could not help marking the square. He gives his friend, the court architect Alexei Vorontsov, to build the Nautilus shopping center here.
The building is made in the best traditions of the Luzhkov style. Crazy combination of ridiculous elements. Vulgarity and bad taste. Some sails, a marine theme, colored tiles and a mess of metal structures.
After everything that was in this place, "Nautilus" looks like a spit in the face of all Muscovites. "Look how we can spoil Moscow!" he shouts. He screams loudly, everyone hears and turns away in horror. "Nautilus" is like an animator from a Turkish hotel who suddenly turns out to be the host of a Viennese ball. The venerable audience gasped, the ladies covered their faces with their hands, in response, stupid jokes and vulgar anecdotes fly into the hall. Who let this barbarian into my city? Yuri Mikhailovich, clean up after yourself!
2. Shopping complex "Okhotny Ryad"
There is an urban legend about Okhotny Ryad. They say that Yeltsin was so afraid of a repetition of the half-million rally at Manezhka that he ordered Luzhkov to build up the square with something. Without thinking twice, Luzhkov called his friends, who successfully destroyed the square. Opposite the Kremlin, near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Alexander Garden, a shopping center with collective farm amenities appeared. And so that no one had any doubts about how much these barbarians hated Moscow, a cascade of fountains with fabulous figurines by Mr. Tsereteli was made next to the shopping center. Yes, right in front of the Kremlin they placed some bronze freaks that could still be endured in a provincial zoo, but not in the heart of Moscow.
I look at this horror and cry! What the hell have you done! But how can you walk around my Moscow after this! If it were possible to burn out of shame, Moscow would have burned down, leaving neither this shit, nor Luzhkov, nor his friends.
Okhotny Ryad maintains the level of the city sewer. Tents with fast food, pubs, various shops and a food court attract provincial gopota, business travelers and package tourists. Not a single self-respecting Muscovite will go for a walk to the Manezhka; for a Muscovite, the appearance here is indecent. People go to Okhotny Ryad in a drunken frenzy to swim in the fountains. Caucasians like to come here to get acquainted with affordable provincial girls. 
To build such a thing in a holy place is a crime.
3. Monument to Peter I
The monument to Peter I is not exactly a building, but its harm to the city is so great that I cannot but mention it in my anti-rating. Let's start with the fact that he is simply mediocre. The 98-meter idol on the banks of the Moskva River even entered the top ten ugliest buildings and monuments in the world according to VirtualTourist.com.
The author of the monument, Tsereteli, was a very poor sculptor. Everything he did was bad. I could scatter dozens of epithets in front of you so that all the facets of his work shine brighter, but I will limit myself only to the fact that this is bad. His monuments are like pimples on the body of my beloved Moscow. You look at this beauty, and she has a purulent boil on her cheek. How did this happen? Baby, why don't you get rid of him?
The appearance of Peter I in the very heart of the capital is also shrouded in a fog of legends. According to one version, Tsereteli made a monument to Columbus and wanted to sell it to the USA, Spain and other countries in the early 90s. But no one took the monument, they don't need someone else's shit. "Don't waste the good!" Tsereteli thought and stuck Peter's head to Columbus. By the way, it is known that Peter I hated Moscow, so the monument to him in the very center of the capital looks at least strange.
This cyclopean idol disfigured the panorama of Moscow. He constantly climbs out in the most unexpected places, he screams and bawls, breaking the majestic calmness of the beautiful city. The monument was erected in 1997. I have a bottle of 1997 wine at home. I'll open it when this shit is taken down.
Peter I has one plus: thanks for not putting it in St. Petersburg.
4. "Atrium"
Luzhkov didn't like squares very much, but he liked money very much. So Moscow lost the most expensive - the area. The square is the most important element of urban space. But the barbarians do not understand this. For barbarians, the square is a wasteland that can be built on. So shopping centers began to appear on the body of Moscow. "Atrium" appeared on the square of the Kursk railway station. Shopping and entertainment colossus in the best traditions of Luzhkov's style. This is either an amusement park or an inexpensive Turkish hotel. A heap of some turrets and primitive volumes.
5. "European"
As "Atrium" killed the square in front of the Kursk railway station, so "European" killed the square in front of Kievsky. Huge! No, the gigantic, cyclopean barn took up an entire block. He gobbled up not only the square, he gobbled up the building of the Kyiv railway station, he gobbled up Dorogomilovskaya street and all the neighboring houses. Like a black hole, "European" sucked all the surrounding space. Even light cannot leave a black hole.
"European" is ugly. I see no point in discussing its architecture. Another scar on the body of Moscow, which was left by the barbarians from Luzhkov's team. Who are the authors of the project? Oh, our friend Zurab Tsereteli had a hand in it.
6. Central Bank and Baltschug Plaza
In sixth place we have a whole complex of buildings opposite the Kremlin. Such a reserve of freaks who grew up in Zamoskvorechye. Here again, the interesting fact is that Stalin did not have time to destroy Zamoskvorechye, and Luzhkov could not pass by. So, sheds of office centers appeared on the site of historical buildings.
7. Theater Et Cetera on Chistye Prudy
The theater building is terrible from all sides, it does not fit into the environment at all, it is mediocrely designed, it is simply ugly. How this freak could be born in the historical district of Moscow, I do not understand. You have to dislike the city so much to agree on the construction of this shit! But under Luzhkov, such clumsy mediocre buildings bred in Moscow like pimples on the face of a 16-year-old teenager.
The building for the troupe of Alexander Kalyagin was built in 2005. Kalyagin himself in an interview emphasized that he wanted to combine in the theater "all the best that he had seen in the theaters of the world."
As a result, everything looks as if the circus tent was decorated with everything that could be found on the construction market: decorative columns, an incomprehensible washer on top, assorted windows, portals "like in Italy".
The architect A. Velikanov, who started working on the building, got tired of the customer's constant revisions, accused Kalyagin of bad taste and refused his authorship in the project. And then Kalyagin broke up.
8. Chaika Plaza on Novoslobodskaya
This freak was born in 2000. Don't try to explain its architecture, it's impossible. Some kind of ridiculous combination of columns, portals and domes. It seems that parts of the building were thrown out of the bag onto a Moscow street, and they fell in random order.
9. Complex on Paveletskaya next to the House of Music
Another reserve of Luzhkov's architecture. On the left are incomprehensible buildings from a movie about the future of the 70s. There are strange structures on the roofs: either some kind of space weapon, or platforms for sacrifice, which crowned the Mayan pyramids. On the right is an architectural caricature of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. A skyscraper of a hotel with a cup on the roof and a ridiculous plump barrel of the House of Music.
10. Tower "Mercury"
In general, I like Moscow City, but, as they say, the family has its black sheep. In the case of Moscow City, the Mercury Tower is the freak. Firstly, in itself, its architecture is wretched and primitive, as if copied from Sim City. Secondly, for some reason they decided to make it orange! How? For what? Why? No one knows. There is now this rusty tower and the eye is not pleasing.
00. New Voentorg
I can't help mentioning a few more buildings... As a bonus, so to speak...
New Voentorg. One of the main losses of Moscow in the 2000s ... A vivid example of the life of the barbarians from Luzhkov's team. In the center of Moscow, on Vozdvizhenka, there was a real masterpiece in the Art Nouveau style with Art Deco elements. It was built in 1910.
But almost 100 years later, in 2003, Luzhkov decided to demolish it. Muscovites protested, Mikhail Shvydkoy (then Minister of Culture) even sent a telegram to President Putin asking him to stop the act of vandalism, but nothing helped. To give you an idea of the level of these barbarians, here are some quotes.
Moscow Mayor Yu. M. Luzhkov:
"Voentorg turned out great. And there is an underground parking. In the same place at the entrance - soldiers with shields."
Head of the Moscow construction complex V.I. Resin:
"It's like choosing a wife: someone likes blondes, someone likes brunettes. Legs are long or short, ears are such and such, but in general it is pretty. cities have built 35,000 square meters of parking spaces and 47,000 underground spaces.Despite the criticism of a number of media outlets about the appearance and general parameters of the new building of the Voentorg, I believe that this is a completely normal building, in general it turned out very nice.
First Vice-President of the public organization "Association of Builders of Russia", adviser to V.I. Resin L.A. Kazinets:
"And what about Voentorg? Who decided that this is an interesting building? There should be clear classifiers of objects that are really monuments. Such as the UNESCO list. Why does the city have to die like Venice? Why don't we build new beautiful houses?<…>In the center, 70 percent of the buildings are of no interest. Why support these fools? For what funds? I am in favor of cleaning out all the junk in the city."
In fact, there was nothing left of the old Voentorg. In its place was a ridiculous parody, ugly and illiterate. Barbarians mocked Moscow, no matter what. For example, the Voentorg site is part of the Kremlin's security zone, where a regeneration regime operates that excludes original creativity. But that didn't bother anyone. The new building was built one and a half times more, it looks like the original project only in name.
It would be better to put nothing at all. But the barbarians wanted to mock. It's as if your beloved dog was killed, and then as a token of apology they brought you a crooked stuffed animal.
Library of Moscow State University
In 2005, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Russia's main university, a new library was erected on Lomonosovsky Prospekt. Everything is done in the best traditions of Brezhnev's "monumental shit" style. To make it at least somehow correspond to the spirit of the time, the monumental shit was lined with cheap porcelain stoneware and golden windows were inserted into it. It turned out such a gel chest with legs. The building has only one advantage: it is not located in the center of the city, and few people see it.
Furniture center "Grand"
All over the world there are abandoned buildings covered with legends of the past. Fans of tickling the nerves often go there to see paranormal activity with their own eyes. And skeptics, who cannot be frightened by any ghosts, listen with interest to stories related to this or that house. In this post, we have collected the creepiest abandoned buildings that will give you goosebumps.
There are many legends around this creepy abandoned hotel located in Cyprus. Many people claim to have seen ghosts there. “Why would there be ghosts?” - you ask. And it was like this...
In 1930, the hotel flourished and was the most popular tourist destination. Berengaria was owned by a very rich man who had three sons. When his father died, he decided to divide the inheritance in the form of a hotel and family wealth equally between his sons.
After a certain time, the brothers began to quarrel over the division of the profits brought by the hotel. And soon after the start of the conflict, they all died under very strange circumstances.
Not knowing the true cause of their death, people decided that their father and the hotel had taken revenge on them, which, by the way, turned out to be abandoned. The locals took everything they could carry away from there. And it is believed that the hotel has become a haven for the ghosts of greedy brothers.
This now abandoned building of a former sanatorium is located in Louisville, Kentucky (USA). In the 20s of the last century, this city had the highest mortality rates from tuberculosis, as it was located in a swampy area. In 1926, a sanatorium was built here, famous for its advanced methods of treating then incurable tuberculosis.
Nevertheless, the mortality rate in the sanatorium was very high. So that patients would not see how many people were dying, it was decided to build a special tunnel 150 meters long and send the bodies of the dead to the railway station through it. It was called the "Tunnel of Death".
When a cure for tuberculosis was finally found, the sanatorium was empty. After that, it housed a nursing home with a treatment center, which was closed due to terrible conditions for people. There was even talk of conducting experiments on the elderly. Since then, the building has been empty, the vandals broke the windows in it, took out all the furniture.
Everyone who visited this abandoned place vied with each other about the high paranormal activity there. In addition to strange sounds, slamming doors, randomly moving objects, visitors saw here a little boy playing with a ball, a woman with cut wrists, calling for help; a hearse driving up to the service entrance to the building, where coffins were loaded into it. We also saw the ghosts of two nurses here, one of whom hanged herself after learning about tuberculosis infection, and the second jumped out of the window.
The forgotten estate of the Demidov family is located in the village of Taitsy in the Leningrad region, about 39 km from St. Petersburg. The owner of the house was industrialist Alexander Demidov.
It is said that Demidov's daughter, Sophia, suffered from tuberculosis in her youth. So that she could, without leaving the house, arrange walks in the fresh air, the corridor of the house ran in a circle along the windows, and wide glazed terraces were arranged on the sides of the building.
The legend said that the seriously ill Sophia read a lot, and dreamed of taking up natural science, following the example of her grandfather. But the disease did not leave her. One autumn day, from the terrace of the mansion, Sophia noticed an unfamiliar young man in the park. The girl violated the doctors' ban and left the house to meet a young man. They started seeing each other every day. But one day the young man did not appear at the appointed hour. A thunderstorm broke out outside the window, and Sofya kept running out onto the front stairs to see if her friend was coming. Running out once again, Sophia slipped and, hitting her head on a stone step, died.
Since then, her ghost during a thunderstorm appears on the terrace and halls of the house.
Source: vsenovostint.ru
Actually, it's just a legend. And Sophia recovered safely and married the Chief Jägermeister Count Pyotr Gavrilovich Golovkin. She died at the age of 62.
But extreme travelers claim that in the estate you can meet the spirit of Alexander Demidov himself. If you hide on the front staircase of the house under the cover of night, you can hear rustling on the upper floors, as if something or someone is quietly turning the pages of an old book.
The abandoned Villa de Vecchi, also known as the "Haunted Mansion", is located in Italy near Lake Como. For many years now, it has attracted mysticism lovers from all over the world, thanks to its mystery.
In 1850, returning to his homeland after a long wandering, Count Felix de Vecchi decided to create a cozy nest for his family. And he succeeded. In the first years of its creation, the villa enchanted guests with its warmth and comfort. It had a large piano and a warm fireplace, the walls were decorated with expensive frescoes. A wonderful park was laid out around the villa, in which a rather powerful fountain was even installed, working under the pressure of water from the mountainside.
If you are interested in abandoned buildings and ghosts, then we offer you a kind of guide: in these abandoned buildings located in different parts of the world, according to local legends, you can not only touch history, but also meet ghosts. Almost all of these places can be visited on your own, since access to them is free, but we still strongly recommend visiting there only virtually. So, let's begin:
Berengaria Hotel
Where: Prodromos, Cyprus
The heyday of the hotel, built in 1930 by a wealthy man, came in the 1950s and 70s, bringing considerable profit. However, the death of the owner of the hotel predicted a sad fate for his brainchild. He bequeathed the management of the hotel to his three sons, who at first managed to run the family business. However, later, when quarrels began on the basis of the distribution of profits, all three brothers died one after another under very strange circumstances. They say that this is the owner and the hotel took revenge on them for failing to keep their promise. Everything that could be taken out of the hotel was taken out by local residents, and the hotel fell into complete disrepair. It is said that the ghosts of the brothers settled in the ruins of the building.
Bhangarh Fort (Fort Bangar)
Where: on the way to Alwar and Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
On the way to the castle, signs are striking, which strictly forbid approaching it after sunset, since whoever dares to do this will never come back! The legend says that a black magician sent a curse on Bangar and its inhabitants because the shadow from the fort fell on a sacred place that was intended for meditation. He cursed everyone, saying that they would die a painful death, and their spirits would remain in the castle for centuries. That's how it all happened. This castle really inspires animal fear in every mortal. The government of India somehow decided to debunk the terrible myth and set up armed patrols in the fort, but there are still daredevils.
Diplomat Hotel
Where: Baguio, Philippines
Residents of houses in the vicinity complain of chilling sounds - moans, screams, slamming doors, hurried steps - coming, they say, from the side of an abandoned hotel. During the Second World War, this building served as a refuge for refugees, repeatedly subjected to shelling and bombing. The soldiers of the Japanese army executed many innocent sisters of mercy here. When a hotel was opened in the building in the 70s of the last century, its inhabitants repeatedly imagined the silhouettes of mysterious black figures walking around the halls, appearing in the windows hiding behind the curtains.
St. John's Hospital (St. John's Hospital) 
Where: Lincolnshire, England
This hospital, founded in 1852, was created for the sick poor who suffered from mental disorders. For obvious reasons, few people cared about the fate of poor patients, so cruel methods of treatment were used on the unfortunate patients. When in 1989, after the closure of the hospital, employees were asked to remove all available medical equipment from the building, they did not manage to spend even a couple of days there. According to the men, they were constantly haunted by terrifying screams of unknown origin. Firefighters were called to the abandoned hospital more than once, as it seemed to people passing by by chance that flames were escaping from the windows. The fire brigades that came each time did not find any signs of a fire, but they saw some strange lights flickering in the corridors.
Salesian School (salesian school)
Where: Goshen, New York, USA
This Catholic school for boys was built on the territory of a former aristocratic estate. She enjoyed honor and respect until one day, in 1964, one of her pupils died: 9-year-old Paul Ramos fell to his death, falling from the roof of one of the educational buildings. Then the death of the boy was explained by a tragic accident, but at the beginning of the 2000s, this case again interested the press and special services. As it turned out, the body of the pupil lay too far from the school building: in order for it to fall at such a distance, someone had to push it, but finding the killer is, of course, unrealistic. Currently, the school building is under guard, but those few daredevils who managed to get past it and approach the abandoned building, in the window openings, according to them, saw the silhouette of a boy.
Baldoon Castle
Where: Bladnock, Scotland
During the day, the ruins of the castle do not evoke anything sinister at all, but at night here, they say, you can see the ghost of the bride Janet Dalrymple, dressed in a bloody wedding dress. According to legend, in the middle of the 17th century, her parents forced her to marry the rich owner of this castle, although she herself loved a poor guy named Archibald. However, the girl did not have to marry the unloved girl. A few minutes before the bride's entrance to the wedding ceremony, she was found stabbed to death in a room where the brides were waiting for their entrance to the altar. Some say that this is the work of a rejected lover, while others believe that Janet committed suicide.
Great Isaac Cay Lighthouse
Where: Great Isaac Cay, Bahamas
The designation of this island is not in every map, but its coordinates are well known to ghost hunters. Legend has it that in the 19th century, a shipwreck occurred not far from the islet, in which only a small child managed to survive. No one knows how his fate turned out, but still at night around the abandoned lighthouse the spirit of the child's mother, a lady in gray, roams, crying bitterly from grief. Two caretakers who lived here disappeared in 1969 under unclear circumstances. Their bodies have not been found so far. Many associate this mystery with the fact that the island is territorially located in the Bermuda Triangle, although according to skeptics, people simply died during Hurricane Anna, which carried their bodies into the ocean.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Waverly Hills Sanatorium)
Where: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
The building of the former sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis has repeatedly been recognized as one of the most terrible places in the United States. Students of pan-anomalous activity find it to be very high here. To a large extent, this refers to the "tunnel of death", which was originally cut for the employees of the sanatorium: in this way, they got to their jobs faster and safer, bypassing the rather steep slopes of the hill. And later, this tunnel began to be used to secretly take out the bodies of deceased patients: the living did not need to see how their neighbors in the ward set off on their last journey. Ghosts were seen not only in a narrow and terrifyingly dark corridor, but also inside separate rooms. So, for example, in the 502nd room lives the spirit of a nurse who hanged herself here after she, being pregnant, became aware that she had contracted tuberculosis. Those who wish to visit the abandoned sanatorium can do this as part of an excursion group.
Not all modern architects are absolute geniuses, like, for example, Zaha Hadid or Norman Foster. If the authors who build absolutely terrible buildings, which you can’t even look at without valerian. And today we will talk about top 10 most disgusting from an architectural point of view structures of the modern world.
In 2014, one of the strangest and most controversial buildings on the planet was opened in the French city of Lyon. We are talking about, which the authors of the project from the company Coop Himmelb (l) au call "Cloud" or "Crystal", and the locals simply "Hole".
The fact is that among all the other elements of the appearance of this already very angular and visually strange structure, the most distinguishing feature is the huge glass recess on the facade of the Musee des confluences, which looks like it is a trace of a meteorite that fell there during construction.
Perhaps the authors of the project for the building that houses the Bull Ring shopping center in Birmingham did not think that their work would cause so much controversy among the inhabitants of this locality. They just wanted to build a small pedestrian overpass between the main volume of the structure and the neighboring house. But it turned out to be very unattractive for them.
To an outside observer, when looking at the Bull Ring shopping center, it may seem that this building has grown a trunk, and this is very strange, given that the building has a bull in its name, not an elephant.
Edificio Mirador's 21-story apartment building in Madrid looks like it was built with LEGO bricks by some huge kid completely unfamiliar with the principles of good architecture.
Edificio Mirador has angular shapes, a strange organization of balconies and entrances, as well as a literally hole inside the building, which is not caused by anything from a visual or practical point of view. Initially, it was planned that the terrace would be equipped with a common space and a garden, but these ideas were never realized.
The residential apartment building Habitat-67 in Montreal, Canada looks like it is an anthill or a termite mound. It seems to be made up of many small rectangular blocks that have been placed on top of each other in a random order, leaving holes, gaps and just a huge amount of free space.
The appearance of the Habitat-67 building is the result of bold architectural experiments that took place in Montreal in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. And this 146-apartment residential building itself was built in 1967 for the World Exhibition, held in this Canadian city.
The Habitat-67 building was designed by the then 24-year-old architect Moshe Safdie, for whom it was a thesis. Perhaps, at the time of construction, this building looked experimental and unusual, but now one epithet is applicable here - terrible.
For the Winter Olympic Games in 2014, many new buildings and entire complexes were built in Sochi and its environs. However, not all of them are masterpieces of modern architecture. Moreover, some, on the contrary, can be cited as an example for students of architecture in the textbooks "How Not to Build".
The worst building of all built in Sochi for the Olympics is the Marriott Hotel in Krasnaya Polyana, where mountain competitions were held as part of the Games. For some reason, the strict facade of this building is decorated with five pseudo-Greek pseudo-porches, which gives it a VERY eclectic and even ridiculous appearance.
Interestingly, does Marriott itself know what architectural disgrace their logo rises above?
Connoisseurs of modern architecture have long been divided into two groups of approximately the same size. The first believes that the famous architect Frank Gehry creates masterpieces, the genius of which has not yet been understood by the general public, while the other fiercely criticizes each new project from the master. But with the advent of the 8 Spruce Street skyscraper in New York, Gehry's opponents far outnumbered his supporters.
From the outside, this 265-meter skyscraper looks like it was badly damaged by a hurricane wind or unbearable heat, and therefore noticeably deformed and “floated”. But, in fact, these unusual forms were conceived by Frank Gehry himself at the stage of creating the project.
In the small Spanish town of Ponferrada, there was and is no point in building skyscrapers, the number of inhabitants in this settlement is slightly more than 68 thousand people, and there are more than enough free areas for building. So it is not clear what the customers of the building with the name Torre de la Rosaleda were guided by when they decided to build a skyscraper.
It was planned that Torre de la Rosaleda would be used as a multi-family residential building, as well as an office center. But no one moved into the apartments furnished in the skyscraper, only the owner of the developer began to live on the top floor of the house. At first, one local television company moved into Torre de la Rosaleda, but over time, she left the building.
But the most terrible thing in Torre de la Rosaleda is not even the silence in which the owner of the building has been living for four years now, but the most terrible appearance of this house, which you don’t even want to look at from the outside.
It happens that from the back of the building they look much less presentable than from the front. The Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle is one of the few examples in the world where the facility is almost equally ugly no matter how you look at it.
The Experience Music Project museum is dedicated to contemporary art, which is also quite often very controversial. So, with its appearance, this building, apparently, prepares visitors for the horrors that they will see inside. Tellingly, this is the second ugly building from the architect Frank Gehry in our thematic review.
Speaking above about the Museum "Musee des confluences" in Lyon, we said that an outside observer may have the feeling that a meteorite fell on this structure during construction. In the case of the House Attack house in Vienna, another house fell on it.
House Attack is an unusual experiment by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. He added an additional volume to the building of one of the museums of modern art in Vienna - a private house on the roof turned upside down, as if brought by a hurricane to the center of the Austrian capital.
The ugliest building in Europe, if not the whole world, is undoubtedly considered to be in the city of Prague. This 216-meter structure was built in 1986-1992 in the form of three concrete pillars connected by asymmetrical horizontal functional platforms.
Even at the design stage, this TV tower was subjected to merciless criticism. People ridiculed its awkward forms, as well as the negative impact on the overall look of Prague - a rare panoramic shot of the city now does without a tower on it. Including if you are filming the central, historical part of the Czech capital.
In order to somehow give the ugly structure a pleasant appearance, the Czechs decided to illuminate the tower at night, and also installed several dozen figures of giant babies climbing up vertical concrete pillars on it.
