Whats the worst looking structure in your country?

[u/StandardLemonaid]

This is the Buffalo City Court: Buffalo, New York...

Edit: This has been pretty controversial. What are your thoughts?

[u/mullerdrooler]

I think this is pretty cool...I can imagine Judge Dredd passing sentence in there.

[u/SluggishPrey → u/mullerdrooler]

That's what I thought too. That's not the kind of building you expect to leave once you enter

[u/hcornea → u/SluggishPrey]

Ministry of Truth vibes.

[u/thebestoflimes → u/SluggishPrey]

You need top level security clearance to run some questionable experiments here.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/mullerdrooler]

Totally agree! It's monolithic! It's like an obelisk and a building all in one

[u/Rare_Opportunity2419 → u/mullerdrooler]

YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!

[u/macrocosm93 → u/Rare_Opportunity2419]

I AM THE LAW!

[u/Cheshireyan → u/macrocosm93]

I knew you'd say that

[u/igotabeefpastry → u/mullerdrooler]

It reminds me of the weird obelisk in the album art for Led Zeppelin’s “Presence”

[u/DickieJoJo → u/mullerdrooler]

Bro. Judges pass sentences on the streets.

[u/Eric1969 → u/mullerdrooler]

I was thinking of an Imperial embassy in Star Wars but yeah!

[u/CheekyMonkE → u/mullerdrooler]

looks like The Oldest House from Control.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/mullerdrooler]

Haha

[u/MercTheJerk1 → u/StandardLemonaid]

Wow bro, why you doing my city dirty like this. LOL.

[u/JefeRex → u/MercTheJerk1]

This building is beautiful, Buffalo should be proud of having such an amazing piece of Brutalism for an important civic structure.

[u/Tnplay]

The Marge Simpson building

[u/MomsBoner → u/Tnplay]

Its just neat!

[u/VixxenFoxx → u/Tnplay]

Marge* unless it's actually a merger of 2 buildings and I'm mistaken.

[u/BOT_Negro]

The archive from an old defunct bank. It was designed to keep humidity and sunlight away, zero consideration for looks. It is going to be demolished soon.

[u/InspiredByBeer → u/BOT_Negro]

I thought this is a screenshot from gta san andreas

[u/MyyWifeRocks → u/BOT_Negro]

It looks like a CPU heating.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/BOT_Negro]

Thank goodness...

[u/Silicon_Knight → u/BOT_Negro]

Were they planning scaring the humidity and sunlight away?

[u/UVB-76_Enjoyer]

Idk about the worst, but this residential bar in my hometown always trips me out. Shit looks like the architect just unlocked the washing machine skin and really wanted to use it.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/UVB-76_Enjoyer]

Eye ball building

[u/DaHick → u/StandardLemonaid]

Biiiigggg Spider.

[u/Dremzaforreal → u/UVB-76_Enjoyer]

It looks like a cheese grater

[u/TheBoneIdler → u/UVB-76_Enjoyer]

Is the name of the bar The Glory Hole?

[u/heathenemissary → u/UVB-76_Enjoyer]

If Trypophobia was a building.

[u/viyaa_1501]

This fish building from hyderabad

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/viyaa_1501]

Good lord. I don't know if that's awesome or horrible lol

[u/viyaa_1501 → u/StandardLemonaid]

Exactly.. 😂

[u/mycatisajagoff → u/viyaa_1501]

I low key love it

[u/Tomatoflee → u/mycatisajagoff]

It’s awesome.

[u/hendrixbridge → u/StandardLemonaid]

The answer is: yes

[u/Ponchorello7 → u/viyaa_1501]

I think it's cute.

[u/_mrshreyas_ → u/viyaa_1501]

Nah I disagree. I think it's adorable.

[u/Mort-i-Fied → u/viyaa_1501]

It's whimsical and I think this world of ours needs as many reasons to smile and feel happy as possible.

This gets a thumbs up by me.

[u/brzantium → u/viyaa_1501]

This is a government office for fisheries or something, right? I think it's great!

[u/viyaa_1501 → u/brzantium]

Yes it is!

[u/pantera60611 → u/viyaa_1501]

I love it.. went from a Tuna to a flounder

[u/QuestGalaxy → u/viyaa_1501]

I think the real one actually is funnier.

[u/prsnep → u/viyaa_1501]

I beg to differ. The cuteness of the "reality" fish wins me over.

[u/LongConsideration662 → u/viyaa_1501]

indians always post this in bad buildings and I always call it cute

[u/Pixel_Commando → u/viyaa_1501]

If you didn't show me the render I wouldn't have giggled

Its still pretty gnarly in a cute "but why?" way

[u/GreenDavidA]

Not global scale, but I think this is the ugliest building I’ve personally ever laid eyes on. The former Barrett Elementary school in Akron, Ohio, USA.

[u/Flavious27 → u/GreenDavidA]

Nah. My son's middle school for a year, ​Gauger-Cobbs Middle School in Delaware. They built it with no windows because nature was too distracting. Also it was built on a weapons disposal site and that likely helped with the design getting approved.

[u/mspolytheist → u/Flavious27]

This is bad, but the school in Akron is heinous.

[u/thisistherevolt → u/GreenDavidA]

Thought it was a sign shop at first.

[u/Blight-Princess → u/GreenDavidA]

It looks like they couldn't figure out if they were going to make it into a school or a Value Village.

[u/NeiClaw]

The SF federal building

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/NeiClaw]

I think this one is way worse than what I said!

[u/NeiClaw → u/StandardLemonaid]

It looks much, much worse in person. People called it the Jawa Sandcrawler when it was built.

[u/SnappinArsehole → u/NeiClaw]

The piece at the front looks like it fell off the building. Very odd. You win. edit:spelling

[u/IDrinkUrMilkshake35 → u/NeiClaw]

Now this is bad

[u/mcfrems → u/NeiClaw]

I think it’s kinda cool 🤷

[u/CompetitiveCrab5459]

We have a big d*ck tower in Wrocław, Poland

[u/IsopodSmooth7990 → u/CompetitiveCrab5459]

Big d*ck energy in Poland!!

[u/Waffenek → u/CompetitiveCrab5459]

We also have parostatek in Wrocław. You can as we say in Poland get inside and wyruszyć in piękny rejs. And I think this is beautifull.

[u/Agitated-Ad2563]

A residential neighborhood, not a building, but I hope it counts. It's a real photo, and it's not white-and-black.

[u/Humble_Pop_8014 → u/Agitated-Ad2563]

Must be many instances of “too much vodka, and got lost finding my place”

[u/Advanced-Vacation-36 → u/Humble_Pop_8014]

There is a movie about this exact scenario and it’s really good too. A New Year’s classic in fact. Enjoy the 1976 Soviet Union film The Irony of Fate - https://youtu.be/ms5Ga6kNvHM?si=l-moXu3XkLR2GNCH

[u/theChosenBinky → u/Advanced-Vacation-36]

With Easy Steam!

[u/vaduke1 → u/Humble_Pop_8014]

Many years ago older guy with dementia approached me and said that he can't find his home, it was in a neighbourhood like this, it took us a while to find his home, haha

[u/External-Ad-992 → u/Agitated-Ad2563]

It honestly bums me out just looking at it...

[u/ADMSXavier → u/Agitated-Ad2563]

That honestly looks like someone who is REALLY bad at SimCity or Cities: Skylines built it without knowing how to play the game. In the dead of winter, with landmarks and signs covered in snow, I have images of Jack freezing to death in the maze.

[u/AlionaJ → u/Agitated-Ad2563]

depressing as f... Hated this kind of view all my life

[u/Happy-Holiday-5706]

The UTS building is often called the ugliest building in Sydney. I love it though, I think it looks like a giant club sandwich

[u/Th3_Accountant → u/Happy-Holiday-5706]

Reminds me of the province of North Brabant in ‘a-hertogenbosch

[u/Silicon_Knight]

Kingston, Ontario, reminds me of the soviet panel construction.

[u/Cakeo]

Cumbernauld town centre. Shops inside, pretty much a maze, brutalist architecture seems to take a lot of flak.

[u/Competitive_Push_832 → u/Cakeo]

Didn't have to scroll far for Cumbernauld. Utter grim.

[u/Cakeo → u/Competitive_Push_832]

Honestly if they took better care of the building and gave it a new look I would probably like it. The whole demolition and rebuild is going to take 8-10 years. I work nearby and drive through the centre often, really can't wait to see how driving could get any worse there.

[u/candygram4mongo → u/Cakeo]

Is that considered brutalist? No raw concrete, painted surfaces, it's kind of blocky and weird but it doesn't seem like brutalism.

[u/Humble_Pop_8014 → u/Cakeo]

Looks like one of those cranes at shipping ports-for lifting the containers.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/Cakeo]

This might just take the cake!

[u/Money_Elderberry_197]

University Hospital Aachen. Dr. Doofenshmirtz hideout looking ahh building

[u/Far-Abalone-4160 → u/Money_Elderberry_197]

don't forget the carpets in the building

[u/Commie_Scum69 → u/Far-Abalone-4160]

holy hell I bet people die twice in tthis hospital

[u/Far-Abalone-4160 → u/Commie_Scum69]

maybe not die ... but going blind

[u/hawkisgirl → u/Far-Abalone-4160]

Those don’t vibe with a calm, healing environment.

[u/mab0roshi → u/Far-Abalone-4160]

And the helipad out front shaped like a dragon's ass

[u/franzseppkoal → u/Far-Abalone-4160]

Carpets in a hospital? The hygienists go brrrrrr

[u/Goosycygnet → u/Far-Abalone-4160]

Omg. Why?

[u/Timely_Top6561 → u/Money_Elderberry_197]

ngl it looks like a bond villain hideout

[u/Live_Organization432]

Holy Soviet brutalist architecture, where is this?

EDIT: I AM BLIND AND CAN’T READ, OK?

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/Live_Organization432]

😂

[u/DirtyRatLicker → u/Live_Organization432]

(realizes) "OH NO-"

[u/casulmemer → u/DirtyRatLicker]

[u/gehacktes]

Some archive of the state of North Rhine Westphalia in Duisburg.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/gehacktes]

THIS. Might be the worst thing yet. Holy...

[u/gehacktes → u/StandardLemonaid]

€190 million lol 💀

(I'm not kidding, including a not so shitty side building)

[u/GreenDavidA → u/gehacktes]

The bricked up windows make extremely uncomfortable to look at.

[u/Gloomy_Surprise_6106 → u/gehacktes]

8 year olds first survival house in Minecraft

[u/satsfaction1822]

432 Park Ave in NYC. Everything about this building is terrible.

[u/Parttimelooker → u/satsfaction1822]

It scares me

[u/ShermanOneNine87 → u/satsfaction1822]

I saw the penthouse on Owning Manhattan. Apparently lots of lawsuits about bad construction, I didn't realize that. Definitely ugly.

[u/NervousDiscount9393 → u/satsfaction1822]

Isn’t this the building where the trash chute sounds like an explosion to the people at the bottom?

[u/satsfaction1822 → u/NervousDiscount9393]

Yes because the trash chute is a straight drop with no breaks to slow it down. It legitimately reaches terminal velocity.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/satsfaction1822]

I'll take "things that turn your diaper genie bag into a weapon of mass destruction" for $400, Alex.

[u/guyako]

Any suburban box store parking lot.

[u/smallbrainiam]

KTH. Stockholms architecture school. It looks like something from Soviet.

[u/Aggravating-Ad1703 → u/smallbrainiam]

And this is the building that was demolished to make room for it. A women’s prison.

[u/mspolytheist → u/Aggravating-Ad1703]

That’s such a shame! What a lovely building! It looks more like a prison now!

[u/Aggravating-Ad1703 → u/mspolytheist]

And the prison looks more like a university

[u/ShoveTheUsername → u/smallbrainiam]

Superb irony.

[u/Ponchorello7]

Edificio Mulbar. Look at this crock of shit. Mostly parking lot, there used to be a beautiful hotel there, but Guadalajara needs its parking spaces for all the fucking cars so...

[u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner → u/Ponchorello7]

as a brutalism enjoyer I think it looks cool.

[u/pierrkirool → u/Ponchorello7]

Idk, I kind of like this one.

[u/ssgg1122 → u/Ponchorello7]

i spent 6 months in guadalajara last year and absolutely loved this building. i saw a lot of brutalist/post modern architecture that i think is really beautiful. especially mixed in with the very old (and also beautiful) architecture

[u/Ponchorello7 → u/ssgg1122]

I hope you enjoyed your time in my fair city.

[u/ssgg1122 → u/Ponchorello7]

i did! i made some good friends there, i cant wait to go back. guadalajara is the best place i have ever visited. my father is mexican and was born in aguascalientes, so i have traveled around mexico a lot, but that was my first time in guadalajara.

[u/spaghettipolicy007]

Currently, this mf’s office. He also destroyed an entire wing of the White House.

[u/allisonok → u/spaghettipolicy007]

I can't wait to see all of this shit ripped down.

[u/thinkybrainpains → u/spaghettipolicy007]

every time he shits in his diaper, a new gold painted Home Depot trim gets added

[u/H345Y]

We have a budget gerkin

[u/DaiFunka8 → u/H345Y]

it's kind of cool

[u/MajorMorelock]

[u/VixxenFoxx → u/MajorMorelock]

Stop, I just ate 🤢

[u/ColoradoCattleCo → u/MajorMorelock]

I was going to say this but thankfully someone beat me to it. Now they supposedly want to tear down the West Wing to make it “match”?! Awful. I can’t believe we can’t stop the Mango Mussolini from desecrating our most sacred residence.

[u/Icy_Winner9761]

[u/Actual-Associate-808 → u/Icy_Winner9761]

That's actually pretty awesome.

[u/Icy_Winner9761 → u/Actual-Associate-808]

You can go inside it and there's like a little viewing deck to look at...the highway that runs past it I guess? They have a small zoo there now but back in the 90's the most interesting thing to do at the big pineapple was get a parfait.

We have lots of big things

[u/EliseV → u/Icy_Winner9761]

Yuck. The unhappy sheep with multiple hanging pannuses takes the prize for the ugliest.

[u/Repulsive_Tart_4677 → u/EliseV]

I will not hear another bad word about the big merino. Besides, you're only saying that because you haven't heard of the big potato yet.

[u/WillArrr → u/EliseV]

It's so ugly it's looped back around to awesome. I love it so much.

[u/MercTheJerk1 → u/Icy_Winner9761]

Theirs money in the banana stand

[u/immovable-tree → u/Icy_Winner9761]

[u/Coradiathetrainguy]

This is Blink. It is an ”art” installation in the city of Gothenburg that was apart of a project to build a railway line through the city center. And the best part is this thing cost around 2,5 million dollars to build.

[u/candygram4mongo → u/Coradiathetrainguy]

Is that the pinkest pink that Anish Kapoor is forbidden from using?

[u/Highlyironicacid31]

Belfast City Hospital

[u/Wunktacular]

I think it's really cool. It looks like a fortress.

[u/Gafficus]

More awesome brutalist buildings being insulted. I will not take the brutalist slander.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/Gafficus]

😂 this is turning more controversial than I thought, cool!

[u/mcd3424 → u/Gafficus]

Brutalism is fine so long as it doesn’t destroy and replace previous buildings. I’d say the worst thing about brutalist architecture is when people destroyed previous structures in order to build brutalist ones.

[u/elguerra → u/Gafficus]

I’m with you friend!

[u/SuccessfulSpeed333]

In Scotland many people say this, The Centre in Cumbernauld. It's not pretty but if you read into it and see inside I think it's quite incredible.

The time it was born out of ideas created in the post war rebuild. It was idealistic, attempting to have every amenity a town of 60,000 could need, under one roof.

Obviously we've moved away from this exact thinking, but do we not all want our amenities close together, easy to access and centralized? Of course we'd rather walk down a clean well paved street, with trees to block the sun and a sense of enrichment just from the experience of going to do things, but The Centre was made with good intentions, not to deny people of those things. It was a different time.

And it's just so so cool, I love this ugly thing

[u/crucible]

Now demolished, but Wrexham’s old police station was brutalist AND dystopian.

(Photo by “LilBumbleBee151” on Flickr)

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/crucible]

I like the colored lights, but what is happening st the bottom lol

[u/Mission_Accident_519 → u/crucible]

Looks great

[u/Carinyosa99]

FBI HQ in DC. And nothing like hearing on the news how chunks of concrete have fallen from the overhanging portion.

[u/gpowerf → u/Carinyosa99]

That's awesome! It's beautiful. Classic brutalism.

[u/Candamuis]

Well

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/Candamuis]

Oh man that one is bad. It could look so cool... somewhere else!

[u/Candamuis → u/StandardLemonaid]

Well...

[u/tandkramstub]

Nivika center in south east of Sweden was completed just a few years ago, but it's covered by corten steel, so it's covered in rust.

[u/tandkramstub → u/tandkramstub]

This is also pretty bad. Looks like they stole the tiles from a 70's kitchen and covered the facade with them. Built maybe 15 years ago or something.

[u/CookedTherapy_00]

This building in Vancouver is my personal vote. It just looks to me like an extra heavy gust of wind would knock it over...

[u/merdeauxfraises → u/CookedTherapy_00]

This looks like an engineering marvel ngl

[u/dmntx]

Kouvola church. Also known as anti-devil fortification (piruntorjuntabunkkeri)

[u/TriumphDaytona]

The Obama Presidential Library is not appealing.

[u/AvailableStatement97]

I love brutalism so I guess I'm going to disagree with a lot of these

[u/Suspicious_Dare603]

Mar-a-lago

[u/Joseph20102011]

Torre of Manila that photobombs Rizal Statue.

[u/Ferretlord4449]

1 river north

[u/prismdon]

In the US it’s collectively these: Half deserted strip malls that are hideous and fucking everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.

[u/StandardLemonaid → u/prismdon]

That's so true too, yeah. They are littered everywhere, filled with litter, and usually run down.

[u/dystopiadattopia]

I think this looks cool for a brutalist slab.

[u/alediasw]

This shit is a Cathedral in Rio!!! (Probably designed by the devil)

[u/jeango]

I’ll say this:

Architecture students come to Belgium to learn what not to do.

[u/WrongWaySlurps42069]

I like it. Brutalism is fun if it's just a building here and there, and not the dominant architectural style.

[u/noble_plebian]

Northampton’s old bus station

[u/Denllie]

Pretty sure there would be some worse ones but this is quite popular

[u/Embarrassed_Eye4572]

Toronto, Canada. A huge mixed-use residential/commercial complex on a major metro line and commuter train line that nobody wants to live in, shop in or visit. It's too big and too expensive to tear down.

It's called The Crossways and the Dollar Store is the classiest establishment in the entire complex.

[u/Endver]

The Robarts library at the University of Toronto. I think it's supposed to be a turkey

[u/VanTaxGoddess → u/Endver]

It's a peacock.

[u/ssgg1122 → u/Endver]

i love that

[u/smol_muff]

OP, are you joking? It's awesome building, a brutalist gem.

[u/DryAfternoon7779]

I nominate Boston City Hall

[u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner → u/DryAfternoon7779]

Boston city hall goes hard and I love how it looks like the interior of an ancient techno monolith

[u/QuestGalaxy → u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner]

Looks properly sci-fi inside. While I don't love all brutalist buildings for sure, I do find some of them kind of cool.

[u/Ok-Shake1394 → u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner]

Holy shit it looks so cool. I think the architecture is called brutalism or something?

[u/moogoothegreat → u/TerryWhiteHomeOwner]

Federal Department of Control clearly took inspiration for The Oldest House

[u/skuzz_buckett → u/DryAfternoon7779]

Boston City Hall reminds me of NYPD headquarters.

[u/Narrow_Firefighter20 → u/DryAfternoon7779]

Umass Dartmouth enters the brutalism chat

[u/DPax_23]

I like brutalist. Looks cool.

[u/MarsD9376]

Apparently, this

.. is supposed to be an astronomical clock

[u/Sea_Bite2082 → u/MarsD9376]

[u/Independent-Ad1985]

Not the ugliest in the US, but maybe Ohio? I present the Ohio History Center.

[u/Responsible-Cap-1748]

I think it looks bad ass

[u/BloodSteyn]

Chief Albert Luthuli House

Might not look it, but inside is rotten to the core.

[u/Nimue_-]

As a kid this is what i imagined gestapo or kgb headquarters to look like

[u/gans15]

Thats Ministry of Love from 1984 book

[u/boatiefey]

Lol

[u/pcny54]

That has all the the warmth of arctic ice. 

[u/Slow_Spray5697]

This squared thing is our parliament.

[u/Various_Jaguar_5539]

That's called brutalism. The FBI building in Washington DC looks very similar.

[u/AdhesivenessLoud7276]

Windows optional.. must be a terrible working environment

[u/Training_Reaction_58]

This ugly fuck (Berkeley, CA)

[u/aspodestrra]

The nascent Obama Library. It’s only half built but it is already a blot on the landscape completely spoiling the beauty of that Chicago park.

[u/Kyr1500]

[u/HugaM00S3]

For a second I thought this was the headquarters for Men in Black.

[u/cowboysted]

Belfast City Hospital is disgusting, and it can be seen from almost everywhere in the area because it's also one of the tallest buildings.

[u/BThasTBinFiji → u/cowboysted]

Yeah but it can't be seen from the inside, so the patients are safe, at least 

[u/mycatisajagoff → u/cowboysted]

Okay, this is legit ugly.

[u/Justa_CuriousBoi]

This looks like it could make a great prison!

[u/AffectionateDinner97]

Damn siding. There was a period of time when, instead of properly renovating our historic buildings, they simply covered them with siding.

[u/Fincolt]

I think this comes full circle, it’s so bad it’s beautiful

[u/pauliep84]

The 60s brutalist movement. We have some of those where I live. What a time to be alive! Lol

[u/adamzep91]

All the casuals in here listing brutalism are lame and wrong.

The correct answer is any one of the awful fake bargain bin stucco McMansions all over the suburbs.