Ugly architecture

>>2899106
Try googling "gypsy architecture". Decadence without taste, and smashing together different styles that totally clash.

>>2899110
saw a few pics, what do these people have against clean walls?
its like every meter of wall needs to have something on it. also lets quadruple the number of pillars and windows cause why the fuck not?

Its as if someone put the idea of a woman that wears waaaaayyyy too much jewelry and makeup, and turned her into a building.

Everything feels so overdesigned... just WHY?
such poor taste

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>>2899106

>>2899271
I'd hate to live in a place like that, but I love brutalist architecture as an aesthetic especially now that the buildings are kind of getting old. There's something really appealing about giant blocks of weathered concrete.

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>>2899106

Gotchu.

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>>2899106
I lived in Doha, Qatar for a year working as an Architectural Assistant - pretty much every building there is a giant glassy blocky piece of shit.

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>>2899106
fyi this was Souto de Moura, a pretty established prize winning old fuck, not saying that makes his work good. but he's definitely not merit-less.

>pattern in wall
every poured concrete wall takes the shape of its formwork. this guy used textured formwork so the impression of timber panels leave a texture on the walls, deliberate instead of letting mistakes happen.

>extra corners
>pseudo pyramids
>color
in public buildings like this it is also sort of a sculpture not just a functional box. Look at how it sort of looks like mesas or mountains, red earthy land formations jutting out of a flat landscape and reaching up to the sky. Pyramids and ziggurats appeared in most early civilizations independantly, it's a callback to our humans roots of piling rocks up high to mark our existence in the world. Using the pyramid/mountain shape makes the building more monumental, and tap in to the permanent and large, physically and culturally.

Also they are actually lightwells so inside there's this diffused natural light in a place that from the outside would appear to be dark and dense.

I suppose you could still find it ugly but at least try to appreciate that someone took care and thought into this as opposed to all the cheap, shitty appartment towers developers keep putting up in every major city

Every building existing in Russia.

CHEEKI BREEKI

>>2899378
I actually like most of it

it's like the middle ground between >>2899110 and >>2899271. not too blocky and detail less, not too restless space for the eye

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>>2899106
This is the building for what is considered to be one of the top design/art universities in my country. They're supposed to be like pencils holding it up or something. Looks just as ugly in real life as in photos.

>>2899271
those are cool
feels like set of "Gomorra"

>>2899106
Commie blocks strip my soul away.

>>2899375
literally only good thing that I find agreeable here is lightwells and something different from major shitty apartments.

The rest seems like pretentious bullshit, it still looks pretty ugly. Horizontal patterns in lower wall mash with diagonal ones and the painting looks more shoddy than artsy.
I get the intention. I just think it failed and could do without that corner in the entrance, that was clearly not necessary

>>2899438
alright sir, you win the prize for ugliest building in thread.

Im sorry I said OP building looks ugly as fuck, this takes the cake. It makes the building at the top look like some fucking masterpiece. Holy shit.
Please do me a favour and tell whoever designed that, if still alive, to kill himself.

>>2899968
Yeah it's one ugly ass building. I always felt the irony that it's a fucking design school makes it so much worse too.

>>2899438
wew what were they smoking

>>2899991
I swear, even though design is quite practical field when it comes to art, the vast majority of people I've met from design school tends to be a empty-headed pretentious fool.

It fits, especially because from experience, its mostly who can sleep around with more people that gets the positions, not who has more merit
though it also relates to the fact that nowadays universities accept every deviantard, there are no standards anymore, art school is full of talentless wacks jacking each other off.

I'd jokingly say that they dont wanna refuse anyone cause they got burned with hitler, but I know its more of a money thing.

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>>2900000
Whatever Notch was smoking back in 2009.

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okay but have you seen the butterdome

>>2900023
well, huh.... its erh... eye-catching when it comes to color, lets just leave it at that

>>2899110
b-b-b-b-b-but i like it

>>2900023
if it wasnt for the box in lower right corner I'd say a collossal child left a lego behind

>>2899438
Giant gas station.

>>2900023
I live in edmonton and its an atrocity like why????

>>2899438
fucking OCAD is a piece of shit
I dont know who thought that was a good idea
also that art store is hella overpriced

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>>2899965
thats fair. heres more ugly buildings

>>2899438
Dude, OCAD isn't even the top design school in Toronto, let alone the country.
Like, Ryerson, Humber, U of T, Sheridan, and even fucking Seneca have better design sections.

>>2900945

Brah that shit is fire. I wish I lived in a seagull.

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I just don't understand it.

>>2900945
Hey, fuck you buddy. That shit's all kinds 'a majestic 'n regal. I'd pick such a stately bird as my home/business over any of the glass, cyclopean, failed-geometry-homework abominations major cities are cursed with these days.

>>2900991
Looks like a plastic tub or cheap toy boat.

>>2900991
>Design a building that could float in an emergency.
If that was the idea, I'd give it top marks except for that silly overhanging roof. On the other hand, that kind of makes it look like it could fly if it had enough thrust and a few of the rooms were filled with helium. The more I look at it the more I think that's a building that could really go places. Pretty deep man.

>>2899277
It has an appeal to you because it's a constant reminder to kill yourself. That's really what brutalism achieves. Disgusting, dirty concrete buildings makes people depressed and devalues land around it. Places with brutalist structures are not places designed for people to live around.

back in architecture school i adored peter eisenmann. i thought he was so pure, so objective. so explorative.

>>2901043
It's an acquired taste anon. I think you might be looking at it through a lens of living, but it's quite sexy if you just appreciate the composition of forms.

>>2899375
tfw no one will just build an actual fucking ziggurat anymore

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>>2900991
Poor old building, having to live next to this ugly tubby fuck.

>>2901124

kek

>>2901124
also kek

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one ugly big pile of crap in Lyon, France.

>>2899991
Look up the old KTH architecture building. It's depression in solid form.

>>2899110
I knew there was a reason gypsies didn't live in buildings.

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>>2901189

>>2902081

>those fucking jay-peg muzzle flash effects

>>2899438
I go here for life drawing on weekends, its a pretty embarrassing building.

>>2899106
i think that looks like good brutalist architecture dude. i like that building.

architecture is usually pretty good, even tacky them park architecture. architecture is actually so boring i think somehow having the insight to spot an ugly building sounds overinsightful and stupid.

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>>2901043
Everyone look at this tasteless faggot

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>>2900993
okay defend this rocketship house next

>>2899285
I bet you prefer flat conservative skyscrappers you block fucker

>>2902420
christ, is his bed is a racecar too?

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>>2900023
Its an actual butterdish too

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>>2901924
>It's depression in solid form.
jesus christ, you werent joking
I think the colored letters only make it worse

>>2902420
its... huh... different?

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about 112m$ to build
about 7.3m$/year in rent

all government $

>>2903210
This feels like it's so close to being really cool. Like if they had some better shapes and spacing on things, maybe got rid of lines giving the white parts a tiled look etc. I actually like the contrast of various colours between the white and the slight waviness to it all, but yeah pretty ugly as it is right now and looks out of place with those other buildings around it.

>>2899271
I love that shit

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>when everyone itt posts cool architecture

You want ugly buildings?

>>2903259
agreed, that is ugly
i understand why people think the other buildings in the thread are ugly, but i like some of them. something about stuff like >>2899438 even, reminds me of strange but pleasant dreams i've had

>>2903278
All the other shit itt is created by an architect with a creative vision. That in itself gives them merit.

If you want ugly buildings you need to look after the shit without that vision. The boring mediocrity that's made to please as many as possible while at the same time pleases no one.

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>>2901189
Come at Bordeaux and see how shitty our architecture is.
Pic related is music conservatorie, but it's compared with the Wine's city.
Supposed to be a carafon but it looks like a dick.

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>>2899106
I grew up in a post-80s midwestern suburb and feel existential dread around 99% of the architecture here. From the crass faux-style restaurants to the gaudy mcmansions this whole swath of the country deserves to be set ablaze.

http://www.mcmansionhell.com/

The most egregious building I've witnessed is probably the experience music project in Seattle. Frank Ghery is a hack. It's grandiose, with no relationship to it's context. It lacks a sense of scale and overall composition. It's overengineered with excessive style and flourish, which literalizes "music" and "dancing" in an upsetting way.

>>2900945
pretty cute

>>2901070
Why acquire a taste for shit?

>>2899285
Imagine an earthquake there. You could hear all that glass breaking in Ohio.

>>2904518
It looks like a pile of human organs

>>2904538
Because limiting one's worldview is never a good thing, unless you're a soldier.

>>2902081

Wait what... Is the VFX really this shit in blockbusters nowadays? The feathering on the muzzle flashes is beyond atrocious, it barely looks like it would make the cut on syfy

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>>2904752
I wanna die

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>>2904752

>>2899271
HATE those disgusting designs

>>2899540
this
they make my depression worse just by looking a them, I don't know why. They legit depress me

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>>2900000
>2900000

>>2904518
Looks like a smart car that was crushed by a huge wire coil.

>>2900000

f-five digits...

>>2903210
Hey do you live in umeå?