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Then you would have went along with my ex , she was an architect and we were used to argue , me against and she in favour about deconstructionism , while I found it odd and ridicolous she instead found it original , "new" and as breaking the classical boring simemetrical rule , she made fun of me by falsely claiming I only liked cube-shaped buildings.
Howewer as Lawspeaker said if this style were restricted to the outskirst perhaps I would be a little bit more tolerant but putting them into our historical very city center is sorta architectural rape.
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My municipality contains many ugly buidings.
This building stood for 20 years in this condition as the owners fought the municipality over taxes.
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http://badbritisharchitecture.blogsp...ehaven-by.html
This tacky bit of rubbish. It doesn't look too bad inside of it though.
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Unlucky my city has been rebuilt in the 60s-70s, the years of the building speculation in Italy. The city was bombed and almost totally destroyed in the II WW, so the hurry to give an house to the ex evacutated people and to rebuild the city opened the gates to the speculation. The result is that the old buildings of my town now resemble a soviet city, except the former building made by Mussolini, which are neoclassical and the new buildings which are post-modern.
Buildings like these squallid apartments should be banned:
The good news is that in the last 10 years the authorities decided to improve the esthetical side of the city and to valorize it. The desire to make it "the second Riccione of Italy", so they have rebuild the tribunal, the central place, the public park, created an area only for walkers and bikes, made a new bridge, created a little borough next to the new tribunal for univeritary students, remade variouse pavements, especially in the downtown, created to air lines (the airport now offers very chip prizes to go to Eindhoven -NL -, Berlin, London, Barcelona and in project with Marrakech, plus various destination in Italy).
New tribunal:
New bridge on the sea:
Public park after the valorization works:
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Over the years I've learned that if you wanna find ugly/kitsch architecture you've gotta search for two main architectural styles: deconstructivism and brutalism , the latter is all dead now and it used to represent an attempt to improve the typical socialist way of building...
while commieblocks were mere big utilitarian concret boxes brutalism tried to embellish these with some sort of art by callin' in famous architectes but the result was almost never decent imho , they still remained too heavy.
The first style unfortunately is pretty alive and still contribute to make a landscape ugly and sometimes even to ruin a previosly well made urban corner with all their disordered structure.
Styles asides I've also noticed that the further away you go from Europe the more likely you'll find kitsch buildings , especially in Asia , very often they fail in giving architecture its true meaning , instead they mistake it for sculpture , so that's why you see buildings to bee too heavy and imitatin' animals , plants , flowers or otherwise you will see , again mostly in Asia , big concrete boxes split into two or three or with a piece of builind added because they think this mean originality , while instead the final result is ugly , deformed , out of proportion and disappointing to the eye.
Sometimes they resort to paint buildings in different colors so as to make 'em better (they assume...) but endin in , again , pure uglyness , even if this is a pattern that has also occured in Europe , especially in forme commie countries.
Grand Lisboa Hotel (Macao)
Federation Square (Melbourne)
An hotel in Tokyo...
an even uglier capsule hotel , in Tokio of course..
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@ Autobahn:
The bullet/dildo thing is actually kinda cool, all the others are absolutely horrible, especially the first one.
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Here is a particularly brutal example of Philadelphia brutalism. This African American Museum is conveniently located across the street from the uncannily similar city prison:
The inside consists mainly of wheelchair ramps separating confusing interactive machines and occasional examples of cheesy afrocentricity. If they have any genuine artifacts they do not dare display them.
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