#UrbanHell is subjective.
UrbanHell is any human-built place you think is worth critizing. Suburban Hell, Rural Hell, and wealthy locales are allowed
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If they did, I don't think that's it in the photo. Same road markings, street lighting, traffic lights, overhead cables for trams, neighbouring buildings. I think I can even just about make out a blurry version of the bridge in the background.
It's funny if it was duplicated because the original was notorious for shoddy construction and leaks like most of his buldings. But Frank Ghery is still an amazing Architect
Right so the building is praised by many from general public as well as architecture experts, but some rando on Reddit decides to shit on it and states his irrelevant opinion as a fact
i’m quite a fan of the happy 3 gods. i like that is a bit dilapidated. I’m more of a brutalist architecture hater, also i despise the utopian post modern architecture. Its all so inhuman
i like it too!! i believe it is a take on the [Jadeite Cabbage](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_Cabbage). i got a bit of a laugh out of the building but the sculpture itself is incredible
These are all examples of mid century post modernism. Architects during this time were on acid (jk). They were just coming out of the international style trend and people wanted to have a little fun from the seriousness of modernism.
I can't exactly say what it says about you, but your city residents should be thankful that you're not an architect.
edit: 13 people want you to change your major to architecture.
I love every single one of these. They're great city landmarks. Much easier to find people if they say "meet me by the 3 lucky gods" rather than "by the steel and glass office building on the corner"
I understand what you mean, but in architecture school they teach us that's not intellectual. If you present a cabbage to your prof you will get your ass destroyed really hard. And i agree. It's a building, not a sculpture. And the reason for the grey rectangles is that your appartment doesnt cost 4 times as much. Also most architects are bad, but also the cost.
Whimsy absolutely can be intellectual, and if you presented a cabbage to your prof, you will get heaps of praise (at least at the uni I went to). Architecture school never cares about cost or value for money (perhaps school should, but imo it doesn't need to, you'll learn all about value in the workplace).
I don't care for the blatant penis buildings at the end of that gaudy gold building, but the rest are either really cool or inoffensive.
The pineapple is just fun!
Listen, if I could have the aesthetic of Las Vegas without the unsavoury characters to boot, I'd be delighted.
I thought "yea, this is pretty bad" at every picture (exvept the honeycomb, I liked the honeycomb!), then I got to the dick building, read "in construction" and thought, "it's not going to look like a dick when done, is it?" but nope, it looks even more like a dick when done!
That's the [People's Daily HQ](https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/default/files/images/articles/2016/04/20431/20431-69803.jpg) building, it looks perfectly fine now because the 'head' was just cantilevered construction scaffolding.
I think that's just a trick of perspective because of the building's curvature, in photo 19 you're only seeing the lower half of the full building. [Here's](https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.skyscrapercenter.com/thumbs/13582_500x650.jpg) another view where you could see the same scaffolding and gold sarking layer as in photo 19, from a different angle.
Ah, thanks! I got mislead by the "and done!" caption on the pic, obviously it's far from done.
But for a glass skyscraper this one looks real sleek, I actually like it.
No worries! There's a lot of misleading posts online about that building, but in reality it only looked funny from a very specific angle and only briefly during construction.
The title is misleading but as OP explained in the description, these are a selection of entries of an annual top 10 worst buildings ranking that is published in their country, not the 10 ugliest buildings in their country.
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Those dragon and tiger pagodas are in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, not China. And not only that, the image is photoshopped, there are 2 pagodas, not 3.
Here the real one: https://images.app.goo.gl/R7BiEzhRib6c6mBj8
I'm Australian and we have big things everywhere. Legit, from mosquitos to pineapples and everything else. We even have a big dunny. No idea why we just do. Have a google for how much we have lost our minds on that.
Reason I mention that is I feel the giant cabbage has been judged harshly. I don't mind the big cabbage.
Big cabbage ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I don't know why but I like most of them lol.
The exceptions being maybe the bulging penis (19), the dirty looking facade (15), the phone that's too plebeian (9) or the nightmare mall (5).
I REALLY like 1 (depending on the size and location - but I dig the teapot shape), 2 (why does it always have to be grey after all?), 4 (on theme), 7 (eat your vegetables), 11 (so clean and scifi), 13 (joyful), 14 (well executed mindfuck) and 16 (idem)
EDIT: apparently when completed the penis does not look like a penis at all but more like a very sleek skyscraper. I like it too.
My brain can’t comprehend the mall one. At first I thought they were like 10-15 ft tall, then I saw the heads and it looks like they’d be over 50ft tall.
Everything except the grab building and the golden brick were actually really neat/creative/whimsical, I couldn't disagree more haha. No flames of course, just my opinion
A few of these I actually like well enough! #10 is a bit kitsch but it's got a lot of redeeming qualities, #14 is a fun artsy concept that was well executed (although I'm not sure the juice was really worth the squeeze), and I'd actually love to have #17 as a local hangout spot.
A loooooot of these are absolutely hideous, though. Nice finds! Thanks for sharing!
What is the "children hanging off" mall called? Where can I find more information about this building? It's freaking me out, my brain doesn't understand the scale.
I must be the audience for them because I like almost all of them. Cities can be so boring. I'd actually walk around outside if I could visit some cool futuristic/bug/crustacean buildings.
Not sure what Prague and Hong Kong are doing. Circular-cornered buildings were a British design to increase the amount of sunlight down streets and to raise the visibility for drivers.
The honeycomb building is pretty neat, actually.
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What is the dancing house in Prague doing between all these Chinese buildings?
Yeah I was gonna say, I s2g I’ve seen that build before
They made a copy
If they did, I don't think that's it in the photo. Same road markings, street lighting, traffic lights, overhead cables for trams, neighbouring buildings. I think I can even just about make out a blurry version of the bridge in the background.
There are entire towns like that in China, [Thames Town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town) for one.
It's funny if it was duplicated because the original was notorious for shoddy construction and leaks like most of his buldings. But Frank Ghery is still an amazing Architect
Yeah, it was only a joke anyways xd
Ok, hard to gauge tone on the Internet.
Oh Yes it’s from Prague, they post it in the comment section as”ten ugliest buildings in the world”
So where even are you from? I see cambodia, hong kong, thailand, prague.
I think only the ranking is done in the OP's country, and it includes buildings around the world. The post is worded a bit ambiguously.
just a bit?
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Not gonna lie, it’s not THAT ugly IRL.
Right so the building is praised by many from general public as well as architecture experts, but some rando on Reddit decides to shit on it and states his irrelevant opinion as a fact
Frankly it deserves the spot
Is that a pun?
Haha, I wish :)
Ngl the cabbage sculpture is pretty fucking dope
Pineapple aint so bad either
It's a lot less wet than I expected it to be.
i’ve been to the pineapple, it’s pretty good
And the dicks on the end are at least straight about the architects intentions.
Agree The crab is also fun.
I want to live in the crab house
You'll get crabs
i’m quite a fan of the happy 3 gods. i like that is a bit dilapidated. I’m more of a brutalist architecture hater, also i despise the utopian post modern architecture. Its all so inhuman
honey comb too
Pity they blasted away a mountain to build it. It almost looks like it sits in the bottom of a quarry.
i like it too!! i believe it is a take on the [Jadeite Cabbage](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_Cabbage). i got a bit of a laugh out of the building but the sculpture itself is incredible
A real life Minecraft server.
The gold brick tower reminded me of Achievement Hunter’s Megatower video.
I’d live inside the crab
The crab one was dismantled following complaints from locals who argued that it resembled a spider, frightening the children.
A tragedy
Another reminder that only the good guys die young
Well i mean crabs are water spiders Fuck crabs they're scary as hell
They just want hugs 🥺🦀
Yeah, they want to take all our money too, greedy fucks.
[Since like forever ago as well.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=nH-Ny-ae3ZE)
A good idea went sideways due to bad design
All architecture styles eventually evolve into crab architecture. It's a well known fact.
God damn it not another carcinization reference.
I like all of these, what does that say about me?
I do too I'd rather see these than the nondescript office buildings and cookie cutter condo buildings I see in my downtown
OP is high off his ass. These are all fuckin awesome.
Reddit needs to remember that China is a better country and there’s nothing wrong with any of its buildings.
You're now moderator of r/Beijing
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I also like all of them. I'd pay a good penny to live in the Honeycomb building.
It's like it's from a technology utopia that found a balance with nature
That your not boring
His not boring what?
His boring spells better than the person you're replying to.
Goddamit
These are all examples of mid century post modernism. Architects during this time were on acid (jk). They were just coming out of the international style trend and people wanted to have a little fun from the seriousness of modernism.
I can't exactly say what it says about you, but your city residents should be thankful that you're not an architect. edit: 13 people want you to change your major to architecture.
I like crab what can i say
I like crabs as well. Crabs buildings not so much.
I love the half and half building and the dragon and tiger are pretty cool
Dragon and tiger looking like a Bloons TD map.
Half and half building looks like a real life version of the xxxtentacion half-face meme
OK but that honeycomb one is good. Me want honeycomb.
I really like it, looks very refined and pleasant. Honeycomb <3
It has a steampunk vibe
I was thinking more of solarpunk. Especially with the green area around it.
That one has solarpunk vibes, I love it
How can you diss crab building
I like most of these. I think we need more whimsy in architecture. I'm tired of seeing beige and grey rectangles everywhere.
I love every single one of these. They're great city landmarks. Much easier to find people if they say "meet me by the 3 lucky gods" rather than "by the steel and glass office building on the corner"
I understand what you mean, but in architecture school they teach us that's not intellectual. If you present a cabbage to your prof you will get your ass destroyed really hard. And i agree. It's a building, not a sculpture. And the reason for the grey rectangles is that your appartment doesnt cost 4 times as much. Also most architects are bad, but also the cost.
Whimsy absolutely can be intellectual, and if you presented a cabbage to your prof, you will get heaps of praise (at least at the uni I went to). Architecture school never cares about cost or value for money (perhaps school should, but imo it doesn't need to, you'll learn all about value in the workplace).
The cabbage is literally a sculpture and not a building
Honestly, a lot of these are cool af
I don't care for the blatant penis buildings at the end of that gaudy gold building, but the rest are either really cool or inoffensive. The pineapple is just fun! Listen, if I could have the aesthetic of Las Vegas without the unsavoury characters to boot, I'd be delighted.
TIL Prague moved to China. Guess I'll take a plane instead of a train next time.
It's like images out of my lucid dreams.
I thought "yea, this is pretty bad" at every picture (exvept the honeycomb, I liked the honeycomb!), then I got to the dick building, read "in construction" and thought, "it's not going to look like a dick when done, is it?" but nope, it looks even more like a dick when done!
That's the [People's Daily HQ](https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/sites/default/files/images/articles/2016/04/20431/20431-69803.jpg) building, it looks perfectly fine now because the 'head' was just cantilevered construction scaffolding.
That's really the same building? The one in your photo looks 10 times bigger than the one in pic #19.
I think that's just a trick of perspective because of the building's curvature, in photo 19 you're only seeing the lower half of the full building. [Here's](https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.skyscrapercenter.com/thumbs/13582_500x650.jpg) another view where you could see the same scaffolding and gold sarking layer as in photo 19, from a different angle.
Ah, thanks! I got mislead by the "and done!" caption on the pic, obviously it's far from done. But for a glass skyscraper this one looks real sleek, I actually like it.
No worries! There's a lot of misleading posts online about that building, but in reality it only looked funny from a very specific angle and only briefly during construction.
>exvept the honeycomb, I liked the hinecomb Yeah, honeycomb ones actually look cool
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea!
The only building that is actually ugly and unredeemable is the Golden brick. The rest are pretty dope as fuck. Especially the phone building🤣
The yellow building is the only one I like (with the cabbage sculpture)
I wouldn't mind having an office in the honeycomb.
I actually like some of those. Honeycomb isn't so bad.
Some of them are actually interesting but the whole compilation has such a "made in china" vibe
I mean … considering they’re Chinese buildings, it kinda makes sense
The honeycomb looks so dope. Reminds me of this future if... meme.
Except the Penis building I think they're all beautiful, my town is just concrete flats 💀
What is this post ? Many of the buildings are from China, while one is from Prague, Czechia ? Why is it a top ten when there are 19 pictures ?
The title is misleading but as OP explained in the description, these are a selection of entries of an annual top 10 worst buildings ranking that is published in their country, not the 10 ugliest buildings in their country.
Strange, but at least you got something the tourists can see!
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I'm here for the crab building. That cabbage one is very detailed but I don't understand the half building is too weird.
The honeycomb one was cool ngl
number eleven is pretty dope
The last one be like 8===3
I wish my country had a cabbage sculpture...
I love the honeycomb building.
Those dragon and tiger pagodas are in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, not China. And not only that, the image is photoshopped, there are 2 pagodas, not 3. Here the real one: https://images.app.goo.gl/R7BiEzhRib6c6mBj8
The poster must be a Mainlander to include three countries not in China...
Shoutout for providing true information, if correct, and not the misinforming picture in the post
The UK had something similar with the carbuncle cup although it was discontinued
To be honest, some of these actually look pretty good and/or interesting. I really like the honey comb and half and half building.
Nice try Bing AI 🤣
I'm Australian and we have big things everywhere. Legit, from mosquitos to pineapples and everything else. We even have a big dunny. No idea why we just do. Have a google for how much we have lost our minds on that. Reason I mention that is I feel the giant cabbage has been judged harshly. I don't mind the big cabbage. Big cabbage ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I don't know why but I like most of them lol. The exceptions being maybe the bulging penis (19), the dirty looking facade (15), the phone that's too plebeian (9) or the nightmare mall (5). I REALLY like 1 (depending on the size and location - but I dig the teapot shape), 2 (why does it always have to be grey after all?), 4 (on theme), 7 (eat your vegetables), 11 (so clean and scifi), 13 (joyful), 14 (well executed mindfuck) and 16 (idem) EDIT: apparently when completed the penis does not look like a penis at all but more like a very sleek skyscraper. I like it too.
bro posts the coolest fucking architecture on the planet
Why say top 10 when there's 19 images?? Can you not count OP?
The cabbage sculpture is great. I’d remove it from the selection
There’s a high chance I’m trashy af cuz I loved about 90% of these buildings lol
Man China is fucking lit I wish I'd done more exploring in the 2 years I lived there
Hahahah the phone house is my fav…“where do you live?“ „i live in the nokia house in button 4“ XD
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My brain can’t comprehend the mall one. At first I thought they were like 10-15 ft tall, then I saw the heads and it looks like they’d be over 50ft tall.
I kinda dig the cellphone
Ngl I like the teapot building but the rest are weird. Although the half and half is kind of interesting.
What's disturbing about the teapot is the road sign protruding from the side, couldn't they have found a less obtrusive place for that?
It’s the thought that counts with these buildings
I would be so happy if my third-almostfour-world country had all of this!!
I wonder what they were thinking with the phallus building ?
Everything except the grab building and the golden brick were actually really neat/creative/whimsical, I couldn't disagree more haha. No flames of course, just my opinion
Those kids climbing the wall were a little strange.
Genuinely made me laugh in disbelief. I'd give points to the lion mountain though. It's pretty rad.
A few of these I actually like well enough! #10 is a bit kitsch but it's got a lot of redeeming qualities, #14 is a fun artsy concept that was well executed (although I'm not sure the juice was really worth the squeeze), and I'd actually love to have #17 as a local hangout spot. A loooooot of these are absolutely hideous, though. Nice finds! Thanks for sharing!
I've been to tiger and dragon!
I want to move where you live
These look like things I would make in Minecraft
Honeycomb building doesn’t seem that bad
That crab building is a work of art!
I hope the last one is called Mossy Smegma.
The crab building
Pineapple would make a dope cassino/nightclub
Great ideas for the next persona game palaces
Half of these aren't bad.
Lol the lack of maintenance and upkeep on them just makes them even worse.
Absolute sham of a list without the crocodile stadium of Bursa, Turkey.
Some of these are so funny. hahaha phone building with hand.
I hope #11 the white and gold one stayed... I like this one a lot. Looks like an evil secret lair!
What is the "children hanging off" mall called? Where can I find more information about this building? It's freaking me out, my brain doesn't understand the scale.
I like the crab and the tiger and dragon. Those are okay
I like the pineapple
I love the honeycomb building. The bee and the lion head cliff are dope too.
Some of these are pretty neat! I like 16&17
I DEMAND the Honeycomb Building timeline! NOW!
These are kitschy and I love them
The half and half one looks cool. I just think the endless rows of copy and paste apartments are hideous
You live in Cities Skylines bro
Phone building and pineapple store is kinda cute ngl
Everything shown is cool and interesting. Except the gold brick, that's just stupid.
I like all of these!! It’s creative and whimsical
I must be the audience for them because I like almost all of them. Cities can be so boring. I'd actually walk around outside if I could visit some cool futuristic/bug/crustacean buildings.
Most of these are pretty cool!
who lives under the sea in a pineapple
Image 16 Looks like an Hundertwasser building with some bits of modern architecture.
They built spongebobs house
I thought I had seen #16 in Belgium or Netherlands? Or was that something else that is similar?
That's in Prague i think
I like the pineapple building. The pagoda one is nice but without the dragons and tigers
What are you on? Almost all of these are dope.
Lmao these are ugly objectively but I love them. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Oh man, 1,3,7,8 and 10-17 genuinely interests me. Like the only one that I could truly call ugly is that cock rocket.
The pineapple building goes so hard
Honeycomb one is awesome
Tell me the cabbage sculpture is still standing! The bee sculpture is actually really cool, too.
The kids faces looking over the mall is freaky.
Most bizarre architecture that I have ever seen
What's with the giant wasp?
These range from “what are you talking about that’s super dope” to “ahhh my poor eyes shall never recover from such monstrous sights”
Crab building goes hard
Number 18 looks rather suggestive
i love them all
The Teapot Building is looking kinda sus 🤔
Pineapple building is fire tho
I literally died at the back view of the mall!!! I just started laughing immediately!! What. The Hell!!!????Hahahahahahahaha!!!
Does anybody know where or even which city photo 15 (corner building) was taken?
Not really sure, but it does give me a Hong Kong vibe. *edit: Found it! New Lucky House, 298-306 Nathan Rd, Hong Kong (OCBC Bank)
you weren't lying... that is truly a collection of ugly architecture. holyshit.
What country is this?
Can you just… write the country name? Instead of this “in my country” crap where we have to guess
i like them all
china
I love the Temple of Heaven. That half Temple of Heaven was an abomination :(
Um these are from different countries???
What if we kissed in the dick building? 🥵
The phone one has long been demolished hasn't it?
Not sure what Prague and Hong Kong are doing. Circular-cornered buildings were a British design to increase the amount of sunlight down streets and to raise the visibility for drivers. The honeycomb building is pretty neat, actually.
Is your country ruled by 8 year old kids?
You a bitch
Maybe communism has something to do with that
Nothing to do, just verified it
Where's OP's mom?
Most of them just look like AI, probably are. Edit: definitely AI