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87 Ugly, Unaesthetic And Depressing Buildings That Give Modern Architecture A Bad Name

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Not all buildings are created equal. While many add value in terms of aesthetics and economics, some are just so horrid-looking that they easily ruin what could have been a picturesque city skyline.

The existence of structural eyesores has prompted people to gather on Facebook to put these monstrosities in the spotlight. And who could blame them? Once you see the photos, you will understand why these online groups exist.

Here are just a few of the photos that give new meaning to otherwise unappealing structures. Scroll through and upvote those that caught your attention the most.

#1 This Is The Swedish Architect School

Inside this ugly building in central Stockholm thousands of modernists have learned to hate old architecture and to love gray conctete. The building was actually voted the most ugly building ever created according to swedish people but the architects still love it.

87 Ugly, Unaesthetic And Depressing Buildings That Give Modern Architecture A Bad Name

#1 This Is The Swedish Architect School

#2 A New Very Sad Massive Demolition

#3 Swedish Architects Are Stuck In The Past. Tell Them It Is Time To Invent A New Style

#4 I Accidentally Stumbled Upon This ‘Technological Monster’

#5 Looks Like A Terrible Disease To Me. Another Example Of Modern Architecture In Graz, Austria. Built In The Middle Of The Historical Old Town (2020)

#6 I Shared This On My Facebook Page As An Example Of Ugly Architecture In My City (Adelaide), And Someone Said They Liked It! I Can’t Understand Why Anyone Would Say That

#7 This Is How We Do It In Portugal. Better Than Total Demolition Or What Do You Say?

#8 Was The Brief For The Architects "How Can We Design The Most Out Of Context, Tackiest And Soon To Be Outdated Addition To An Historical Building"?

#9 Not Only Ugly New Buildings, They Are Ruining Residential Areas Turning Historic Homes Into Ugly Boxes, It's A New Trend

#10 Uglytecture; Not Functional, Not Affordable, Not Aesthetic

#11 This Is A New House In Sweden

#12 Pilsen Is A City Known For Its Beauty. Now It Is Also Known For The Worst Renovation Ever

#13 How To Make An Old City Ugly

#14 Hotel Aberdeen Scotland

#15 The Monster In The Old Town

#16 Historic Building Gets Demolished For Ugly New Building In London UK

#17 The Ugly Church In Sweden Is Known As The Borg. Maybe Ugly Churches Are The Reason Why Sweden Has So Many Atheists

#18 Jean Nouvel Butchered A Historic Building In Monaco

#19 The Wet Dream For Modernist Architects

#20 Oh Melbourne, How Charming You Are

#21 This Is Why The Architectural Uprising Is Needed 😱 The Picture Need No More Text

#22 A Parasite In The Old Town

#23 Guess Who Destroyed The Building

#24 The So Called "Innovitaskolan" In Stockholm Should Change Its Name To Brutal School

#25 It Just Depresses Me The Way They Let Adelaide’s Beautiful Old Buildings Down With Shoddy Verandahs And Shopfronts At The Bottom

#26 Katowice In Poland Has Been Known As An Dirty And Ugly City So Maybe The Architect Felt That His New Building Is Blending In With The City Image

#27 Serbia

#28 Maidstone Museum Extension. They Thought They Would Go With Something In Keeping With The Architecture Of This Fine Building. Something Sympathetic And Discreet

#29 Building In Hallein, Austria. The Architect Should Be Forced To Live In This Horrible Building

#30 Funny How Modernist Architecture Ages So Rapidly And Turns Into A Joke That Is No Longer Funny

#31 The Wedge Office Building By A-Hole (Sorry A-Lab) Architects In Oslo, Norway. Tear Down That Wall Now!

#32 Built In Hamburg 1971

#33 Another Example Of Modern Architecture In Graz, Austria (Grenadiergasse In Gries). It Is Even Worse In Reality

#34 Main Library Of The University Of Graz, Austria. I Am New Here, Hello To All In This Group

#35 Parasite Architecture

#36 Modernists In Porto Decided This Is How You Build Extra Floors On Old Buildings

#37 Not Even The Old Town In Stockholm Can Be Free From Ugly Boxes

#38 I Suppose They Thought That Mural Made It Better

#39 This Is How They “Preserve Heritage” In Adelaide

#40 Architects Are Trying To Hide The Old Town

#41 An Ugly Modern House In An Otherwise Beautiful Row Of Victorian Homes. Who Approved Of This?

#42 A Very Special Expression Of Ugliness In Germany, Bavaria, Freising

#43 Only One House Survived Modernism 😡 A Lone Survivor House In Chicago, Built In 1888

#44 Norwegian Architects Seem To Dream Back To The Glory Gray Days Of 1960

#45 The Paris Massacre Continue... A New Building In The Parisian South

#46 When We Said We Wanted More Buildings With Colours Other Than Grey, This Was Not What We Meant... Sollentuna, Stockholm

#47 This Is The Scottish Parliament Building. Note The Random Sticks Across The Windows, To Prevent The Msps Throwing Themselves Out Of This Dire Architectural Mess

#48 Stockholm

#49 Catholic Church Tampere Finland

#50 Victorian-Era House Completely Engulfed By Ugly High Rises In Melbourne

#51 Which Building Doesn't Fit Here?

#52 Pre-War Building Gone. Westminster London

#53 This Is A Church 😱 Is This Where Modernist Architects Go To Pray? It Looks Like A Child’s Effort With Building Blocks

#54 The New Lilly Building In Boston Is Not Very Attractive, It Has All The Architectural Beauty Of A Grocery Cart

#55 Edinburgh, Scotland

#56 Concrete Playground And Ugly Boxes In Tychy City, Poland

#57 Street In Kaunas, Lithuania Then And Now. Well... At Least They Kept The House

#58 In Adelaide, Australia. Our Beautiful Gpo Building Sadly Overshadowed By The Monstrosities Around It

#59 When You Ask A Modernist To Renovate An Old Building

#60 Manchester, UK

#61 The Ugliest Government Building In Western New York

#62 This Is A New Elementary School In Graz, Austria (Built In 2022

#63 The Croatian St. Darth Vader Church

#64 A Gray Box Modernist Had Fun In Mexico City

#65 Serbia

#66 Tropical Fruit Warehouse. Henry J Lyons Architects. Won Prizes

#67 Expensive New Apartments In Sweden 😱 Those Are No Temporary Boxes

#68 The Träskända Church In Finland Is Known As Chernobyl Church. Maybe Ugly Churches Are The Reason Why Finland Has So Many Atheists

#69 Maybe It's Just Me, But This Is One Of The Most Disturbing Buildings I've Seen In A Long Time

#70 What Has Infected The Ransom Gillis House After They Restored It

#71 Beauty vs. Immense Ugliness. Hornstull, Stockholm

#72 You Can See A Little Bit The Background. It Doesn’t Fit At All. By The Way, This Is The Most Beautiful Angle

#73 China’s Cities Deserve Better Than This

#74 Welcome To City Also Called Boxzawa

#75 And On The Left Is A Fairly Good Modernist Building

#76 Södermalm, Stockholm

#77 Recovery Of An Old 19th Century Structure - Barletta, Italy

#78 Apparently An Office Building, It Reminds Me Of A Kgb Interrogation Headquarters

#79 Another Weird Building In Paris. I Wouldnt Say Its Ugly But Its So Strange To See That In A Legendary Place Full Of History Like La Place De La Bastille