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Title: The ugliest building in every US state, according to people who live there
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URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ugliest-buildings-in-the-us-2018-1
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Author: Leanna Garfield
Post Date: 2018-07-16 12:04:32 by Ada
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Views: 863
Comments: 11
Architecture is a form of art. When a city constructs a new building, it should add beauty to its streetscape. But that doesn't always happen. Every town across the United States likely has a tower, a government complex, or an office building that residents wish never went up. Business Insider asked readers to name the one architectural eyesore they loathe in their state. Responses ranged from a building that looks like a giant wooden basket to a hotel painted solid gold. The most unpopular buildings — two that were named by nearly a dozen readers — were Boston's City Hall, a concrete structure that one person described as "depressing," and Manhattan's 432 Park Avenue, a skyscraper that another reader said resembles "a very tall trashcan." Here are the ugliest buildings in every US state, plus Washington, DC:
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Most of them are pointedly modern. That should tell architects something.
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What hideous wastes of building materials.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Gotta agree with the picks from NYS :-)
Don't know why they picked the Ypsilanti Water Tower as a dishonorable mention. It's a good old poop of an old time water tower. Certainly better looking than the herds of steel tower mushroom water reservoirs that dot the countryside most everywhere. Some folks just have a list to shore up. Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison
Agree about the antique water tower; both functional and aesthetically pleasing, to me.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Many find it an example of offensively fallic architecture, shown here just below the Washington Monument.....
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Most often, a phallus is just a phallus.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Ha, parafrazing Sigmund Fraud -- right on ;-)
_____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
Sorta looks like an old Waring blender.
Yep, Lod. There have been phallic suggestions about this old water tower for generations, but the olde structure shows off 19th century mason's work and hand-shingled roofing that you hardly see these days any more. Used to see this tower often on my way to Willow Run. Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison
Beautiful craftsmanship on that tower; all I've ever seen here are the semi-awful looking metal mushrooms, but I guess that they get the job done.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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