There's like 4 buildings on this list that I would agree with you on (mainly for me because we studied them in my architecture program). But the rest imo are quite ugly. But, you know, it's a subjective list :). - Juan
I have much more of an issue with dull soulless architecture in major cities than most of the buildings in this list which are at least interesting and quirky
Hey Mike, you should change the title of the video to "25 Weirdest Buildings in the World That You Have To See to Believe" in order to receive less hate.
I like the basket building. Sure it's "gimmicky " but it's not ugly. And the inverted pyramid would be better looking if it didn't have the contrasting concrete box style buildings on top of it.
The Slovak Radio building has a surprising resemblance to the Geisel Library at UC San Diego, which is often praised as a bold expression of architecture.
nesc505 Few were truly ugly. But you should take a look elsewhere in the world so you can appreciate your neighbourhood more. They are different and unique, in fact quite amazing. They may not be beautiful, but that does not make them ugly. However, I am saying that after the pictures in the video which hardly justify some buildings, for better or worse. Some pictures even left out large portion of the building.
Sharad, his list was based on public opinion. Not just his own. Try actually paying attention to videos and you may find you have a span of attention longer than a male Duggar's orgasm.
Calling all of this buildings ugly is a disgrace to (modern) architecture and its renowned architects. Some of the buildings are considered one of the greatest examples of modernist design
I agree with many of the other comments, I think most of these buildings are absolutely stunning. I had a micro-debate with myself at the start about whether you'd include the Selfridges building in my home town and yay, there it is (#15). It has divided opinions locally, but nowhere nearly as closely as you suggest. Most people love it, and it's a major talking point for visitors (it's in a very obvious spot). My own view is that the inside doesn't come close to the promise of the outside but that's a different matter... (BTW it's a single department store, part of a huge development.
Is Paris still considered the most beautiful city? I've seen many videos showing a graffiti epidemic, squatter villages and entire parts of the city cut off from other Parisians.
ugly by whose standards? I really like most of the buildings on the video. very interesting and unique. I usually agree with you but ehhh, this one is really not comprehensible.
list25 No, you're right....modern architecture is hideous...it started taking a nose dive in the 50's PS. Hieronymous Bosch's last name is pronounced *"BAH-SH"* ....not "BOH-SH"
Definition of beauty is changed from harmony, symmetry and things generally pleasant to human senses into "different" and "original", whatever it implies in different situation. This is how music moved from Bach over Shoenberg to today's music and how other fine arts move from Rafael and Vermeer to pile of sponges by "some dude".
I liked all the buildings in this video. At least their designers were trying something new and were showing creativity. The ugliest buildings I've seen are these large warehouses that have started to pop up around the industrial area in my city. They're just large, 30 foot slabs of concrete with an occasional window here and there.
Personally I find all of these to be either creative or good looking, none of them ugly. The only way I'd ever see an ugly building is if somebody painted my family on 1.
Very nice part of Oz., Mate. Except in your freezing and wet winters :-) Noosa might lack your facilities / architecture / public transport, but we are a LOT warmer in the "cooler months" :-)
i think the architecture of the slovak radio building's a good idea if you get screwed over on land rights and find a loop hole to build past your property line because it's not actually touching the land you don't own
YES! The Basket made the list! As soon as I saw the title I knew it would be there. I drive by that hideous monstrosity every time I go to visit the in-laws! Now that the Basket is vacant, it's even uglier because no one is cleaning the mold/moss growing on the outside walls.
#24 in n. korea i think is a really cool looking building. ive always thought it was awesome. i know its basically a shell but the outside is done at least
They say that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Some of the buildings that you list when constructed were considered quite innovative for the time. If you're looking for ugly buildings look no further than Big Box Stores or McMansions building "big" just for the sake of being big is a terrible idea. The Selfridges Building was completed in 2003 at a cost of 60 million British pounds and was designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. Since its construction, the building has become an iconic architectural landmark and was seen as a major contribution to the regeneration of Birmingham's downtown. Although Selfridges was physically integrated with the Bullring Shopping Centre the client wanted a distinctive building that would standout from the surrounding buildings. Selfridges has become an instantly recognizable signpost for the store's identity. The building's facade is curved, which wraps around the corner of Moor Street and Park Street. The facade comprises 15,000 anodized aluminum discs mounted on a blue background. The Portland Building was designed by Michael Graves and is considered the first Postmodern building to be constructed opening before Philip Johnson's iconic AT&T Building (Sony) in New York. When the building opened in 1982 the building was considered to be architecturally groundbreaking at the time and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Brutalism is a stye of architecture that you either like of don't like there is no middle ground. One of the problems with many Brutalistic buildings today is they are not maintained as they should be.
North Korea's massive hotel would have been completed by the year 2000 if the Soviet Union wouldn't have fallen. Secondly its just taking up time and resources of the small North Korean economy
I'm surprised that only ONE Frank Gehry building made the list. He may have ben born here in Canada, but Canada is quite pleased that he works out of LA.
The Portland building was the least worst of the lot. I am glad you included the Pompidou center in Paris. I never liked it, and I was always the only one. People are so conformist.
I think all of these look good. Every single one of these. Except for the baby statues, but the rest of the building is good. Wanna see a real ugly building? Try the Kappal Matha Church in Uvari, India. It's a church, not a rocket.
You know, in 1889, the Eifel Tower was considered to be ugly. One Parisian famously said "I'll go there, because it's the only place in Paris where I don't have to look at it." When the Parthenon was completed, many Athenians hated it--they thought it was an eyesore. Plato didn't like it at all.
No it's ugly this is not works of art they are not beautiful. They look unattractive becuase the way they shaped these buildings are all over the place.
The Royal National Theatre and the Balfron/Trellick towers in London take some beating. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral ought to get a mention - looks like an incinerator.
I said it before, I'm saying it again. Those damn architects must have smoking dope - and I mean STRONG dope - to come up with these damn psychotic designs.
👎Birds nest stadium in Beijing 👎Mukesh Ambani residence in Mumbai 👎Gazprom headquarters in Russia 👎CIA headquarters in USA 👎Lotte tower in Korea 👎Sears in Chicago 👎Parliament building in Brazil
I actually find all these buildings a lot less ugly than most buildings in America.Add a random Burger King or shopping mall on this list and it will definitely be number 1 by far.
Louis sullivan said that line and yet his architecture is very beautiful and unique. It just seems that today's architects are getting it wrong even when they are saying it.
My suggestion for what should be on the list: the old Maritime building (and formerly part of St Vincent’s Hospital) on 13th Street and 7th Ave in Manhattan, NY, USA. The architect actually tried to make it look like a ship and ended up making it look like a ship crashed into the island and didn’t stop until it sank into the dirt. …Horrible.
I mean those structures are ugly and im also studying architecture, they are apart from the traditions but then they created something thats confusing.
Screw what the architects are thinking. Many architects submit designs for proposed buildings and it's a panel that selects the winning design. What the fuck are THE PANEL thinking and are we to assume that whatever they chose was the best of what was on offer? Because that's just batshit scary if so.
The civil engineering building on Highfield campus, University of Southampton, England deserves a place on this list, not number 1 but certainly higher than 15.
The basket building is really cool. I miss those kinds of buildings. Hollywood used to be full of them, and so did southern california. I wish people would go back to designing really cool, iconic buildings, instead of all the square blocky junk you find in cities these days.
A couple of those buildings look like LEGOs. And you should do a video on weird constructions. Include the water tower in Ypsilanti, MI. Very reminiscent of a ...well, you know. And when there is a dusting of snow on the roof...! Wow.
... Says the guy who dream to live in a gulag, next to his avatar representing the ideology that killed over 100,000,000 people in the 20th century ...
@@melmaciandissenter2324 yooooo whats wrong with you its just a profile picture it doesn't dictate my beliefs or present who i am as a person holy shit you cant say or do anything in 2020 without some bitch getting offended ... dont cry
It isn't technically wrong to refer to Devon as southern England but that term is usually used to describe the south east and mid south of the country. Devon is usually referred to as being in the south west or westcountry
Wow, some of these building are awful. I would like to add Scottish Paraliment building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. It is not nearly as ugly as the top 10 but should really have made it into the teens in this list.
A lot of these aren't ugly at all
Wiek Keiren lol true
There's like 4 buildings on this list that I would agree with you on (mainly for me because we studied them in my architecture program). But the rest imo are quite ugly. But, you know, it's a subjective list :). - Juan
I agree with you,, Wiek Keiren. I find several of these buildings oddly appealing.
Wiek Keiren Yeah, my favorite is #20, most of the bullies are like modern art
like most of these
3:20 nuclear reactors don't look like that in the first place. You're thinking of cooling towers.
Jesus. Talk about pedantic.
Yeah.
Power plant is the word you're looking for.
I have much more of an issue with dull soulless architecture in major cities than most of the buildings in this list which are at least interesting and quirky
Hey Mike, you should change the title of the video to "25 Weirdest Buildings in the World That You Have To See to Believe" in order to receive less hate.
jamdc2000 he changed the title lol nice job
16, because 9 of them are on a previous video.
Modern architecture is the ugliest architecture. Don't come here with your subjective bullshit. We need to build beautiful not ugly. It is necssary.
if these are considered ugly, then why isn't list25 headquarters on the list
hmmm, we don't have a headquarter. - Juan
list25 you should
list25 -thats the joke dummie-
is Tristen your son
no - Juan
A lot of these look cool actually.
am I the only one that I think they look good and creative
Baihas Use proper grammar.
Darragh without using proper grammar and giving it away, i would like to ask you if you noticed your grammatical error. :)
Me Cooper I was typing fast
Baihas number 16 is ugly
Baihas The title is misleading
I like the basket building. Sure it's "gimmicky " but it's not ugly. And the inverted pyramid would be better looking if it didn't have the contrasting concrete box style buildings on top of it.
school is the ugliest JK
The Slovak Radio building has a surprising resemblance to the Geisel Library at UC San Diego, which is often praised as a bold expression of architecture.
A lot of them are actually beautiful. Its ugly to you please change the title.
They are ugly if you have to look at them each single day and not a one time view
nesc505 Few were truly ugly. But you should take a look elsewhere in the world so you can appreciate your neighbourhood more. They are different and unique, in fact quite amazing. They may not be beautiful, but that does not make them ugly.
However, I am saying that after the pictures in the video which hardly justify some buildings, for better or worse. Some pictures even left out large portion of the building.
Sharad Shrestha I agree with you. quite a few are beautiful structures. and the ugly ones ... at least they are unique.
Sharad, his list was based on public opinion. Not just his own. Try actually paying attention to videos and you may find you have a span of attention longer than a male Duggar's orgasm.
Calling all of this buildings ugly is a disgrace to (modern) architecture and its renowned architects. Some of the buildings are considered one of the greatest examples of modernist design
I agree with many of the other comments, I think most of these buildings are absolutely stunning. I had a micro-debate with myself at the start about whether you'd include the Selfridges building in my home town and yay, there it is (#15). It has divided opinions locally, but nowhere nearly as closely as you suggest. Most people love it, and it's a major talking point for visitors (it's in a very obvious spot). My own view is that the inside doesn't come close to the promise of the outside but that's a different matter... (BTW it's a single department store, part of a huge development.
I can't believe they made Pewdiepie and Jacksepticeye's reverse pyramid into a real thing
Nobody gonna talk about the shard and the walkie tokie? Those two are hardcore monstrosity😂😂😂
I hate those buildings as well. Sheesh!
Is Paris still considered the most beautiful city? I've seen many videos showing a graffiti epidemic, squatter villages and entire parts of the city cut off from other Parisians.
ugly by whose standards? I really like most of the buildings on the video. very interesting and unique. I usually agree with you but ehhh, this one is really not comprehensible.
It's all good. The list is subjective so it's ok to disagree :) - Juan
list25 No, you're right....modern architecture is hideous...it started taking a nose dive in the 50's
PS. Hieronymous Bosch's last name is pronounced *"BAH-SH"* ....not "BOH-SH"
Johnathan S Yun
The Old age of Architecture was the age of beauty.
Definition of beauty is changed from harmony, symmetry and things generally pleasant to human senses into "different" and "original", whatever it implies in different situation. This is how music moved from Bach over Shoenberg to today's music and how other fine arts move from Rafael and Vermeer to pile of sponges by "some dude".
I liked all the buildings in this video. At least their designers were trying something new and were showing creativity. The ugliest buildings I've seen are these large warehouses that have started to pop up around the industrial area in my city. They're just large, 30 foot slabs of concrete with an occasional window here and there.
Boi u trippin if any of these look good
None of these are ugluy i like some of these
the one that lives in Iraq and fights with ISIS
then fuck u
Most of them are atrocious...
Tungster24 Scotrp
Maybe you should check out Old Architecture.
Personally I find all of these to be either creative or good looking, none of them ugly. The only way I'd ever see an ugly building is if somebody painted my family on 1.
#19 isn't located in downtown Louisville. It's actually no where near downtown Louisville. I know. I lived and still live in Louisville Ky.
Least it isn't bright pink any more. Then again it was handy when giving directions.
most of the buildings you refer as ugly are quite engaging and creative. we all have different tastes. ..
And different tastes should be celebrated :) - Juan
Juan, your a good guy
Yup... I agree with One...
Gilberto Ramirez Pinheiro engaging, but still ugly
federation square isn't that bad at all and it's next to some of the most iconic architecture in the world too.
Very nice part of Oz., Mate. Except in your freezing and wet winters :-) Noosa might lack your facilities / architecture / public transport, but we are a LOT warmer in the "cooler months" :-)
i think the architecture of the slovak radio building's a good idea if you get screwed over on land rights and find a loop hole to build past your property line because it's not actually touching the land you don't own
I like the picnic basket building it is actually cool
I think that the UKs Concret tower blocks are one of the worst looking structures ever.
Amazing Awesome Beautiful Creative😉
People are acting like you made a list of their family members and ranked them ugly to ugliest.
The Ryugyong Hotel is beautiful
YES! The Basket made the list!
As soon as I saw the title I knew it would be there. I drive by that hideous monstrosity every time I go to visit the in-laws! Now that the Basket is vacant, it's even uglier because no one is cleaning the mold/moss growing on the outside walls.
Yo the basket is so sick. How can u have a problem it’s just a busing white andles and a paint job
The second one looks sick
BTW I love the looks of the Beijing tv center thing.
Insane.
Tbh some of them were beautiful and some were ugly
The first few were actually beautiful TBH.
I think number 3 was the worst, at first I thought it was a pile of rubbish, literally
#24 in n. korea i think is a really cool looking building. ive always thought it was awesome. i know its basically a shell but the outside is done at least
Number 4 should be on a best looking building list
Number 18 I don't think is ugly at all. It's unique and is easy on the eyes.
They say that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Some of the buildings that you list when constructed were considered quite innovative for the time. If you're looking for ugly buildings look no further than Big Box Stores or McMansions building "big" just for the sake of being big is a terrible idea. The Selfridges Building was completed in 2003 at a cost of 60 million British pounds and was designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. Since its construction, the building has become an iconic architectural landmark and was seen as a major contribution to the regeneration of Birmingham's downtown. Although Selfridges was physically integrated with the Bullring Shopping Centre the client wanted a distinctive building that would standout from the surrounding buildings. Selfridges has become an instantly recognizable signpost for the store's identity. The building's facade is curved, which wraps around the corner of Moor Street and Park Street. The facade comprises 15,000 anodized aluminum discs mounted on a blue background. The Portland Building was designed by Michael Graves and is considered the first Postmodern building to be constructed opening before Philip Johnson's iconic AT&T Building (Sony) in New York. When the building opened in 1982 the building was considered to be architecturally groundbreaking at the time and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Brutalism is a stye of architecture that you either like of don't like there is no middle ground. One of the problems with many Brutalistic buildings today is they are not maintained as they should be.
North Korea's massive hotel would have been completed by the year 2000 if the Soviet Union wouldn't have fallen. Secondly its just taking up time and resources of the small North Korean economy
That Japanese college looks awesome.
a lot of these were cool and different from most buildings, but yeah some were ugly
What about the Stata Center at MIT. That is freaking hideous! Inside AND out!
685 dislikes come from modern architects.
I'm surprised that only ONE Frank Gehry building made the list. He may have ben born here in Canada, but Canada is quite pleased that he works out of LA.
Thank you for including the Minsk library. It really is that awful.
the American embassy in Ottawa is pretty stark...
Bet if I say the ugliest building in the world is the World Trade Center anyone will start get crazy.
Royal Ontario Museum. it used to be a pleasing Victorian style, then they went modern art on an expansion. it looks like the building has a tumour
Googled it. It really does. WTF!!!
r u shiting me it look so kewlll
John Barker
UGH! I HATE modern architecture 😣
The Portland building was the least worst of the lot. I am glad you included the Pompidou center in Paris. I never liked it, and I was always the only one. People are so conformist.
Apparently these architects were huge Minecraft fans.
I find this building rather interesting and also beautiful!
Which building
You are lost my friend go look at beautiful architecture and then compare it to the ugly shit of today.
I think all of these look good. Every single one of these.
Except for the baby statues, but the rest of the building is good.
Wanna see a real ugly building? Try the Kappal Matha Church in Uvari, India. It's a church, not a rocket.
You know, in 1889, the Eifel Tower was considered to be ugly. One Parisian famously said "I'll go there, because it's the only place in Paris where I don't have to look at it." When the Parthenon was completed, many Athenians hated it--they thought it was an eyesore. Plato didn't like it at all.
These are works of art. It's very immature to call something ' ugly ' if you don't understand it.
No it's ugly this is not works of art they are not beautiful. They look unattractive becuase the way they shaped these buildings are all over the place.
The Royal National Theatre and the Balfron/Trellick towers in London take some beating. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral ought to get a mention - looks like an incinerator.
I said it before, I'm saying it again. Those damn architects must have smoking dope - and I mean STRONG dope - to come up with these damn psychotic designs.
👎Birds nest stadium in Beijing
👎Mukesh Ambani residence in Mumbai
👎Gazprom headquarters in Russia
👎CIA headquarters in USA
👎Lotte tower in Korea
👎Sears in Chicago
👎Parliament building in Brazil
I actually find all these buildings a lot less ugly than most buildings in America.Add a random Burger King or shopping mall on this list and it will definitely be number 1 by far.
4:11 its a tribute to Bill Clinton's greatest achievement!
Funny boy
Some are beautiful MIKE. Pyongyang's pyramid is nice?
Not sure whose criteria for aesthetics you applied, but we may have different eyes on the subject.
Wait, you think nuclear REACTORS look like that? Are you sure you aren't thinking of cooling towers?
I love how Canada is not on this list maybe that's because we don't like to experiment with architecture
I am from Slovakia and I think Slovak Radio building is not that much ugly. It's creative. BTW it is from 1983. But I agree a little.
Yet most have won awards for beauty. Form should follow function, function follows form. We design and build ugly soulless monstrosities
Louis sullivan said that line and yet his architecture is very beautiful and unique. It just seems that today's architects are getting it wrong even when they are saying it.
@@javierpacheco8234 the saying is "form follows function" which is a modernist garbage saying. It's what's hammered into architects in school
Of the 25, about just ten were considered worthy of the title for me. Gosh just ask the people which buildings they hate the most!
I live 5 minutes away from the number 21 buildings in Den Bosch 🙂
I think this is fucked up, an architect probably planned their building and was so proud of it but this video calls them ugly
#18 it looks like Tetris 😂
What about the City-County Building in my hometown of Indianapolis? That is a wretched atrocity.
My suggestion for what should be on the list: the old Maritime building (and formerly part of St Vincent’s Hospital) on 13th Street and 7th Ave in Manhattan, NY, USA. The architect actually tried to make it look like a ship and ended up making it look like a ship crashed into the island and didn’t stop until it sank into the dirt. …Horrible.
Number 25 the library in chicago is beautiful!!
Every buildings post 19th century with no soul, a Bauhaus, utilitarian box, Communist look is a disgrace to Humanity.
i love almost all of these! and 25 in Chicago is a gorgeous landmark!
Me too. I just don't like brutalism.
Wow I want to understand why you find ugly architecture beautiful?
People are stupid to love modern architecture. Old architecture or the classical is the best.
The buildings are actually pretty cool!
#3 Is the most ridiculous building I have ever seen lol... it's deformed to say the least.
This man had no respect for brutalism, postmodernism, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, or Deconstructivism. Crazy 😔
I mean those structures are ugly and im also studying architecture, they are apart from the traditions but then they created something thats confusing.
Screw what the architects are thinking. Many architects submit designs for proposed buildings and it's a panel that selects the winning design. What the fuck are THE PANEL thinking and are we to assume that whatever they chose was the best of what was on offer? Because that's just batshit scary if so.
Weird, odd, strange and interesting but not ugly.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Most are really cool looking and not ugly
STOP JUDGING BUILDINGS BY THEIR OUTSIDE AND JUDGE THEM BY THEIR PERSONALITY!!!!!
The civil engineering building on Highfield campus, University of Southampton, England deserves a place on this list, not number 1 but certainly higher than 15.
The basket building is really cool. I miss those kinds of buildings. Hollywood used to be full of them, and so did southern california. I wish people would go back to designing really cool, iconic buildings, instead of all the square blocky junk you find in cities these days.
these structures are amazing
Feel bad for the engineers that had build those abominations
A couple of those buildings look like LEGOs. And you should do a video on weird constructions. Include the water tower in Ypsilanti, MI. Very reminiscent of a ...well, you know. And when there is a dusting of snow on the roof...! Wow.
i dont know what this giys definition of ugly is becuase most of these are amazing looking
He must be all about naturalism it’s okay to disagree
... Says the guy who dream to live in a gulag, next to his avatar representing the ideology that killed over 100,000,000 people in the 20th century ...
@@melmaciandissenter2324 yooooo whats wrong with you its just a profile picture it doesn't dictate my beliefs or present who i am as a person holy shit you cant say or do anything in 2020 without some bitch getting offended ... dont cry
If you actually think this is beautiful then you should honestly burn your eyes
THE KOSOVA LIBRARY LOOKS LIKE A DWEMER RUIN. IT STILL LOOKS BUITIFUL!
I think all of these look much cooler than regular plane boring buildings
Congratulations, you pronounced Melbourne the correct way instead of saying "Mel-born"
Some of these aren't ugly! The picnic basket one was very cool!
that elephant building is pretty cool dude...
The library at number 2 is really quite lovely imo
one person's trash is another's treasure! thanks for the vid tho!
Where is a Genex Tower from Belgrade, Serbia?
I think some of these are pretty cool looking.
I thought number three was AWESOME!!!!
It isn't technically wrong to refer to Devon as southern England but that term is usually used to describe the south east and mid south of the country. Devon is usually referred to as being in the south west or westcountry
Wow, some of these building are awful. I would like to add Scottish Paraliment building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. It is not nearly as ugly as the top 10 but should really have made it into the teens in this list.
Łucka City in Warsaw is alright but Genex Tower in Belgrade is sure to give you nightmares