What's the ugliest building you've ever seen?

Long Island City.

I know it's not a building - it's a concept, but bear with....

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On West 94th Street? Really?

Anything in white brick

am i the only one who loves white brick? especially aged, and intentionally crackling if interior.

Probably.

sighh.

The ugliest building in the UWS in my opinion is Hudson Park at 323 W 96 St. It has no excuse because it was built only about 5-6 years ago. 100 W 94 is old and looks like other common ugly buildings of its era.

In the city, or at least Manhattan, the Westin Hotel Times Square is my candidate for ugliest.

I don't hate white brick.

In Barcelona.....

http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpress/wp-content/DSC_3805b%20small.jpg

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/10851-eye-sore

White brick is fine, but the similar type of building done in beige are worse, especially when they have balconies with beige translucent glass.

Additionally, buildings with an all concrete facade. Gateway Plaza comes to mind, as does Tower 67.

The balconies at 40 East 9th Street are an example of the first type of building.

And which was the building that had windows in the shower that columbiacounty visited? Aweful.

it would be in Astoria. The absolut ugliest part of the city.

What we say about Astoria: "It's like the ugly girl that can cook"!

>What we say about Astoria

Who is 'we'?

This is the ugliest building in the city:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-future-condominium
It's so ugly, I would not buy a property that have even a partial view of this heaping eyesore.

Riversider....
don't like the building or the competition?

WE is people from Astoria

Oh, ok, very good.

>This is the ugliest building in the city:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-future-condominium
It's so ugly, I would not buy a property that have even a partial view of this heaping eyesore.

So the question is falcogold1, would you rather live in an ugly building, or live in a nice building with a direct view of an ugly building?

http://www.frogview.com/show8.php?file=14179

Not NYC but couldn't resist...

The one in Barcelona looks like it's powered by 2 D-cell batteries.

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-duplex-condos

Hate this one

But e, there's SUBZERO REFRIGERATORS!

Those are nice.

Bramstar, those are great!

That's New Jersey ugly

>This is the ugliest building in the city:
>http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-future-condominium
>It's so ugly, I would not buy a property that have even a partial view of this heaping eyesore.

I am a bit surprised. I thought this was actually one of the better looking bldgs. in Murray Hill... Maybe it doesn't photograph well, but it actually looks cool in person, in my opinion. At least, it doesn't look like those gray square bldgs. from the 1960s through the 80s and its circa-1990s/2000s brown-square counterparts you see so much in that area... I personally like the art deco-ish 1990s architecture that stands out in the otherwise boring neighborhood!!!

Besides, after seeing "William Beaver" or the "L Haus" with what appear to be exposed insulation materials, nothing else seems ugly...
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/william-beaver-house
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-l-haus

May we expand beyond apartment buildings? If so, 232 East Broadway. It was the mock location of the New Zealand Consulate on Flight of the Conchords.

http://structurehub.com/blog/2009/07/unfortunate-looking-building-of-the-day-2/

This one has always been a sad favorite of mine.

The Ellington

All of Lincoln Towers. Without question. Reminds me of the projects outside of Moscow. Dreary and soul-crushing in scale.

Most of Chump Place looks like it belongs in Dallas. Zero character. Collectively Fail.

Sorry. Trump Place.

Notice how on every listing of Lincoln Towers they never show an exterior shot of the building?

When my friends and I used to cut through Lincoln Towers go to WEA, we used to always agree that it looked like we were in Chicago.

i would add gehry on westside highway... too shtick for me..

i'd take trump intl tower over this sans gold

gehry

http://www.lindsayrgwatt.com/archives/old_blog/17_New_Buildings_in_the_Hood_files/IMG_4260.jpg

tho i welcome him w open arms to this city, as the fedora hipsters who rent my units love him

Surprised this wasn't mentioned earlier.

William Beaver House is a total disaster.

The AT&T building in Tribeca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

no windows... scary

Avalon Chrystie Place looks like the Queen Mary docked on Houston Street. The Edge looks like half the Royal Caribbean fleet docked on 7th street in Williamsurg. And not in a good way.

the ugliest building at night to me is 375 pearl, the verizon building, because of its ugly red sign. from brooklyn it's an eyesore next to the brooklyn bridge.

Just about every structure in Williamsburg.

KFsee, remember when your favorite building simply had the "bell" symbol on it? I'm not one for "branding" buildings with Times Square-style marquees, but at least that looked somewhat classy.

Right, the bell. Maybe some logos get grandfathered into our aesthetic tastes. I remember actually liking the Pan Am logo as a kid (and the MetLife logo doesn't bother me now). But a handful of marquees over the years have struck me as insensitive to the surroundings. Looking south from midtown, the giant Travelers umbrella in Tribeca was also a bummer. Maybe it's like porn -- you know it when you see it.

nyc212,
it's the terrace. It offends my eye in some outstanding way. From the second it went up it was a sign of more uglies to come. The picture is not so bad. You must view with your own eye to feel the full mental reflux it causes.

the blue brick apt building on the UES. I think that they did reclad it though recently. Truly it was heinous, and the very worst of post war design choices. I'm also not one to hate the post war white brick/red brick buildings. I think that they served a purpose and even now many of them have floorplans which work to this day.

>The AT&T building in Tribeca

Another real gem, in that area, but with windows that in this case make it ugly, is the Javitz federal building - you see it when you drive down Broadway.

Easy, Schwab House, UWS. Ugly and massive. At least the elevator operators wear nice uniforms.

301 east 62 is a close second for me. The apartments are decent, but I hate the exterior!

i was reading at the comments is that building that ugly?

trdi- which building? 301 east 62? It looks like public housing. So does Schwab House.

http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpress/wp-content/DSC_3805b%20small.jpg

Riversider, you do realize that that building vibrates at 5 different speeds in 5 different modes.