Embarassing erections.

[Peter Henry]

The title alone will no doubt attract many a view and hopefully will slip below the Mods Radar!

No you smutty lot I refer to buildings! :P Some 20 years ago Prince Charles really came out with a controversial statement calling many new buildings no more than "monstrous carbuncles" even more powerful when you consider that the comment was made in his speech during an awards ceremony for international Architects!

So what's it like where you live? Are their erections that you wish just did not existed in your neighbourhood? :?

[northwind]

The entire "business park" where I work could only be redeemed by an asteroid strike.

[Filipe M.]

This thread is useless without pictures! :lol:

[Peter Henry]

Filipe..I totally agree! Come on folks post up your town's embarassing protrusions! :P

[keithd]

near to me (about 25 miles) was the infamous Tricorn Centre at P*rtsmouth.

Hideous monstrosity which thankfully was bulldozed a couple of years back

http://www.lesliefurness.com/shop_images_maps/Tricorn_smallpic.jpg

[Peter Henry]

Oooh I say Keith....first attempt and in with a chance of a winner! You don't mess around do you fella? :wink: :P

[amarko5]

there is a magistrates court (modern ) in between 2 historic old buildings in Carlisle and indeed Prince charles did comment on that very building when he toured our City years ago :wink:

I think he used the very term you refer to.


will see if i can find a picture :lol:

[Spiderman]

I believe that it was this .....

http://upload3.postimage.org/97174/whole.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97174/photo_hosting.html)

That big ears with the great taste (look at his woman) was refering to. And he described it as " but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend."

This however, imho, is the nicest erection in recent years
http://upload3.postimage.org/97196/im_30sma_01.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97196/photo_hosting.html)
And somewhere i'd really like to visit tbh. They did an open buildings day a couple of years ago but i wasnt free on the day, and friends who did go said the queues at all of the worthwhile buildings was just too long.

[Filipe M.]

Jesus Christ!!!! WTF is that?! :shock: Who landed a Zeppelin on it's beek? :shock:

[Peter Henry]

Spidey...Indeed that one would make your eyes water! :wink: :P

[tricky]

This Architectural turd is where I work.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97225/trickywork.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97225/photo_hosting.html)

[keithd]

Jesus Christ!!!! WTF is that?! :shock: Who landed a Zeppelin on it's beek? :shock:

affectionately known as the gherkin i do believe :D

[keithd]

Oooh I say Keith....first attempt and in with a chance of a winner! You don't mess around do you fella? :wink: :P

i like to win :twisted:

[amarko5]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

[Spiderman]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

Is there a reason for this uglyness?

Was it of some significance to be those colours, like it was a dairy or a butchers or somesuch?

[amarko5]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

Is there a reason for this uglyness?

Was it of some significance to be those colours, like it was a dairy or a butchers or somesuch?

nope it's the NEW magistrates court :?:

[Spiderman]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

Is there a reason for this uglyness?

Was it of some significance to be those colours, like it was a dairy or a butchers or somesuch?

nope it's the NEW magistrates court :?:


AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!
Burn it down in that case. How the hell did that get planning permission with all those nice historic buildings so close by?
Boggles the brain dont it :roll:

[independentphoto]

I think both me & Quedos can top the lot.............

...........we live in CUMBERNAULD which is so bad, it got the carbunckle award TWICE and that's out of the whole UK. You just MIGHT have seen it as the winner of C4s' "Demolition" show too.

Garry :oops:

[Ratty]

A few wrecking balls could sort out this mess a few miles from me.

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/stuartcoles/2005/05/13/sold_trafford.jpg

[cuffy]

Not so much of a building but a right pain in the ****...specially on my DAS :twisted:
The magic bloody roundabout in swindon
http://x10.putfile.com/4/10210554071.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

:oops: wrong one :D

this is the bugga :twisted:
http://x10.putfile.com/4/1021056199.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

[Spiderman]

Not so much of a building but a right pain in the @rse...specially on my DAS :twisted:
The magic bloody roundabout in swindon
http://x10.putfile.com/4/10210554071.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

:oops: wrong one :D

this is the bugga :twisted:
http://x10.putfile.com/4/1021056199.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

Thats no magic roundabout, that is in fact the only known concrete crop circle. When they dug up the fields that used to be there thats what they found and as a massive coverup they decided to use it and pretend they had designed it all along.
And Elvis also lives under it in a secret nuclear bunker :lol:

[amarko5]

Not so much of a building but a right pain in the @rse...specially on my DAS :twisted:
The magic bloody roundabout in swindon
http://x10.putfile.com/4/10210554071.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

:oops: wrong one :D

this is the bugga :twisted:
http://x10.putfile.com/4/1021056199.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

Ohh i remember my time working down there so well :lol:

White van man me , just barged right accross without any regard for the roundabouts on roundabouts :twisted: straightest possible route :lol: got me a pull form the bobbies who were sat watching in their plain car though :x

[kciN]

Keithd.
I remember going to a stag do once in Portsmouth and seeing the Tricorn..
Jeez. What a horrible building that was!!

Cuffy, I live near Hemel and that has a Magic roundabout too!!
Official name is the plough..
Get cut up all the time..

[Peter Henry]

Notice how none of the female members have contributed? Such English Roses would not want to be seen clicking on a thread with such a title! :P :P :P :P

[Spiderman]

Notice how none of the female members have contributed? Such English Roses would not want to be seen clicking on a thread with such a title! :P :P :P :P

You gotta be kidding right?

Our right dodgy contingent of biker chicks have all been in here hoping for an eyeful of something interesting :shock:
And then scurried off when they realised this thread had degenerated into a conversation about idealogical architecture.

it just got too much for them :)

[BernardBikerchick]

The title alone will no doubt attract many a view and hopefully will slip below the Mods Radar!

No you smutty lot I refer to buildings! :P Some 20 years ago Prince Charles really came out with a controversial statement calling many new buildings no more than "monstrous carbuncles" even more powerful when you consider that the comment was made in his speech during an awards ceremony for international Architects!

So what's it like where you live? Are their erections that you wish just did not existed in your neighbourhood? :?


GUTTED !!! thought this was gonna be full of rudeness !!!!! lol


i only know the goosbury or gerkin thingy !!!!
bbc

[Peter Henry]

BBC...Sorry to thwart your mucky mind my dear! Look hard enough and I am sure there is the chance of you too finding an erection close by.

[amarko5]

BBC...Sorry to thwart your mucky mind my dear! Look hard enough and I am sure there is the chance of you too finding an erection close by.

scroll back a page BBC and see the glass dildo :lol: :oops: sorry

[Well Oiled]

Not so much of a building but a right pain in the @rse...specially on my DAS :twisted:
The magic bloody roundabout in swindon
http://x10.putfile.com/4/10210554071.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

:oops: wrong one :D

this is the bugga :twisted:
http://x10.putfile.com/4/1021056199.jpg ('http://www.putfile.com')

Was that roundabout designed by a Nazi who couldn't count?

[embee]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

Any good reason why they built it in the middle of a lake? :wink:

[haggis]

The old school here built in the mid 1800's was rather nice.
http://upload3.postimage.org/100410/oldschool.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/100410/photo_hosting.html)


But deemed too small by 1967, so it was demolished and they built this eyesore. Including half a dozen temporary portacabins, still used now! This place won design awards when it was built. Unbelieveable.
http://upload3.postimage.org/100414/phs_mainbuilding.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/100414/photo_hosting.html)


This one's been in line for demolition for at least 15 years, but the council can't decide what next..... :roll:

[amarko5]

Found a picture of it the red sectioned building ( this is only a part of it ) I joined 2 photo's together to let you see what is on either side of a Blue and white ceramic tiled building in between to really nice historic buildings.

http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/Untitled_1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/97243/photo_hosting.html)

Any good reason why they built it in the middle of a lake? :wink:

taken on the 9th january 2005 the day after Carlisle's mega floods :lol:

I have pictures from the day of the floods it's rather deeper then :wink:

[Steve W]

A few wrecking balls could sort out this mess a few miles from me.

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/stuartcoles/2005/05/13/sold_trafford.jpg


Correct...it is possible to design good stadia burt this ain't one of them but then they're short of money...

The stuff that gets me is modern hosuing estates which tend to be uniform and bland and boring to a hideous extent and give the 'I could be anywhere' feeling - similarly with many town centre developemnst.

In both cases I think this is down to a combination of costs and the lack of education in good design/art/architecture in schools etc so people are prepared to put up with crap. It is not surprising that most of the good design in Britain is in London (more money) or some of our bigger cities and some of the worse in large towns.

[kjames]

The title alone will no doubt attract many a view and hopefully will slip below the Mods Radar!

No you smutty lot I refer to buildings! :P Some 20 years ago Prince Charles really came out with a controversial statement calling many new buildings no more than "monstrous carbuncles" even more powerful when you consider that the comment was made in his speech during an awards ceremony for international Architects!

So what's it like where you live? Are their erections that you wish just did not existed in your neighbourhood? :?

i cant believe i missed this thread for so long....prince charles then went on to 'back' Poundbury. a new english village, built took to look like 18th century but built in 1990's WTF... its the housing equivalent of the triumph thruxton. why !!

poundbury... i'd be interested in everyones thoughts, as an architect i think its sh!te

http://upload3.postimage.org/102050/pound384.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102050/photo_hosting.html)


and another

http://upload3.postimage.org/102066/poundbury2.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102066/photo_hosting.html)


my other pet hate at the million barratt homes up and down the country,.. all with great names. the 'hawthorn', the 'blacksmiths', the 'testicle'

[Cronos]

There are too many to mention, but for me the biggest eyesore is the St James Centre.

Basically it's a huge block of concrete slapped into the centre of Edinburgh at the expense of the existing Georgian and post Georgian architecture.

It's not just the overall ugliness of the building. The fact that it is so out of context and the arrogant manner in which it's been brutally imposed is what really annoys me. :x

http://upload3.postimage.org/102376/STJ.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102376/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/102377/STJ1.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102377/photo_hosting.html)

[Spiderman]

poundbury... i'd be interested in everyones thoughts, as an architect i think its sh!te

http://upload3.postimage.org/102050/pound384.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102050/photo_hosting.html)


and another

http://upload3.postimage.org/102066/poundbury2.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102066/photo_hosting.html)


my other pet hate at the million barratt homes up and down the country,.. all with great names. the 'hawthorn', the 'blacksmiths', the 'testicle'

Poundbury and Charles loving it is understandable. he like most of the rest of the Brits is resiliant to change. The idea of building spacious and clever buildings is not at the front of his think. His intrest is in keeping things looking the same as they did before.

If i had my way i'd demolish half of london and replace it with tall glass structures that are pleasing to the inhabitans and theose who merely look at them as they pass by. Architecture in this country seems to always be at conflist with something or other. Many other cities in the world maintain an "Old town" area of the city and then progress with the times and build modern things. Not london, oh no. :roll:

And dont get me started on Barrat homes :hackedoff:

[carelesschucca]

http://www.ar.utexas.edu/AV/Atkinson/lecture8/garden21.html

this place does well on the design stakes another building that won awards :shock: :shock:

As you can see by the lovely trousers it was taken a while back I'll try and find a new piccy, cause its even worse now as its been half demolished...

[Cronos]

poundbury... i'd be interested in everyones thoughts, as an architect i think its sh!te

It really is a horrible concept of a community pretending to be something it's not.


my other pet hate at the million barratt homes up and down the country,.. all with great names. the 'hawthorn', the 'blacksmiths', the 'testicle'

Not my cup of tea either, but I don't see it as being anything different from the following of architectural fashions over the year. This is just a bland one. :?

[Cronos]

http://www.ar.utexas.edu/AV/Atkinson/lecture8/garden21.html

this place does well on the design stakes another building that won awards :shock: :shock:

As you can see by the lovely trousers it was taken a while back I'll try and find a new piccy, cause its even worse now as its been half demolished...

Cumbernauld.

http://upload3.postimage.org/102515/Cumbernauld.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/102515/photo_hosting.html)

[kjames]

heres another...
vauxhall cross. it was done by my practise about 15 years ago... and frequently wins the ugliest building award and as frequently is in the top 3 or 4 for best building..

http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/vauxhall.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/photo_hosting.html)

whispers
not my cup of tea,

k

[amarko5]

heres another...
vauxhall cross. it was done by my practise about 15 years ago... and frequently wins the ugliest building award and as frequently is in the top 3 or 4 for best building..

http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/vauxhall.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/photo_hosting.html)

whispers
not my cup of tea,

k

so go dig out the plans , and show us all the hidden passages :wink: then i can flog em to the ruskies and retire on the proceeds :wink: :lol: :lol:

[cosmiccharlie]

Wasn't that on fire the other day, thought someone would have done it properly :lol: , but on the other hand what you showing that for , I though this was a 'U' rated site :lol:

A few wrecking balls could sort out this mess a few miles from me.

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/stuartcoles/2005/05/13/sold_trafford.jpg

[lynw]

I nominate the whole of Croydon town centre. Nigh on every building is a monument to the addiction of architects of the 60s to concrete, or illegal substances that warped their brains into thinking these buildings were architecturally sound.

So I propose that it beats Keithd's suggestion - his is only one building :wink: :P :lol: :lol: :lol:. Croydon is a series of them - Southern House, AMP House, the Council Offices, the Fairfield Halls, Magistrates Court, and ultimately the Home Office buildings Lunar house and particularly Apollo House.

Allow me to demonstrate:

http://www.thetrams.co.uk/picture.php?section=croydon&pid=002515
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gb/trams/Croydon/Croydon-2546-24-VII-2002.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield_Halls

I rest my case with:

http://www.stockphotography.co.uk/store/app/f.asp?STR=Croydon

and because it no longer appears there Ive temporarily copied it to demonstrate. Welcome to Apollo House:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y219/lynw/lunarhouse.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[kjames]

heres another...
vauxhall cross. it was done by my practise about 15 years ago... and frequently wins the ugliest building award and as frequently is in the top 3 or 4 for best building..

http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/vauxhall.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/103151/photo_hosting.html)

whispers
not my cup of tea,

k

so go dig out the plans , and show us all the hidden passages :wink: then i can flog em to the ruskies and retire on the proceeds :wink: :lol: :lol:

not sure if anyone remembers when it was hit by a missle launched from battersea bridge (?) by the IRA a few years back.... seemed to fair ok though

k

[Gnan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/uk_britain0s_worst_buildings/img/7.jpg

sheffield park hill estate

[Peter Henry]

Gnan...Now isn't that taking things a little too far? :shock:

[Gnan]

horrible contraption, it is actually grade 2 listed as well which is even worse!

it reminds me of what a concentration camp would be like if it was a council estate

[lynw]

Gnan...Now isn't that taking things a little too far? :shock:

Edit too slow... Gnan beat me to it. But a Grade II listed building??? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/D/demolition/worst2.html

covers some more.

[JakeRS]

Yes! Charter House, Ashford...

http://www.colyer-commercial.co.uk/webpic01.jpg

[Cronos]

Yes! Charter House, Ashford...

I actually quite like that one and think it has some design merit. :)