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My thoughts exactly Rose.

Apparently John was being exceptionally witty :-S

I haven't noticed Highgrove House being ugly particularly, but it has a beautiful garden ( not seen in the flesh only in mags and on tv sadly) designed by Prince Charles so I think he has taste :-D

John, I suggest you re-read my post, instead of trying to score points.


Julia in Derbyshire

Errol Supermarkets have a lot to answer for architecturally. One of worst I have seen was Tesco in Oswestry. A lovely old town. Not only did supermarkets cause a lot of local shops to close, they ripped the architectural heart out of high streets. :-(

Now it's gone I do miss the Tricorn.

It was an ugly old heap but it was familiar.

It just seems a bit open there now.

Julia :-D :-D

Second one (Maesteg Comp) was what I consider ugliest building locally. First one (Highgrove) was tongue in cheek and exceptionally witty imho. Can I have some of your grumpy pills please? Now that must deserve an rr :-P <3

I used to live in Portsmouth and the Tricorn building was once voted 3rd ugliest building in Europe. It was concrete, which went a sort of dingy brown colour, and comprised a multi-storey car park with shops. It was so dark, dank and miserable that shop-keepers left and it became one of those littered, draughty 'no-go' areas haunted by muggers. Thankfully they pulled it down a few years ago.

Does anybody remember Finefare? The local one was known as the Rubiks cube and reputedly was used by helicopter pilots for navigation because it was so garish. It is now a car park

The ugliest buildings in London England.
Personal view,

1. Besier Appartments in Old Street London. Described as " gigantic pair of Buttucks"
2. Blue fin Building on Bankside. Described as " no architectural qualities what so ever. staggeringly bad'

I will try to add others in different places.

A new Tesco has opened near me and it has to be the ugliest building in christendom. Its only saving grace is the fact that an artist has created some wonderful work to surround it but the building itself looks like something that has been dragged out of the seventies. That must be where some of the staff get their customer service skills from.

John, I find your last two posts particularly offensive. This thread is about buildings, not the people who live in them.
However, I will not give you the pleasure of being RR'd by me.

Julia in Derbyshire

Ok :-D

Was having a dig at architectural pretensions of a posh boy.

A building that always makes me shudder is Maesteg Comprehensive School (Bridgend County). Looks like a prison high above town.

Locals tell me it is an excellent school ;-)

Highgove House near Tetbury

Highgrove House was designed by architect Anthony Kack in 1796. A most distasteful building architecturally, it has been lived in by two gentlemen of no taste whatsoever in recent years - Maurice MacMilllan (son of SuperMac) and Charles Windsor, Esquire :-P

The guildhall in Southampton looked nicer with the rose garden - that used to be where the car park is now,.
The whole 'set up' was award winning in it's time.

The new museum is just a monstrosity - whoever heard of a maritime museum in the middle of a city - especially a city with unused areas of old, historic dockland!!

Sharron, not all the rooms/wards have windows. And, there is only one toilet in
A & E for patients and prisoners alike.
In the main reception, the Ladies has only three cubicles, and the OH tells me the Gents is no better.

Julia in Derbyshire

Cairo has the pyramids, sphinx, mosques and many wonderful historic monuments and buildings.......and, sadly, an unholy number of the ugliest buildings you ever did see in your whole life!
I cannot name THE ugliest, there are too many of them found lodged in between beautiful architectural works. They are built of poured concrete and remain that drab grey concrete colour as they never get painted...the pollution doesn't do them any favours either. :-)
Karen

Lucky to have a window to look out of.When my dad was in the new St Richard's at Chichester I did not visit him as often as I could because I am claustrophobic.

One little window at the end of his ward on a side wall

I am actually frightened of having to be apatient there.

Ugliest and most inappropriate building I have ever seen is the Train Station in Gijon, Northern Spain. Poured concrete. Hitlers bunker would have been prettier and all this in a square full of classic Art Deco buildings.

Some architects should just be put on camera to explain the "merits" of the trash that they create.

Sue, perhaps that is why the windows don't open, either. LOLOL

JUlia in Derbyshire

Julia,
:-D
Maybe they dont want the patients getting out of bed.!!

Sue.