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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.

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

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.

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. :-(

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


Julia in Derbyshire

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

My thoughts exactly Rose.

Apparently John was being exceptionally witty :-S

Rose Off thread. Not talking about Prince Charles or gardens, just ugliest building in your particular county. Written this quickly before Julia flames you as well :-D :-D

Trying to be exceptionally witty again. How am I doing? :-S

Hello Wend, Strange thing. I must have woke up this morning, and lost my sense of humour over night, because I did not appreciate what John said. However, I do agree with you and Rose. Highrove is absolutely beatutiful.

Julia in Derbyshire

Indeed John, Highgrove is NOT in my county you're quite right :-D

Not been here long enough to notice anything especially atrocious, but the local council offices built in the 70s, concrete block basically,would be hard to love.

Julia, Don't expect you to agree with me about Highgrove and Maerdy Comp. I thought your post about the wonderfully designed hospital in Derby was wrong, but have not felt tempted (yet) to press the refer button. :-D

Sometimes you won't agree with a poster, sometimes you won't share their humour, but let's agree to differ. Even over the Tricorn Building. Or most of Corby town centre :-( :-( :-(

John, yet again, you are missing the point, of what I actually posted. I said this thread was about the buildings, not the people that lived in them, when you twice belittle Prince Charles, who, if it has not caught up with you yet, is a serving Prince of your country. The gardens at Highgrove are second to none.
In the same vein, I am not interested on your remarks about Maerdy Comp., and cannot see what there was in my comments to make you think I was.
As you have never been a patient, (to the best of my knowledge) in the hospital in Derby, which incidentaly, I spend half my life, thus making me more of an authority to speak about it, than it does you, I wonder why you speak about it's 'wonderful design', and what in my comments would make you want to RR what I said about it, and even threaten to do so. Unless you designed it yourself, I do not feel you are any sort of expert on this matter.
As for Corby, as I have never been there in my live, I do not know why you had to bring this place into the equation.

Julia in DErbyshire

Don't know about the County but the Civic Hall within the walls in Conwy is an abolute eyesore, at least the rear of it is.

The original building was gutted by fire in about 1966 and only the frontage was saved/retained. It was rebuilt in concrete and sticks out like a sore thumb especially as the frontage is beautiful. It backs onto the Quay and visually smacks you in the face as you approach the town from the bridge over the River Conwy.

No idea what Conwy Council were thinking of when they passed the plans especially as Conwy is a World Heritage Sight :-0

I think the old town hall in Sheffield can beat all of the counties!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthwatcher/190916931/


It was demolished some years ago - thankfully!

Julia The thread is about what is the ugliest building in our county. You threatened to rr me for my two posts, one of which was about Maerdy Comp in my county, one of which was a "very witty" remark about the resident of a not very notable building with beautiful gardens who is the self-appointed world architectural guru.

I have looked at Derby Hospital on google earth and it is beautiful :-D

John, I did not threaten to RR you.
I said I" would not give you the pleasure of being RR'd by my".

And if you think that Derby Hospital is among the wonders of the world, I suggest you spend as much time there as I do, instead of me.
I don't suppose Google Earth showed the one toilet to be shared by seriously ill patients in A & E, and the prisoners. That was so wonderfully architecturaly designed. Only by a moron.

Julia in Derbyshire

John, pack it in please - some of us get tired of it. Thank you.

For me, one of the ugliest developments in recent years has to be the new Bull Ring Centre in Birmingham, probably because I have memories of it as it was in the 50s.
I aso hate the Guggengheim Museum in Bilbao.
The town I live in now is crammed with beautiful old buildings including several 17th & 18th century "palaces".Many of them have had their ground floors converted into small retail outlets. Whose bright idea was it to let a double unit in one of them to Burger King?

Nobody mentioned the Gerkin in London. Probably a bit like Marmite. I think I like it now, though I didn't at first.

There are two lovely churches in Brum - St Peters and Aston Juxta - that seem to have been surrounded and dwarfed by modern functional buildings. Many churches in our cities are like that - St Pauls in London is quite boxed in.

Wisechild Loved Brum in 50's. It seemd so tall and solid and powerful as a city. And one of my first jobs was a Saturday boy in Tesco at foot of old Rotunda. Selling exotics like lemons off a stall. :-D :-D

My post asked which was the UGLIEST building in the county you live in