Which ones are they the ugliest buildings in the world? Unfortunately, although we boast many big names in the field of architecture, scattered around the globe there are palaces, towers, skyscrapers and sometimes even museums that are not at all nice to see. Their designers consider them innovative works of great aesthetic beauty but people, useless turns of phrase aside, do not love them at all. Are you ready to find out what the ugliest buildings in the world?
Morris Mechanic Theater, Baltimore
In the first place is the Morris Mechanic Theater of Baltimore, building built by architect John Johansen. In 2009, a tourism site called its structure an example of great brutalism. The same owner who bought it about 11 years ago said he never met a person who liked the theater.
Zizkov Television Tower, Prague
Between the ugliest buildings in the world there is Zizkov Television Tower of Prague, which dominates the city with its childlike figures climbing it. Some think that it is a megalomaniac building and those who, on the other hand, define it as an example of communist architecture. According to most of the inhabitants it is simply ugly. It was designed between 1985 and 1992 by the architect and sculptor David Cerny.
Beehive Palace, Wellington
The Beehive Palace in Wellington, New Zealand, it is considered a modern construction famous for its shape, which resembles that of a beehive. Do you know what is going on inside? The members of the executive of the Parliament meet …
Federation Square, Melbourne
Also Federation Square in Melbourne it was included in the ranking of the ugliest buildings in the world, a contemporary construction with angular and not at all harmonious shapes, an example of futuristic architecture, which contains something destructive in itself.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Even the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, which was remodeled in 2007 by Daniel Libeskind, is considered one of the ugliest architectural ensembles in the world. It is very oppressive, a cramped place, even defined by Lisa Rochom, critic of The Globe and Mail, ‘hell’.
National Library, Pristina
There National Library of Pristina, Kosovo, is truly disturbing. Why is it considered ugly? It is not difficult to understand, because it is enough to simply look at it from the outside. It doesn’t look like a bookstore at all, rather it resembles an ugly maximum security prison.
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang
It is necessary to understand what the builder, the architect and the whole team that created the project had in mind Ryugyong Hotel of Pyongyang in Korea. Indeed, built is a big word, because this building has never been completed, so we are simply talking about a ruin, made with poor quality materials, which stands out in the center of the city.
Elephant Tower, Bangkok
L’Elephant Tower in Bangkok is a building that, in addition to arousing many perplexities, has created not a little dismay in the inhabitants of the surrounding area. In fact, it is impossible not to ask why they wanted to invest money, and certainly a lot, for a construction that has this peculiar aspect.
Petrobras Headquarters, Rio De Janeiro
The Petrobras Headquarters of Rio De Janeiro, 108 meters and 29 floors, is one of the ugliest buildings in the city and in the world, a monstrous structure to be defined, by exponents of the architecture sector, a cross between an unfinished Lego construction and a penitentiary.
02 Arena, London
What was once known as the Millennium Dome, as we now call it 02 Arena, in London, is a strange building designed by Richard Rogers. It is a huge dome, supported by large steel poles, which inside houses a cinema, a music club, as well as a series of restaurants and exhibition halls.
