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Mimi Kumar 4 years ago

Where did all the windows go

102points

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Mimi Kumar 4 years ago

Ah nooo, the first one was so pretty

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idkwhatsmyname 4 years ago

UGLY COLOR PALATTE

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Tabernus 4 years ago

This is unforgivable

168points

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

Also Russia, but this cladding just clips on so it could be removed and the oдвук building is still under there

33points

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Tabernus 4 years ago

Birmingham central library .... There's a reason the style is called 'brutalist'

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GeoSushi 4 years ago

WHY!!!

78points

Petra Schaap 4 years ago

i automatically assume most of these buildings were destroyed in a war.

12points

Alina 4 years ago

This is what communism does, among other things

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Aunt Messy 4 years ago

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Tabernus 4 years ago

The original building was bombed

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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago

All my life, and I’m 59, I have despised that cement box style of building—-a loathing that multiplies exponentially when I discover that the fugly box sits on ground that once boasted an absolutely stunning older structure.

3points

Harley Hoglin 4 years ago

If old one was destroyed in WW2 then this shouldn't be here.

3points

Octavia Hansen 4 years ago

The ONLY reason this happened was the original was lost in the war and this was minimally better than the hole in the ground. Throw in some pot holes and shrapnel marks on the bricks and it could at least be marked as Immediate Post War. If you meet your friends in front of it, you don't have to look at it.

2points

Danilo Radojcin 4 years ago

this one is getting even better - it's the main post office building near to the old railway station in Belgrade. In the meantime - they've decided to build a GIANT monument, larger than this building, and place it just a couple of hundred meters away, and the monument looks like somebody played a lot of knight-themed video games... Serbia is going through some pretty depressing stages right now...

1point

ML 4 years ago

Still post office. But the original was very beautiful. New one is just square.

1point

Amy Pattie 4 years ago

My heart, it huuuuurts

1point

Wyndmere 4 years ago

Ugh!

1point

Elaine Dodge 1 year ago

What the hell????

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Max Christian Bacero 3 years ago

damn... They really made it worst

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Janet C 3 years ago

This breaks my heart

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klatula 3 years ago

trashy!!! ugly! another prison!

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Hugh Walter 3 years ago

The old building went, this is six stories v's seven, there's a lot of these where the ugly modern building is just in the same place but not actually a 'renovation', rather a new build. And therefore your headline is fake news and we are over-judging things which probably went in the war, were derelict beyond repair or de-consecrated?

0points

OmMarol 3 years ago

gross

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Eugen Bumble 3 years ago

Because USSR...

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Viv Hart 4 years ago

Both ugly buildings, looks like Russian script, the only lovely buildings are in St Petersburg, & St Basil's Church in Moscow.

0points

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago

how, in ANY way, is this a renovation???

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Debi-Nikita Rentzke 4 years ago

Omg... bloody hideous

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Mary Dellenbusch 4 years ago

So ugly!

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OTTER 4 years ago

Only true evil would destroy such beauty.

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Loraine MacGinness 4 years ago

'twas a beautiful building !

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Tina Harbour 4 years ago

The makeover is needing a makeover

0points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

What was that building originally built for?

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Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago

Also, not a renovation. That new building is worn and in need of some TLC, but pretty nice still!

0points

Kitty Fenerty 4 years ago (edited)

I can’t unsee this monstrosity.

0points

Maureen Peters 4 years ago

This is so ugly!

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Anna D 4 years ago

Lacking in style .

0points

Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago

Uuugghhhh!!!!

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Marianne Nielsen 4 years ago

😱😭🤮

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Bama Belle 4 years ago

This is just depressing.

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Neva Nevičica 4 years ago

Aaaah, the beautiful socialist style inspired by cardboard boxes :D

0points

Linda HS 4 years ago

Sad

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shyanna banana 4 years ago

the first onel was so pretty

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Solcarlus 4 years ago

well, am I the only one to not hate the second building? The original one was quite ugly for me...

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

Depending on where this is in Eastern Europe, this might be a result of the wars.

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Donna Leske 4 years ago

Let's string lots of wires... HERE!

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Curry on... 4 years ago

Hideous.

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MissyTheUniverse 4 years ago

This one is just sad and depressing....

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Karin Gibson 4 years ago

Is it still a post office and station....It looks awful

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mande.be 4 years ago

Why?? BECAUSE GERMANS BOMBED THE HELL OF THE BELGRADE IN 1944!!!

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Doris Bennett 4 years ago

Ugly!

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Alyssa Fry 4 years ago

Human kind is a beautiful and ugly thing

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JD Lee 4 years ago

Fugly. Looks like an old box.

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ArhomR 4 years ago

Crying.

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bv7hearts 4 years ago

This is just painful.

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pansexualandproud 4 years ago

now it just looks ugly

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Daune Jaimes Diaz Premium 4 years ago

No no no no no

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Bobby Stahr 4 years ago

ugly

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Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago

Why Russia, why?

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Milos Momcilovic 4 years ago

Srbija, nije Rusija

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Krazy Kat 4 years ago

Just plain ugly !

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Ashley Conover 4 years ago

Ugly

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HissyFitzz 4 years ago

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! It was so beautiful now its a beige block.

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Popcorn Colonel 4 years ago

IT was such a grand and beautiful building and you ruined it.... you had 1 job!

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Tiari 4 years ago

Not bombing Russia?

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leafy_tree 4 years ago

wow, so spiky

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Popcorn Colonel 4 years ago

OMG! The first pic was really cute! Why would ANYONE do such a thing?

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ShawtyCantComeToThePhone 4 years ago

hey janice let's replace this beautiful building with a yellow block

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leafy_tree 4 years ago

nooo....they ruined the historical atmosphere

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ShawtyCantComeToThePhone 4 years ago

What the heck am i looking at

27points

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Bobby Stahr 4 years ago

Sigh

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Becklass 4 years ago

It’s like the lovely old building had been eaten by an ugly one.

53points

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Monika Rhodes 4 years ago

Idk, I kind of like the NOW better.

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Mimi Kumar 4 years ago

The roof of the right building is completely lopsided

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H Edwards 4 years ago

I like this, doesn't detract from the other houses.

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H Edwards 4 years ago

I don't mind this one, in fact I think it's an improvement. The original building isn't anything special.

218points

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ArhomR 4 years ago

Prison block.

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Raine Soo 4 years ago

X marks the spot. This is Monteal.

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H Edwards 4 years ago

Nobody would tear down an original Tudor building these days, thankfully.

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Tabernus 4 years ago

This is a pretty lazy list - many of the original buildings were either bombed or cleared after WW2. In many instances the replacement buildings were put up quickly and cheaply, or were genuinely believed to be cutting edge in the '60's

76points

Kendra Miller 4 years ago

Thank you for clarifying that. Usually in architecture you can see bones and remnants left from the original, but many of these were clearly different.

22points

Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

I so much agree with you because nope, I do not like mindless posts. This one is made for easy outrage and condemnation - without having a single fact presented about the buildings. Where is the building? Is is structurally sound? Is it possible to renovate it? What has it been converted into, i.e. what is it used for? Private or public ownership? North western Europe is littered with disused churches and I cannot see why a much more secular modern society should have to keep every church as it once was. That money is much better spent on health and education, if you ask me.

9points

RaroaRaroa 4 years ago

Yes, someone doesn't know the meaning of 'renovation'. Most of these are replacements.

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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago

In the case of the Tamworth ones, it was just pure commercial expansion. A lot of the shops and pubs are still the original Tudor buildings with and are listed buildings now and can't be altered any further

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Ivan Wahl 4 years ago

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Kel Gal 4 years ago

I imagine that so many of the before buildings were in such bad condition that it was less expensive and safer to tear them down.

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Jutta Plötz 10 months ago

Most of them were destroyed during the war

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Harley Hoglin 4 years ago

Every photo that shows a building destroyed in WW2 and what replaced it needs to be removed. Comparing what became a bombed out pile of rubble to a new building is bullshit.

37points

Ivan Wahl 4 years ago

If we were misled on even one of the photos it negates the entire premise of the post. Replaced is not renovated and if a major portion of the original building was destroyed and replaced with something else entirely that does not qualify as a renovation either.

15points

Jerry Juneau 3 years ago

Not all of those were not WWII bombed buildings. Besides, in the Atomic age 1950’s-1960’s, many of the 1800-1900’s buildings were razed for modern buildings. We are now seeing things like that happen again where our mid century buildings are outdated, un functional and in many ways, unsafe. It is the natural cycle. Not all buildings are relevant or practical enough to be saved.

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GDOY 4 years ago

Not really, I recognize a few from Montreal

0points

Russell Ellwardt 4 years ago

Many of these are not renovations but replacements. This "list" is no list. Totally useless.

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Paulina 4 years ago

The title of this post is so misleading 😠 Those are NOT renovations! Most of the pictures show what was in that spot decades ago and then what's there now. Given most of those are from Europe it's safe to say that "before" buildings no longer exist because of the bombings in WW2 or were torn down not much later due to damages.

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mph seti 4 years ago

A lot of the time, this is done because there's really no other choice. An old building is falling apart and otherwise unsafe/unusable as is. We don't t know the full stories, here. That said, turning something charming and comfortable into something Brutalist or Minimalist isn't usually a good idea. Especially when it's a result of gentrification driving out people in favor of new, wealthier, people.

4points

Petra Schaap 4 years ago

i kinda like Brutalism... its so ugly and weird that its fascinating... its a part of history now, but I dont understand they thought it was a good idea back then.

1point

Olivia Agave 4 years ago

Most of these were either damaged or destroyed in WW2, or the original structure was unstable after being abandoned for years. Now, if you want something gross that doesn't come under these conditions - Maidstone Museum, listed old mansion house that they cut a hole in and slapped a burning gold and glass structure on the side of. maidstone-...f1baca.jpg

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StardustRainO8 4 years ago

I don't know any historcial facts or storys behind these bulidings, but people shuld take a look back and appericate the buliding thats aleready there.

3points

CamlikesCookies 4 years ago

Reverse renovations of bad sims 4 builds.

2points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

A lot of the old buildings got bombed so that's a valid reason to replace them with was considered modern architecture. Sadly even today beautiful buildings get destroyed because a council wants to "step into the future" by building ghastly concrete towers. That's why a lot of cities are so terrible depressing. Grey pavement, grey buildings, black tarmac.

2points

Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago

Sad. After look like The sims 4 buildings

1point

Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago

Need Memories and museum.

1point

Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago (edited)

Sad. Before old building look beautiful and interesting. Lazy after new build. I hate new build like modern buildings. I like vintage and cozy old things.

1point

Shelp 4 years ago

There's a real discrepancy between what architects are taught to find ''beautiful'', and what the people actually like

1point

fainasKeturatis 4 years ago

"renovation" is not building from the foundation on the remains of last building but renewing or "making something look new again". Half of those are not "renovations".

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no_name 4 years ago

Let me just point out that not every building survives hundreds of years intact and very often they need to be demolished, and sometimes it happens that during wars buidings (and not just buildings) are destroyed. In those cases, noone creates an exact replica of something once built, but tries to come up with new modern ideas, not necessarily better of prettier, but that's the way it is.

1point

mande.be 4 years ago

List is badly assembled. Because, many of the "older" buildings on the photos were BOMBED OR TEARED DOWN IN WAR! Do not forget that many countries in Europe had to rebuild themselves in a fastest possible time, so many of them are not really well perceived at the time.

1point

lara 4 years ago

In Russia this type of architecture is called "Stalinist." The horrific monster buildings he had built in Moscow are called "The Seven Ugly Sisters".

1point

Petra Schaap 4 years ago

are they considered ugly? I love them! O_O

1point

person (i think) 4 years ago

Dumb list. Most of these are re-builds, not "renovations". Two totally different things.

1point

Tabitha L 4 years ago

A list like this is incomplete without NYC Penn Station before and after. Watch this and have your heart broken - https://youtu.be/_vby82-Z60s

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El muerto 4 years ago

many of these are down to destruction during war...but too many horrible examples of bad taste

1point

H Edwards 4 years ago

The Birmingham city centre one was done in the 1970s. From the 1950s to the 1980s there was a lot of this in the UK.

2points

Petra Schaap 4 years ago

@Charlotte: Im so fascinated with what they did in the centre of Stockholm/Sveavägen in the name of city renewing. The Swedes were (among) the first I think. But the glass fountain in Sergelstorget is beautifull.

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alexpcorn 4 years ago

El muerto -

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Eliyahu Rooff 4 years ago

It's also worth remembering that many old buildings have deteriorated to the point where restoration is prohibitively expensive, even if the original was beautiful. They often don't meet modern safety standards, and would require that builders tear them down to bare bones to retrofit them so they are energy efficient and safe.

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Steve Cruz 4 years ago

Photos a century old don't show what state the property was in when it was renovated or replaced. The Regency-era (early 1800s) buildings where the Birmingham City Library (built in the 1950s) had been bombed.

0points

Kitty Fenerty 4 years ago

I wish I hadn’t looked at these pictures. Utterly depressing.

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pebs 4 years ago

The title is incorrect: most of these buildings were destroyed by the war and replaced by new buildings, they weren't "renovated".

0points

Dave 4 years ago

These buildings were not renovated, most were torn down and a new building was built!

0points

Elica 4 years ago

Going through the post I was like "what??!" in minion accent for every single one of them...

0points

Jocelyn 4 years ago

i would hardly call most of these "renovations"

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Łukasz Markuszewski 4 years ago

As Tabernus said - the WW2 is responsible for most of this devastations. We must also remember, that a lot of old buildings, especially housing, was not very nice to live in - lack of toilets, dark patios, narrow backstreets, lack of elevators - many of them looked nice but during '50 and '60 they were considered unlivable and obscure. This is why they were demolished and replaced with modernist blocks, even though some of the demolishings were controversial back then. In Poland we have a lot of very modern demolishings (the reason is corrupted governments allowing developers to destroy original urban structure), one of the most known is "renovation" of 14th century Dzialdowo Castle. They put styrofoam on it and then colours. Luckily it was stopped and reversed by the old monuments protection institution. See below: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DR3tIdFbbUWaxCEasghRxhjHn1kgQXRn654uPjS1ogq2k79wbT9TyPuCJ9Vw6pXt5TIxY4_pjTyvr-SSsw

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El Dee 4 years ago

Horrific! Slabs of concrete and/or glass that look awful from the outside and are awful to work in too. Made worse by the fact that the previous buildings WERE aesthetically pleasing..

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marianne eliza 4 years ago

Now now. I'm sure if the author actually knew what renovation means, they would have chosen differently. But it is so hard to learn new vocabulary.

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Data1001 4 years ago

In addition to the point several other comments made, I think a lot of these were gradual changes, as well. It wasn't like overnight they went from a beautiful gothic building to some ugly modern cookie-cutter design. Not to mention that at the time when many of them were built, that style was very common, and probably wasn't thought of as anything outrageously special, so when updates needed to be made, little thought was given to keeping the style of the previous build, which was probably thought to be outdated at the time of the renovation.

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David Donaldson 4 years ago

For a contributor that studied English linguistics their understanding of the word "Renovated" leave a lot to be desired.

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Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago

Pre 1964 and current Penn Station in NY should be on here.

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Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

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marlene 4 years ago

this was painful to look at

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spoklo 4 years ago

marlene like

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Rob Chapman 4 years ago

Sometimes this happens in reverse. The Chronicle Building in San Francisco (built in the 1890's), was damaged in the 1906 earthquake & rebuilt by 1915 (very close to it's 1890's appearance). It was modernized in 1962 with an aluminum & glass exterior, and then restored back to it's 1915 appearance in 2014.

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Tahani 4 years ago

Sigh

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Sandij D 4 years ago

This happens all over especially as real estate/rental costs increase. It is mostly not due to war damage or the inability to renovate. Often the facades of the 'new' buildings are put on top of, next to and over the old building in order to increase the space and, therefore, the $$$ made off each site. Several that I am very familiar with were supposed to be heritage sites - before someone with money and connections came in and snatched the property up.

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Julie Johnson 4 years ago

Some people wouldn’t recognise beautiful architecture if it fell on them or the skill and craftsmanship it took to create it.

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Lærke Littlebird 4 years ago

It's not renovating if you replace old with new. Renovating means keeping at least some part of the old.

0points

FurryManiac 4 years ago

These make me sad...

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ISpiltLipstickInYourValentinoBag 4 years ago

I loved the old buildings! Idk why anyone would want to get rid of them but it would probably be because to make more stuff :(

0points

Leigh Hogan 4 years ago

Most of the time they are in disrepair to the point of dangerous.

2points

Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

I just quit looking. The new designs were just so unattractive, ugly and truthfully just plain disrespectful!

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Naomi Armitage 4 years ago

Unanimously, ALL the Thens are far superior to the Nows. So sad to lose all that historic beauty.

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Popcorn Colonel 4 years ago

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Petra Schaap 4 years ago

or maybe a bomb distroyed the building in the war...

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Octavia Hansen 4 years ago

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gaconlongvang2011 4 years ago

Octavia Hansen good

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Tabernus 4 years ago

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Kendra Miller 4 years ago

Thank you for clarifying that. Usually in architecture you can see bones and remnants left from the original, but many of these were clearly different.

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Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

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RaroaRaroa 4 years ago

Yes, someone doesn't know the meaning of 'renovation'. Most of these are replacements.

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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago

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Ivan Wahl 4 years ago

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Kel Gal 4 years ago

I imagine that so many of the before buildings were in such bad condition that it was less expensive and safer to tear them down.

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Jutta Plötz 10 months ago

Most of them were destroyed during the war

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Harley Hoglin 4 years ago

Every photo that shows a building destroyed in WW2 and what replaced it needs to be removed. Comparing what became a bombed out pile of rubble to a new building is bullshit.

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Ivan Wahl 4 years ago

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Jerry Juneau 3 years ago

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GDOY 4 years ago

Not really, I recognize a few from Montreal

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Russell Ellwardt 4 years ago

Many of these are not renovations but replacements. This "list" is no list. Totally useless.

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Paulina 4 years ago

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mph seti 4 years ago

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Petra Schaap 4 years ago

i kinda like Brutalism... its so ugly and weird that its fascinating... its a part of history now, but I dont understand they thought it was a good idea back then.

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Olivia Agave 4 years ago

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StardustRainO8 4 years ago

I don't know any historcial facts or storys behind these bulidings, but people shuld take a look back and appericate the buliding thats aleready there.

3points

CamlikesCookies 4 years ago

Reverse renovations of bad sims 4 builds.

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

2points

Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago

Sad. After look like The sims 4 buildings

1point

Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago

Need Memories and museum.

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Jungkook Hbdhgs 4 years ago (edited)

Sad. Before old building look beautiful and interesting. Lazy after new build. I hate new build like modern buildings. I like vintage and cozy old things.

1point

Shelp 4 years ago

There's a real discrepancy between what architects are taught to find ''beautiful'', and what the people actually like

1point

fainasKeturatis 4 years ago

"renovation" is not building from the foundation on the remains of last building but renewing or "making something look new again". Half of those are not "renovations".

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no_name 4 years ago

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mande.be 4 years ago

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lara 4 years ago

In Russia this type of architecture is called "Stalinist." The horrific monster buildings he had built in Moscow are called "The Seven Ugly Sisters".

1point

Petra Schaap 4 years ago

are they considered ugly? I love them! O_O

1point

person (i think) 4 years ago

Dumb list. Most of these are re-builds, not "renovations". Two totally different things.

1point

Tabitha L 4 years ago

A list like this is incomplete without NYC Penn Station before and after. Watch this and have your heart broken - https://youtu.be/_vby82-Z60s

1point

El muerto 4 years ago

many of these are down to destruction during war...but too many horrible examples of bad taste

1point

H Edwards 4 years ago

The Birmingham city centre one was done in the 1970s. From the 1950s to the 1980s there was a lot of this in the UK.

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