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From Bizarre To Embarrassing, Here’s 30 Pics Of Architectural And Interior Design Mistakes
There comes a point when a supposedly quirky architectural design becomes questionable. It’s usually when the chosen theme diminishes the structure’s functionality and purpose, like in the designs you’re about to see.
These photos are from the “That’s It, I’m Architecture Shaming” Facebook group. If the name isn’t a total giveaway, it calls attention to building and home designs that cause puzzlement.
Here, you’ll find images of staircases you wouldn’t dare step on, oddly placed toilets and urinals, and houses that look haphazardly built in The Sims.
More than 855,000 people keep the page alive, and we’ve picked those that stood out in the most baffling way. Hopefully, seeing these also gives you a good enough idea of what to avoid for your future designs.
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#1
Difficult To Align
Birma Gustafsson 1 year ago
Premade elements, some turned upside down! Someone forgot to mark which side was up!
Jerry Wyant 1 year ago
By someone who was using the spacebar to align the windows instead of setting and using tabs, LOL!!
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#2
Gotta Love An Add-On. Denver, Colorado
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Trying to be charitable, *possibly* they had a compelling need for more space, but couldn't come up with enough money to duplicate the original look of the house. Building is expensive, but doing the facade to match to original would have undoubtedly been much more expensive that what they settled for. Odds are, though, that they either had no sense of esthetic taste, wanted to make some apartments, or simply didn't care.
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago
That's a crying shame, especially as the rotunda was so daintily elegant.
tee-lena 1 year ago
Most places only want it to be safe. ugly,unless in an HOA,is allowed
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Lorene Webb 1 year ago
They really should have restored it back to original. They obvoiusly had the money to work with. Big mistake!
#3
Hug Me!
Floeckchen 1 year ago
That's cute. In Hamburg we have two towers that are dancing with each other
Experts have revealed a connection between architecture and people’s emotions. A BBC report mentioned recent findings by neuroscientist Colin Ellard about how we are most affected by building facades.
In the study, Ellard and the participants walked past a Whole Foods store in Lower Manhattan. According to wristband readings and surveys, the store’s smoked-glass frontage caused a drop in their arousal and mood states.
#4
Death Stairs
grotesqueer 1 year ago
The starts aren't even the biggest problem imo, but the fact that you have to walk on the kitchen counter. 🤮 From outside too with shoes on!
Verena 1 year ago
No problem. Place a glass divider from countertop to ceiling.
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Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Those steps need to be 3 feet wide, and have a railing on the non-wall side.
Dawn Davis 1 year ago
This is truly disturbing! What kind of sense does it make to have sliding doors in front of a sink, a stove, a countertop? And then add unsafe stairs to the mix?!
Lorene Webb 1 year ago
I'd say it's a work in progress, only maybe they just stopped before they got it finished. Looks kin of like a basement make-over that didn't get finished.
#5
Climb The Ladder To The Top Of The Kitchen Counter, Then Take The Steps To The Bedroom Loft. Never Mind That The Hand Rail Is Where Your Feet Are. It's Fine
(Tiny house Airbnb in Colorado, husband for scale.)
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Yes yes, typical of tiny house, we know. He's still standing on a food prep area in outside shoes - tiny house or not, you don't stand on a food prep area in outside shoes.
g90814 1 year ago
better to use the husband, than the husband's banana (for measuring, that is).
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago
Bad positioning of hand rails though. I hope the description was clear that you'd have to be pretty fit to use this house
#6
This Is The Front Of The House
Na Schi 1 year ago
Yep, and then running out of the fitting Lego windows and just use all of them you'll find in your box of bricks.
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The report mentioned the Seattle Central Library’s interior architecture, describing it as “one of the most notoriously disorienting buildings.” According to architect and Northumbria University professor Ruth Dalton, the building’s one-way escalators could be a problem. As she told BBC, we have specific expectations regarding navigation.
“There are very few situations in the real world where you can go from A to B via one route, and you’re forced to take a different route from B back to A,” she explained, noting that it can confuse people.
#7
Found A Hillbilly Barn Mansion On Zillow. The Crazy Fred Flinstone Esque Stairs Connecting The Kitchen To The Living Room Are What Noteworthy
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Oh this house is hideous. ANNNND. My hall bathroom was that horrible florescent yellow along with the countertop. When we moved in we painted it a very pale yellow and I was finally able to get rid of the yellow Formica and replace it with a solid surface countertop. When people don't believe me I open the broom closet and show them the scream and run color.
Eliyahu Rooff 1 year ago
There's no way those stairs would pass a building inspection. Not even close.
Catharina Geerts 1 month ago
You must have a good sense of equilibrity to walk those stairs. I wouldn't do it with my hands full
#8
Sure Hope That Door Is Locked
farbenzirkel 1 year ago
I hate it, going all the stairs up and ending at the entrance door again.
Load More Replies... Na Schi 1 year ago
Looks like the architect took inspiration from the Winchester Mystery House.
Cyndi Hafele 1 year ago
Naw. That one's cool. This is just a horrid mess.
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Catharina Geerts 1 month ago
And the stairs above the other door! They go nowhere, as far as I can see
#9
My Husband Found This On His Page
Jayjay 1 year ago
Definitely a split up in Amsterdam :). The "huisjesmelkers" (literally: housemilkers) who divide up a "grachtenpand" (old 4 to 5 story warehouses near canals) into apartments go to the most extreme ways of ripping the money of their renters.
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Tabitha 1 year ago
They couldn't have come straight down instead of curving those stairsteps, and created a landing there where people can turn to go down the rest of the stairs?
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Accident waiting to happen ... or has, so the last remaining owner is selling it ...
Architecture critics seem to be uneasy about current trends, but they’ve been vocal about them. Veteran critic Rowan Moore wrote an article for the Guardian expressing his displeasure with the Ilona House in London.
He had choice words, describing the pinkish, rounded building as “plasticky” while calling out its “quite expensive” concrete surface.
#10
These Are Urinals
Laugh or not 1 year ago
Cleaning the pistil of the white and orange flowers?
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
I hope there is something just as cute in the other loo. Not the middle one though, definitely
#11
Why?
ohjojo (you/your's) 1 year ago
These people have trouble folding their towels the same way twice. I know. I am these people.
rckblykitn 1 year ago
Any idea if there's a reason or explanation for why it's like that?
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#12
I Have No Words
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The water from the washing machine flushes the toilet. Poor execution bur A+ for saving water.
Frank 1 year ago
not at all: the intake is from the same pipe as the toilet, the outlet is on the left, to the T in the grey pipe.
Load More Replies... Libstak 1 year ago
It's all fun and games until you are on the loo and there is suddenly a loud crash.
tee-lena 1 year ago
If there is a way for me to get it to crash I'd find it.garanteed
Load More Replies... Kobe (she) 1 year ago
How do you get the laundry out of the machine, without it falling in the toilet ... and there is no lid to prevent laundry from falling into it ? I probably couldn't even reach it without standing on the toilet myself
S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
You had better be tall, how would you turn the k**b to the load selection?
Montanavanna 1 year ago
That looks like those smaller stackable units. We had one in our new place. If it is let's give them extra kudos because those things weigh a metric tonne!
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
What tha????? How is that thi even attracted to the wall? Don't even think about going anywhere near that toilet while the washer is running. Death wish...
Sand Ers 1 year ago
It’s standing on two pieces of angle iron sticking out of the wall. And that wall looks like concrete. Everything about this says “industrial location” to me. Different priorities than you’d use for residential.
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For Moore, it's all because of the "meanness and greed" of property developers who want the most floor area and pay the least. He bluntly stated that "ugly buildings have always been with us."
More says there is "no magic bullet" to fix the aesthetic situation. Still, he believes it would help if all professionals involved had one thing: "a stronger idea of what makes a building good."
#13
Just Add A Ladder And Don’t Move Too Much On That Chair
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Saw this somewhere else. Wife did this as a joke on her husband - it's his "man cave".
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
#Insane. Add a porch outside the front door instead - and you'd also get a little more space inside. Stuff like this is seen as a challenge by a large % of kids. I loved climbing anything back in the day, when I thought I was indestructible. I shudder when I recall some of it.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
Just add a strip of carpet on the wall and a cat tree above. Your cats will love it.
#14
Friends Who Wanted A Seperate Entrance?
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
Fire escape? With a drop down ladder hidden somewhere? (Looks like windows, not doors, after all)
Pam 1 year ago
It’s a fire no escape, you just run in a doom circle until you burn.
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jennifer_34 1 year ago
Bored Panda. Have you no spell check!? It's a headline. Who are you hiring to write these things???
#15
Whyyyyyyyy?
Display name here 1 year ago
These kinds of intersections look fine on a ceiling plan, but are nearly impossible to align irl. Best to avoid them altogether unless you are planning to make it a feature and then you need to plan for it very carefully.
We’d like to hear from you, too. Which of these structures were the most/least appealing? If you’re a professional, can you still make improvements on them? Comment below!
#16
Brutalist Architecture Should Come With A Free Power Washer
PFD 1 year ago
Looked it up. Aesthetically a case of one man's trash being another's treasure, but it was also built to be highly energy efficient. I rather like it especially when seen in its entirety though it looks distinctly odd in it's suburban setting among what looks like cod-historical buildings. https://www.oakpark.com/2021/11/24/oak-park-home-in-spotlight-on-new-wttw-show/
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Idk why, but the wreath on the door made me cackle like an idiot.
Amanda Greathouse 4 months ago
I think someone had an architectural obsession with Transformers. I was literally waiting for it to transform into a bot.
#17
In My Boyfriends New Rental Home
mooshoflove 1 year ago
Hyperventilating while ventilating... Must be the purpose! 😉
Load More Replies... Tabitha 1 year ago
They couldn't have just extended the cabinets out another foot, foot and a half, just to even it out?
Papa 1 year ago
That would have required re-doing the tile, and good luck getting it to match. I'd bet this is an old house or apartment that originally had a larger stove.
Load More Replies... YetAnotherSarah 1 year ago
I got concerns about the non-professional replacement of a gas stove
Charley128 1 year ago (edited)
I think I'd move the stove and hood to the left. Then put a narrow cart or table between the stove and counter.
#18
Because You Need A Safe Place To Stand To Request Things From Upstairs
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Seen this one before. That is totally a cat observatory. Be aware of toys landing on your head
#19
Please Give Me Ideas On How To Make His Space Feel Larger
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Imagine if you're a bit chubby (no good for me, I'd prob get a bit wedged, lol). Maybe it's the Slender Man's house?
Nea 1 year ago
I am pretty slender and I am sure I cant sit with my knees joined and make any use of this toilet!
Load More Replies... Floeckchen 1 year ago
Try to paint the walls in a darker tone with a light offset at the top and bottom...
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
I was always told mirror on the walls make rooms look bigger. Wait, no. (BTW, I HATE mirrored walls. They were done to DEATH back in the late seventies and on into the eighties and just look like c**p---plus they show dust and fingerprints way more than paint, so are yet ANOTHER thing that has to be cleaned regularly, and mirrors, as well as any glass-topped furniture---another fad I hate---are a B***H to keep clean.)
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Only solution is to take out the wall to the left and make an honest to God bathroom. This is ridiculous and I can guarantee the plumber that set that toilet was cussing the whole time.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
I could just imagine needing to take a liquid dump very quickly and seeing a door marked "bathroom" , thinking the end is in sight, opening the door and having my heart fall at the even farther i have to go.
#20
Saw This House Awhile Back. Thought It Was…. Intriguing
Manana Man 1 year ago
The answer to the question: how can I add a lot of roof to my house but almost no usable inside space?
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
If they put some of those thingies on the roof, they could use it as a climbing wall.
#21
Umm
Cyndi Hafele 1 year ago
A kitten found me and we hung out for a bit. I had a dog, so I wasn't gonna take her home. We said good bye and I went into the house and up the stairs to my apt. The next morning I was leaving for work. Somehow she'd gotten into the house and was right outside my door in a space JUST LIKE THIS. Lol. I named her Millie.
Load More Replies... Display name here 1 year ago
I would guess this is another example of dividing up large, old houses into apartments.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
*grabs the banana and dashes under the sofa for breakfast*
Load More Replies... YetAnotherSarah 1 year ago
Easier to put the new wall a little further away than to remove the bannister. Floorboards/trim boards combo screams "I learned how to build a wall, not care for old architecture".
Amanda Greathouse 4 months ago
I'm confused as to why she didn't just hold her hand there for size comparison?
#22
You Can Only Open This Drawer All The Way If You Open The Oven Door First. In My Own House
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
The range was sticks out because it was likely designed for a built in style range that is more or less flush with the end of the counter. Those are a bit more shallow. That would have worked fine really.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
We have that situation too, with the house we're in now. The original stove that fit was replaced with a bigger one, a couple years before we moved in, that juts out and blocks a drawer and part of a cabinet below it. But the damned stove is working perfectly right now, refuses to finally break down, so we just can't justify replacing it yet. Not to mention a good stove can get pricey, and we just started our own business last year (doing really well, but we're still being very conservative about spending). But let me tell you, the day that we do, I will be taking PRECISE depth measurements and insisting on getting a stove that is flush with the counters so I can finally have that extra drawer and cabinet space!
Load More Replies... grotesqueer 1 year ago (edited)
Was the stove replaced at some point? I feel like there might have been a smaller one originally, considering that this one is noticeably deeper than the counter.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Most likely. I experienced this problem once. It was silly but I became accustomed to it.
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chrnh@metrocast.net 1 year ago
Cut off the end of the drawer nearest the stove. Attach cut off piece to the "wall where the drawer retreats to. The drawer front will be shorter but the piece on the "will" will make it look ok. Problem solved.
#23
"This Has To Be A Joke Post. Unless They're After Some Inheritance"
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
It is steep, but it looks sturdy. Think about it as a ladder with wide steps.
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
tey should not see it as a staircase, but as a very comfortable ladder. and go up and down in front of the steps.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Good Lord and I thought my basement and loft steps were bad. Somebody definitely doesn't know what they are doing and NOT to code. You wouldn't be able to sell until they were built to code here in the US.
Jen Exer 1 year ago
Rather, it was designed to be installed rotated counter-clockwise by 90 degrees.
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Stygtand 1 year ago
This is a very common basement staircase. Its steep because their is not room for a fullsize staircase. Tje alternative is a ladder.
Historyherstory (old guy) 1 year ago
Yet there is plenty of riser which could have been cut to afford proper and uniform tread size. No excuse in this instance.
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#24
Towering Over The Back Bay Of Boston
mooshoflove 1 year ago
Hurts my brain because I think I kind of like it 😵💫
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George Costanza 1 year ago
It's not in the Back Bay. It's in Fenway/Kenmore. It's part of the Boston University campus.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Ty, I commute to school in the Longwood Medical Area and have driven by here, during my travels and it really doesn't belong in that area, imo.
Load More Replies... Connie Hirsch 1 year ago
I pass by this fairly often (it's on two major highways) and its ugliness/awkwardness never fails.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I commute to school in the Longwood Medical Area and have driven by. It really doesn't belong in that area.
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#25
Nuff’ Said. As Seen In La
#26
Hey Bubba, Bring Me Dem Blueprints And Anuther Beer (Belch!) I Needa See Something
G A 1 year ago
Whatever way these were built, they were far too close. Pointless balcony when it gets no sun.
Tabitha 1 year ago
And it's way too easy for your opposite neighbor to not only see into your place, but also to hop across that short distance between your two balconies, and actually get into your place.
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Cora C 1 year ago
I used to live in the city centre, and all balconies were this close. I witnessed my neighbours getting married, pregnant, then gave birth without ever talking to them. Also she had issues with her staff (she owned a restaurant). Her husband gave up smoking at a certain time point, I knew because I could no longer smell the smoke. I am sure they know a lot about me too.
Marie Buschheuer 1 year ago
This is in Cologne, Germany. I know this building. These are not Balconys, they are Pathways to the Entrances.
Karina 1 year ago
The balconies are at the front, the one on the side are sidewalks to individual doors. Im not saying it is good, but its not as bad as it looks.
#27
Salford, United Kingdom
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
I used to live by here. Salford Shopping Centre was a dangerous place to go, at one time. The whole place is an eyesore and needs demolishing and starting again. Where I used to live was three tower blocks all near each other. Because so many gay men lived there, it was known as ‘Fairy Towers’. And The Gays™️ who came up with the name.
Na Schi 1 year ago (edited)
Does the building tilts to the right? Or is this an illusion? And if not, is the tilt wanted or do we have to fear about the buildings integrity 🤔. Anyway, it's ugly as hell.
KC 1 year ago
No I don’t think the building tilts. I lived near there about 15 years ago. It was just as ugly then.
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
Like the block I was in for 8 months in the 90s (sans shopping Centre). There was so much crime inside that building, & my flat was burgled once, when I was at work. Noped it out of there. So glad I haven't lived in a City for decades.
Everest wolf 1 year ago
If you guys think this is ugly you probably haven’t seen the cities in the usa 💀
#28
Hostile Gay Architecture Shaming
Laserleader 1 year ago
For those who haven't realized, the colors have been added. It's actually just gray.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
That’s terrible, it’s spreading misinformation >:(
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
The Govt should spend the money they use for this barbaric endeavour, towards helping homeless peeps off the streets, instead of punishing/attacking them. #BeLikeFinland, world!
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Those spikes are just the cruelty of entitled people showing through, and painting the pride colors is their hypocrisy joining the cruelty. If they were genuinely concerned about the homeless problem, they'd be trying to find ways to solve it at its CORE, get people permanently off the streets, and prevent anyone from ever becoming homeless in the first goddamned place. But no, they'd rather just shoo the homeless people on to another neighborhood and another and another until they find one that's not full of cruel entitled hypocrites (which is a unicorn, btw). Before you say why don't I have the live in my neighborhood, I live in the country. If there are homeless people living in the woods that's several acres behind my house, which is county land btw, then I have never seen them or heard them or noticed any evidence of them. So if they're not bothering me, why should I bother them? I have no reason to go into those woods, and they have no reason to come onto my property.As long as it stays like that, I can peacefully coexist.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Very few people can live in the woods without being destructive. They have no resources and no way to get rid of waste.
Load More Replies... Amanda Greathouse 4 months ago
For as much money as this cost to make "anti-homeless", they probably could have housed all of the homeless people that slept on it.
Jack McHue 1 year ago
Amazing how the colors are perfectly lined up and cross impossibly over the pyramids.
#29
Just Got To Oporto, Portugal A Few Weeks Back! Thought I'd Share This Weird Air Conditioner Looking Building That Looks Like Something A Kid Would Make On Roblox
Bem-venido a 'Casa Da Musica'
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
People really don't appreciate Brutalist architecture. Wish there was more public education about the history of of things like this.
Cyndi Hafele 1 year ago
Maybe people don't appreciate Brutalist architecture because it's ugly.
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#30
Secretariat Of Security Of The State Of Queretaro In Mexico
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Maybe he'll buy cookies from three cute little girls.
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#31
For What?
Morgan Christie 1 year ago
Displaying creepy ceramic dolls and snow globes and fake plants and weird grandma sh*t
Floeckchen 1 year ago
Otherwise the stairs would be completely exposed. It would be better without the small wall on top of the podium
grotesqueer 1 year ago
It would be better if it was exposed. Just add a railing like on the other side
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
I found a higher resolution copy. The carpet on that tread loose and slid forward. There’s also still masking paper on the riser below it, so I’m going to rate this “work in progress, 97% complete”.
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#32
Does This Count? Or Is This More Interior Shaming LOL
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
very common in old medieval towns in France, the old houses are actually very small "cubes" placed one on top of each other with a staircase on the side to access them. So the only place to add modern comfort is the stairway. we get used to it :D
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
HolyMoly! Cheap a**e Landlord house-sharing property? Wouldn't surprise me, tbh.
#33
Stole From Another Group But This Is Definitely Awesome Brick Work
#34
What In The Load Bearing Wall?! Seriously Why Not Center It Make It Straight And Call It A Day. On The Bright Side My Friends Cats Love The Cubby They Believe Was Made Just For Them
Robert T 1 year ago
Not a load bearing wall in the traditional sense of holding the building up, but does need to be fairly solid as it has kitchen cabinets hanging from it. I'd have put locker cupboards on the top in the kitchen side myself, but it adss some storage space that would otherwise be wasted.
Chris Landrum 1 year ago
it is not load bearing, notice the sloped ceiling so you wouldn't have a load bearing wall go through it
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Is this a mobile home? Those don't seem to need much in the way of load bearing walls.
#35
Why?
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
The owners must have an amazing (& insanely expensive) house/accident Insurance cover.
#36
What? A Half House
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
We have one in Edmonton, the mirror house burnt, it is now a half duplex without the other half.
#37
New Build In My Neighborhood (Mostly Early 90s Era Homes). Their Privacy Fence Around Their Deck Goes Right Through The Middle Of The Window
#38
Idk Maybe It's Just Me But The Wooden Part Of The Exterior Of The House Is Just... Not It
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Good use of shade creation to make the house less susceptible to heat and seems to about double the usable floor space downstairs in reasonable weather.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Yup. This massive overhang design is useful in the tropics. In the tropics, at 4- 5 pm, the sun is already pretty low in the sky, but the heat is still unbearable. Having massive overhang acting as a shade is a smart design.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 1 year ago
Maybe it's in Texas or some godawful hot place like that where they wanted permanent shade over many of the windows and exterior patios. But yes, looks ridiculous.
Morgan Christie 1 year ago
Honestly looks like they're halfway through a renovation and trying to make it look as nice as possible in the meantime. I'm constantly in that process bc it's not easy to afford all at once w a fixer upper!!
#39
A Hotel In NYC A Friend Is Staying At
#40
Here's One For 1/4 Million In Gold Country, Ca That Features......"A Unique And Thoughtful Layout" ?!
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Looks like an old barn building, or mechanic's shop with a small room above it, that wasn't well taken care of. I'd say the half a million bucks is more for the land, and that a buyer will demolish this fugly POS and hopefully put up something that's actually nice.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
It's priced at $250,000, not a half a million.
Load More Replies... René Sauer 1 year ago
Well, we don´t know what it looks like inside. Could actually be pretty nice. just slap some paint on it and presto.
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
Actually, $250K is incredibly cheap and who knows that it looks like inside?
Saint_Zipcodus 1 year ago
Well, the exterior implies something to do with furniture made from human body parts...
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Have These Buildings In Rotterdam Been Posted Yet? I Thought They Were Particularly Unattractive
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
These types (Council Properties mostly) were common back in the day, esp UK. A lot of cities here have knocked down masses of them and replaced them with tiny houses with shared playgrounds/greens.
#42
Never Seen A House With Such A Big A** Forehead
#43
Fayetteville NY - Not Sure What To Say ?
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Is it just me, or does it look like the cream house thinks that the other house smells and is trying to get away from it?
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I thought they were going to catch a train and the other house was still putting it's coat on
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Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Someone who likes MCM atomic style did an upgrade on the house they already owned.
#44
Random Creekside Cabin In Industrial Part Of Anchorage, Alaska
Phillip Moderow 1 year ago
And you get in how ? Actually, I'd be more concerned about getting out ...
Display name here 1 year ago
I think the base is just mirrored. The door is behind that white screen. The real question is why would you design some kind of optical illusion art piece and then tack on a set of standard deck stairs for the main entrance?
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Because of polar bears, maybe? Looks pretty fragile, balance-wise. Imagine if a party of peeps inside, sat on one side of the building?
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Pretty sure, they have mirrors all around the lower part/base of the house. I think it's actually flat on the ground and shouldn't have balance issues.
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Reddus Heddus 1 year ago
Whimsical, I like it and the shape probably helps snow slide off. I also like the mirrored front that gives an optical illusion.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
That building looks like it takes you to another dimension or 3k feet below to a secret bunker, or both.
#45
Spotted This Curiosity In Northeast Indiana... A Castle Facade On An Otherwise Normal House?
George Costanza 1 year ago
Nothing in Indiana would ever make sense to look like a castle. Just don't do it. Rule of thumb - your house isn't in Europe somewhere? Then it shouldn't look like a castle. Easy.
#46
Need Ideas, What Would You Put In This Square?
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
Linen. A study. A guest you want to encourage to only spend two nights.
Diolla 1 year ago
Is that a square? But anyway, perfect place for a phone/ reading corner, or concentration desk.
Kim Shannon 1 year ago
A time machine, so you could go back in time and rethink the entire layout
#47
Um
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
You can get those narrow pull-out shelving racks, which would look good.
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jmmorris10 1 year ago
How would you install shelves? Maybe something on wheels you could roll out.
Cathleen Cummings 1 year ago
What a stupid waste of space! Either enlarge the closet or enlarge the shower
#48
There's A Part Of Me That's Kinda Impressed. I Mean, It's A Bit Of A Squeeze To Get Into The Bathroom
Flip side of that, hanging the toliet paper roller on the back of a door is a pretty good use of space
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I think the photo might have been taken from the shower, and the basin could be behind the shower wall, left side of the pic. 🤔
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Like To Meet The Inspector That Passed This
Display name here 1 year ago
It's a big time fire hazard. The chimney has to extend beyond the top of the highest peak of the roof.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Not a gate. Short fence blocking an easy to overlook single step.
Load More Replies... FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
A home inspection. The chimney is way too short and not up to building code, so they would not pass a home inspection. Hope this helped. 🙂
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#50
Nice Eyebrows
TribbleThinking 1 year ago
The apex above it needs to be embellished with a hat for each of the holidays 🙂
Catherine North 1 year ago
Honestly, if I drove past that it would probably make me smile. It's not pretty but it's got character.
#51
Ukrainian Village, Chicago - In An Otherwise Charming Neighborhbod, This Building Looks Like A Massive Crematorium
Na Schi 1 year ago
What's with those big shutes (or however they are called) - gives the whole building indeed some creepy factory vibes.
Verena 1 year ago
Easy to look up, it is a hospital. Hospitals have special requirements for ventilation, these are the exhaust chutes. Could do better, though
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
It's very much easier on the eye than the tower block at Gloucester Royal Hospital that's for sure
Load More Replies... Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
I don’t know why but it makes me think of a gigantic grinder and the mash would come out through the huge nozzles that are downstairs...
#52
I Have No Words
Ms. Mack 1 year ago
owner to architect: "Angels! I clearly wrote Angels!"
Load More Replies... TribbleThinking 1 year ago
They haven't really understood the New England "add a new module yearly" and its resultant architectural and roof style. 😄
#53
This One In Benidorm, Looking Like A Half-Finished Game Of Jenga, Although It Has Nothing On The Sheer Scale Of Vulgarity Of The Intempo Building
#54
The New Eyesore On I-4
Display name here 1 year ago
This building would be fine if there was the urban fabric around it to support it. The problem here is more that it doesn't suit its surroundings. Possibly they are planning on future development to fill in around it?
#55
I’ll Have A Balcony With A Side Of House, Please
#56
One River North, Denver, Colorado
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
I think this is kind of cool, actually. Looks like there's open air green space woven into the design on numerous floors.
Na Schi 1 year ago
Agree, if they now would actually add some green it would be really cool.
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Ellinor 1 year ago (edited)
I love this ! It's like bones under the skin (in a non-creepy way)
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Yes, it reminds me of those tattoos that look like exposed skeleton
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Bored in Colorado 1 year ago
This is such a dumb design for a city where it snows. I can't believe they actually built this.
#57
Oh No
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
That square with 'lip' especially. I can imagine tripping up that every time I used the stairsx2
#58
Jersey Barriers On Windows?
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Also known as concrete barriers. The angled lower bit redirects tires, invented in California, which has huge curbs. The whole thing was invented in New Jersey in 1950s, after many deaths due to steel barriers, redirects tires and has a crash barrier. Now found worldwide.
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As A Classic Example Of Brutalist Architecture, I’m Surprised This Iconic Building Was Commissioned By A Church
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Where is this one? Uk churches be like: cathedral-...ba8fb7.jpg 
George Costanza 1 year ago
Yep, that's part of the Christian Science Plaza in Boston. Designed by I. M. Pei. A complete mishmash of styles on that plaza, several are terribly brutalist and ugly.
howdylee 1 year ago
But the Mother Church building is beautiful! The pipe organ is fantastic! https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/the-pipe-organ-in-the-mother-church-extension/
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Baltimore
Tabitha 1 year ago
Same here. Not symmetric the way I would prefer, but not too bad.
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George Costanza 1 year ago
Doesn't seem that weird. Likely gives lots of units small outdoor patios.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
And excellent views of what they're doing from the units above.
Load More Replies... Phillip Moderow 1 year ago
It looks like the insane asylum featured in Silence of the Lambs. The architect belongs there.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
The lower levels have a lot of space without natural light I am guessing this is a hotel, with conference rooms in the windowless space
#61
1280 Scooter St, Henderson, Nv 89002
Elle Roque 1 year ago
For sale: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1280-Scooter-St_Henderson_NV_89002_M22654-52700
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
any kids living in that house probably have an absolute blast playing "war."
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
I agree on the missing greenery and the kitschy horses.
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The Back… Welcome To The Bad Things Happen Here Motel
#63
University Towers In Ann Arbor, Mi
Verena 1 year ago
Ugly as hell, but if managed properly, offers neat cheap living space for lots of people. It is simply not possible to have a single home with yard for everybody. Not only because of the costs, but the pressure on nature, too. Concreted over suburbs with concreted, easy yards are a danger
#64
Too-Narrow Shutters? Useless Decorative “Porch”? Totally Asymmetrical Front Door? There Is No Lesser Of Any Evil Here, It’s All Pretty Sinister
Vincent Bevort 1 year ago
Too narrow fake shutters is a thing in the USA. Getting standard nowadays to have them useless ones. Otherwise, nothing wrong with this house!
#65
This House Has Driveway Stairs. I Repeat, Driveway Stairs
Faith Crofton 1 year ago
Yes, but they also have picket fencing attached to various parts of their home. So...I'm going to say at least a bit daft lol
Load More Replies... LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Common here in the PNW. Very rainy for a big chunk of the year and it's safer than navigating a steep, slippery slope.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
I lived in a house near the top of a hill with the same incline. When we had snow/ice it tried to murder the residents, so yeah, I kinda like the inbuilt stairs, lol.
René Sauer 1 year ago
Overall not a weird thing, see that a lot here in Germany, too. But the question I wonder is: If Stairs, why there? Why a couple feet to the right, so they run up to the door directly?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
They didn't want to mess up their yard 🙂
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This One Was The Home Of Someone Quite Internationally Famous. I Won’t Say Who, But I Will Say, As An Architect - He Makes An Excellent Tennis Player
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Looks a bit off-centered, but not the worst I've seen.
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
I've never liked so much glass on a house. Privacy issues for a start - unless you go for the window glass places like Macdonald's use (in the UK, at least), but makes for a dull, depressing view. Or sheer curtains for daytime and thick ones for nighttime (a LOT of fabric, lol).
PFD 1 year ago
I knew someone who built a house with a glass wall a bit like this. It was amazing at first but but the flaws soon showed themselves, especially appalling heat in summer and insane window-cleaning fees (dust, bird s**t.... it turns out that the more glass there is, the more obvious the dirt becomes). Then a new build went up nearby, the beautiful views suddenly included the new neighbours and yeah, privacy became an issue.
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This House Is Near My Home And I Have Never Gotten That Weird Extension … Like Why? It Just Doesn’t Fit. It’s Not An Elevator! I Repeat; It’s Not An Elevator!
#68
Saw This On A Church In Maine!
Vermonta 1 year ago
The bottom stairs missing on the fire escape is becoming a more common sight. It keeps strangers with bad intentions from climbing into your house.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago (edited)
Need those boxes with rope ladders in them at the bottom
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rckblykitn 1 year ago
I mean...I live on the third floor and the fire escape only takes me to the roof over the 2nd floor's bay window. I'd have to jump to street level from there!
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Well, escaping a fire with just a couple of broken ankles sounds fine to them.
#69
The Guest Bathroom In My Townhouse. The Window Placement Looks Ok From Outside, But Is A Big Failure For Guys Who Need To Use The Toilet
Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
and the curtains are not only there for the decoration
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
(Heavily) frosted glass, if it's only the toilet & you're mostly below the window, or if a bathroom, get a (wipeable) blind? Curtains in a room with a loo aren't the best idea, imo.
#70
Not A Fan...it's For Sale If You Have A Cool $2.5m And Pretty Inside, But The Outside Not So Much
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
If the horizontal windows were bigger (and the building white), I'd go for it.
Tabitha 1 year ago
All that concrete replacing he trees and grasses that used to be there. Granted, the previous house wasn't much to look at, but at least the woods around it was pretty much intact.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
That’s not concrete, it’s gravel. There’s still plenty of trees on the lot. IMG_1941-6...c-jpeg.jpg 
#71
Umm
Sand Ers 1 year ago
How does that not look like poor quality broken concrete?
Load More Replies... Catharina Geerts 1 month ago
If that's AI, I get it. If not, Why??? Ugly, and if you can step on that balcony, potentially dangerous
#72
This Building Is Part Of The University In My Hometown, Aachen/Germany
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
The thought of walking under that gives me anxiety. Hopefully, they don't suffer from earthquakes (we've only had the odd small EQ's in the UK, and mostly suffered falling chimneys).
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
I remember the earthquake in Kent. Someone’s wheelie bin fell down. We couldn’t cope!
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Calling Out This Monstrosity In Brisbane (Aust) On Behalf Of All Trypophobes. I Couldn't Physically Look At It For The First 5 Years I Lived Here
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
I love it, reminds me of corals and it looks friendly
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#74
From A For Sale Listing. The Windows Are Too Small (Imo) And Having No Windows On The Other Side Makes It Feel Unbalanced
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
I would imagine that there is a lot of glass on the backside of the house. Not uncommon and this looks pretty appealing IMHO.
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