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#2

Ugly Houses

Final score:

191points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Why would you live in a sphincter house?

117points

#3

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

163points

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Fraxinus excelsior 2 years ago

Someone's extension went a bit awry

79points

For your entertainment, the Twitter account in question has been documenting terrible building examples ever since it was created in 2020. As the creator writes in the description, this social media account is a virtual gallery of some of the ugliest buildings found across the world, from China to Belgium to the United States. And they certainly deliver.

The page currently has over 3k followers, but its Latin American version has gained a strong foothold on the platform by amassing over 31k devoted fans eagerly waiting for a new ugly creation to grace their feeds. They are both well-known for shaming buildings or public spaces that were designed without a dash of love or talent, and a brief scroll through their accounts shows a variety of wacky designs and spaces that are just begging to be poked fun at.

Moreover, each photo has a caption with the location of the building, and some offer more information like its name, construction date, and architect. So if some of these pictures left you scratching your head and wondering "What on earth were these people thinking!", this makes it much easier for you to look them up.

#4

Ugly Houses

Final score:

162points

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Minath 2 years ago

It's a cross between, periscopes and car exhausts.

101points

#5

Ugly Houses

Final score:

156points

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Bethan Coleman 2 years ago

Pick a style and stick to it.

121points

#6

Ugly Houses

Final score:

154points

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Saint Thomas 2 years ago

It's not in Belgium, but in Bulgaria : https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/snail-house-sofia

104points

Speaking of architectural novelties, some ideas may (or may not) have once looked good on paper, but they probably should have just stayed on paper. Especially when architects have so many different ones, but they end up choosing them all at once. Of course, like any other art form, architecture is subjective, but this list offers proof that some buildings truly deserve all the strong opinions, criticism, and mockery they receive.

After all, when it comes to designing things for city living, you expect they are made with people in mind. Unfortunately, many creators wish to leave a mark and design buildings so unique that they will be remembered for years. Well, it's crystal clear that even with the best intentions, this desire for individuality does not always bring wanted results.

#7

Ugly Houses

Final score:

150points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

I am hearing Also Sprach Zarathrusta. 2001 A Space Odyssey, sponsored by AT&T.

75points

#8

Ugly Houses

Final score:

140points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Would ewe live there?

113points

#9

Ugly Houses

Final score:

138points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Looks like a PC fan.

235points

Very bored 2 years ago

I was thinking food processor

20points

Alicia Andrews 2 years ago

My guess is the interior things are sunshades

5points

MrsWelton 2 years ago

Or a food dehydrator.

3points

Aélia Potter 2 years ago

Logically it should have been looking like a Justin Bieber fan though

2points

Robert T 2 years ago

Looks like the cutaway washing machine they show on telly to demonstrate limescale. I wonder what happens when you put it on spin cycle?

23points

Martine 2 years ago

That's how he gets his hairdo

17points

Calista Blaylock 2 years ago

His house is his biggest fan

22points

Tsunami_The_Seawing 2 years ago

Great pun

2points

Emiloy 2 years ago (edited)

Such an unusual design that I wanted to see more. Here’s some info and photos of the “salad spinner” house for anyone else who’s interested: https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/justin-bieber-house-twitter-2911257/

15points

Miriam L 2 years ago

Thank you

6points

SCP 4666 2 years ago

Looks like Tony Starks mansion to me

12points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago

I think Tony Stark would have a lot more class than Justin Bieber

21points

Junior Farrell 2 years ago

Pretty cool tbh.

10points

Roman Hans 2 years ago

I hope it's got an air conditioner.

8points

Wingo Lamo 1 year ago

LOL.

0points

Will Cable 2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if the bathroom floor is mirrored.

5points

Amanda Rose 2 years ago

Looks kind of like a record player to me.

5points

Anna Johnston 2 years ago

Looks like a car dealership

4points

Persephone 2 years ago

It's ugly as heck, but the retractable roof is kinda neat... I'd rather have plants instead of fake turf tho under it.

4points

Jake B 2 years ago

Yeah but not in Cali- surprised there is water in the pool.

0points

ElenaK 2 years ago

So much space and they have such a small ugly pool.

2points

DramaNerd 2 years ago

Avengers compound is that you?

1point

Paw Amador 2 years ago

Not really his, he only rented it for two months. He was a very short term tenant. Not his choice and actually hated it due to all the glass giving paparazi full view inside.

1point

Mimi777 2 years ago

Why does it look like two different community college/tech schools I’ve seen.

1point

BrightHeartTheWarriorCat‍⬛ 2 years ago

the heck-

1point

Patti Wagner 2 years ago

Why?

1point

dancebe4thestorm 2 years ago

I'll bet it looks better on the inside

1point

MG Lorange 2 years ago

Well no accounting for taste.

1point

Oreo Tookie 2 years ago

At first I thought you meant "a fan of PCs". Then I realized.. LITERAL PC fan!

1point

mexiricanvegan 2 years ago

Looks like a car dealership in some lame suburb.

1point

Piet Zwanenburg 2 years ago

Cool, i like the modern style.

1point

third molar 2 years ago

Looks like a sewage treatment plant

1point

Sanne H. 2 years ago

It’s not so bad, compared to the previous ones.

1point

Vera Rios 2 years ago

It does look like a fan. An ac fan.

1point

Vera Rios 2 years ago

Looks cool

1point

Dre Mosley 2 years ago

Looks like experiments are conducted there.

1point

Diandra “Mss Didi” Blackthorn 2 years ago (edited)

You'd like it if you saw it from the inside -- which is where it's meant to be appreciated!

1point

Elisha 2 years ago

How does he afford this

1point

NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago

Because he has a net worth of about $300 million.

0points

Veronica Cross 1 year ago

EEEWEEEEWWWEEEWWEEEWWW JUSTIN BEIBER IDC WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BUT WHEREVER HE IS I HATE EWWWWEE

0points

Carl Laramore 1 year ago

Different but not ugly..

0points

Sir Panda 1 year ago

He imagines himself to be Tony Stark

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago

The school I went to looked a bit like this.

0points

Joyce Dalton 1 year ago

Talk about cold and sterile looking

0points

Mrs. Sherri C (Sherbear) 1 year ago

Interesting

0points

K Carbello 2 years ago

Do you think it ever gets mistaken for a rest stop?

0points

Salty_Sasquatch 2 years ago

Why would anyone want to live in a hotel-size home? You'd need so many people for maintenance!

0points

Bonny Saxon 2 years ago (edited)

When you have more money than taste.

0points

David Ingle 2 years ago

A poor man's Tracy Island. No rockets.

0points

Elizabeth Butler 2 years ago

Living inside an AC fan unit housing

0points

Merbear 2 years ago

I kinda like it

0points

Rich Black 2 years ago

Check out the cliffside 6 foot wide pool.

0points

Jonathan Wright 2 years ago

“Twat towers” !

0points

Mjolnir Stormbreaker 2 years ago

If I had a house that big, but have that little bs size swimming pool, I would expect my friends and family to smack sense into me.

0points

Isabela Cincu 2 years ago

Well. It s JB

0points

Lathrop L. d S T 2 years ago

He loves his fans.

0points

Beverly Schmidt 2 years ago

perfect for a messed up horrormovie...

0points

Gladys Hayes Southerland 2 years ago

A factory or factory part but never a house

0points

Nicole hought 2 years ago

Likes like a centrifuge

0points

Melissa Sanchez 2 years ago

Looks like a compound from the MCU

0points

Elijah Herrington 2 years ago

Looks like one of Tony Stark's houses

0points

FlyingGhee74 2 years ago

I think it's neat

0points

Amber Belcher 2 years ago

No no no no no no no no no no no. just no.

0points

Candi Cabral 2 years ago

It reminds me of Microsoft for some reason.

0points

Damian Zanone 2 years ago

Reminds me of the technology building on a college campus

0points

Kandrea's World 2 years ago

I only see room for about 4 or 5 rooms. It's all walkways. What kind of mansion doesn't have rooms?

0points

Begone Fool 2 years ago

Honestly, though, with this planet crumbling, burning, flooding, sweltering, and Beverly Hills being located where it is, such monstrosities, built for a couple of overpaid humans to "live in", are an utter abomination and a monument to the greed and self centeredness of human beings.

0points

Begone Fool 2 years ago

Hideous. Appropriate.

0points

DP 2 years ago

Reminds me of a giant fidget spinner...

0points

Sherri Stokes 2 years ago

I actually like this one.

0points

Amber Bedard 2 years ago (edited)

Hell no. Looks like an airport or hospital or some weird a*s scientology building.

0points

Channo Sagara 2 years ago

I'd actually live there.

0points

ChrissySue 2 years ago

Why does he live in an evil villains lair?

0points

Pjerrot 2 years ago

Looks a bit like a public building👍

0points

Impetus 2 years ago

Kinda ugly, but with all those windows the inside is probably open and beautiful

0points

Katherine Heasley 2 years ago

Yeah, I want to live in a soulless corporate campus, too.

0points

Imjust jim 2 years ago

Looks like a parking gargage

0points

Marieta Wessels 2 years ago

Sorry spindryer!

0points

Marieta Wessels 2 years ago

Spon dryer!

0points

Kimberly Alison 2 years ago

Gross.

0points

Paul Greer 2 years ago

It’s not really a fail inside function is probably very good

0points

Shayne Randlett 2 years ago

Good luck hanging a picture on the wall

0points

TheDivineMsM 2 years ago

Sp incredibly ugly

0points

NY Redneck 2 years ago

When comic book fans make it big and realize their dream of living in an Avengers HQ.

0points

Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago

Looks like the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels

0points

Invisible Potato 2 years ago

looks like from comand and conquer

0points

Sammie 19 2 years ago

Part of a vacuum cleaner?

0points

crazy_stupid 2 years ago

Guess that building front left is his Bluetooth speaker?

0points

Jill Hojnacki 2 years ago

Looks like something they’d build for the Olympic Games. A velodrome, maybe?

0points

Megan O'Neill 2 years ago

The landscaping is worse than the house. I mean it's a weird building for a house, but not terrible architecture. It's a poor choice for that lot.

0points

Cuppa tea? 2 years ago

Place will house at least 5 normal families.

0points

Pam Akers 2 years ago

People please.

0points

Lisa H 2 years ago

That looks like it's going to melt this week.

0points

According to Associate professor Melonie Bayl-Smith from UNSW Built Environment, architecture today suffers from an originality syndrome. "When architects try to do something completely original, they don’t necessarily produce a better building," she said, adding that originality shouldn’t necessarily be the highest value of an architect.

"I see that architecture today, in some cases, has become a very form-based exercise, often at the expense of the quality of space or other crucial aspects of architecture. It doesn’t matter anymore whether it responds to anything to do with site or place or people — apparently we just want it to look different," Bayl-Smith added.

#10

Ugly Houses

Final score:

136points

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Marika 2 years ago

I get dizzy looking at these windows!

63points

#11

Ugly Houses

Final score:

132points

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Ronda News Channel 2 years ago

Is it a train?

62points

#12

Ugly Houses

Final score:

131points

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liam newton-harding 2 years ago

Tubby Custard!

63points

As the associate professor argued, creating a well-thought-out product is more important than doing something for the sake of its novelty. "I think we as a profession need to do a better job of recognizing what does work well, and developing and enriching those approaches, whether it’s spatial design, material design, the processes of building assembly, sustainable practices — all the different things that contribute to making a great, long-lasting building," she said. "There are enough poor buildings out there; we don’t need to keep 'inventing' more of them just to try and be 'original'."

#13

Ugly Houses

Final score:

119points

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N H 2 years ago

This bothers me on so many levels.

4points

#14

Ugly Houses

Final score:

116points

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Raven Sheridan 2 years ago

Nobody should have this much money, while hundreds of millions live in abject poverty.

176points

#15

Ugly Houses

Final score:

106points

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Rebecca O’Donnell Premium 2 years ago

Legos!

121points

Architects have the power to make our lives much easier, they have the ability to create a sense of calmness and safety. New buildings and public spaces need to accommodate and protect society, not make us feel uneasy and confused. After all, a report by the United Nations (U.N.) stated that 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today. A number which is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Our environments are changing at an incredible rate, so designers, urban planners, and architects have to face challenges to ensure they serve the people who live there.

#16

Ugly Houses

Final score:

105points

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Danyelka 2 years ago

Guilty pleasure: I like it.

90points

#17

Ugly Houses

Final score:

102points

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Stephen OHara 2 years ago

For that “support column” look

52points

#18

Ugly Houses

Final score:

102points

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Great Pyrenees 2 years ago

The middle east has such beautiful castle designs. Modern office building is not one of them

52points

More often than not, however, they choose to make the modern world extremely ugly. In the last few centuries, humanity has made huge strides in technology, medical advances, and overall quality of life, but contemporary architecture still somehow manages to give us the jitters. As it’s explained in an article on Current Affairs, most architects will defend themselves by saying you simply don’t understand architectural principles.

#19

Ugly Houses

Final score:

101points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

I find this structure napaling

73points

#20

Ugly Houses

Final score:

92points

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Diandra “Mss Didi” Blackthorn 2 years ago

Monsters, Inc. character inspired

94points

#21

Ugly Houses

Final score:

92points

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Shannon Leta 2 years ago

It was in Hialeah, FL (surrounding city to Miami) and was painted white, sold to produce company & then demolished in 2017

46points

One typical excuse they use is that the buildings that look like atrocities to the public eyes are actually incredible feats of engineering. Take 'blobitecture', for example, a real school of contemporary architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. Usually, architects justify these examples because they were created using complicated computer-driven algorithms.

Another thing you’ll often hear is that contemporary architecture is honest. This means that it doesn’t rely on the forms and usages of the past, and it’s definitely not interested in "coddling you and your dumb feelings".

#22

Ugly Houses

Final score:

90points

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Skara Brae 2 years ago

I see ranks of Scottie dogs.

51points

#23

Ugly Houses

Final score:

89points

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Honza Palička 2 years ago

The Commercial Center Cita has even more stuff on it! Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate, Tower Bridge, Little Mermaid and even a set of the Avengers :D

42points

#24

Ugly Houses

Final score:

89points

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Dre Mosley 2 years ago

I don't think it's terrible. Probably wouldn't even be in this post if Trump's name wasn't on it.

215points

"That’s the world we live in! Get used to it! Fans of Brutalism — the blocky-industrial-concrete school of architecture — are quick to emphasize that these buildings tell it like it is, as if this somehow excused the fact that they look, at best, dreary, and, at worst, like the headquarters of some kind of post-apocalyptic totalitarian dictatorship," the journalists Adrian Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson wrote in the piece.

#25

Ugly Houses

Final score:

88points

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broken_guy 2 years ago

i wanna live there

69points

#26

Ugly Houses

Final score:

85points

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M Kawai 2 years ago

The building looks like it has the pox

83points

"There’s an easy test for whether a building is beautiful or not. Ask yourself: if this building could speak, would it sound like the Rubaiyat or the works of Shakespeare, or would it make a noise like 'Blorp'? For nearly 100 years, we have been stuck in the Age of Blorp. It is time to learn to speak again."

#27

Ugly Houses

Final score:

83points

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Weed in the Garden 2 years ago

I see Nessie...is that really what they intended?

44points

#28

Ugly Houses

Final score:

81points

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Weed in the Garden 2 years ago

No way I'm gonna find my room if I can't even find the entrance.

57points

#29

Ugly Houses

Final score:

75points

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Karen Grace 2 years ago

Seems like a tremendous waste of space.

52points

#30

Ugly Houses

Final score:

69points

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MissyTheUniverse 2 years ago

Doesn't look bad actually.

55points

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#31

Ugly Houses

Final score:

28points

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broken_guy 2 years ago

ngl looks kinda cool

32points

#32

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

27points

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tw 72 2 years ago

Looks like an old computer punch card

9points

#33

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

26points

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Fraxinus excelsior 2 years ago

After he set fire to it?

26points

#34

Ugly Houses

Final score:

24points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Looks crabby. I bet the architect was a shellfish man.

29points

#35

Ugly Houses

Final score:

24points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Looks like they beheaded a Transformer.

14points

#36

Ugly Houses

Final score:

23points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

The extension out over the water (Seine river) actually has a section of glass floor. It's the office of the minister.

7points

#37

Ugly Houses

Final score:

23points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Ironically trying to avoid a jumbo tax.

8points

#38

Ugly Houses

Final score:

23points

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Helen Downey 2 years ago

For the 'sea' portion I'm getting serious plastic pollution vibes. The front looks like it's off a rake of cans

16points

#39

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

23points

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vishpri 2 years ago

I love this! So colorful!

11points

#40

Ugly Houses

Final score:

22points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

"We Three Kings of Orient Are"

29points

#41

Ugly Houses

Final score:

22points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

It drawers in the tourists.

38points

#42

Ugly Houses

Final score:

22points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

This does not belong here. It looks cool AF.

24points

#43

Ugly Houses

Final score:

22points

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RoanTheMad 2 years ago

all of dubai is ugly. It's a soulless hell.

18points

#44

Ugly Houses

Final score:

21points

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Bored Retsuko 2 years ago

M'kayyyyy

2points

#45

Ugly Houses

Final score:

21points

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Skara Brae 2 years ago

Came with its own wrecking ball.

11points

#46

Ugly Houses

Final score:

21points

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Arthur Waite 2 years ago

And the executive offices are which side?

7points

#47

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

The designer was a basketcase.

10points

#48

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Ronda News Channel 2 years ago

I found a similar building, functioned as a water tower.

6points

#49

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Tempest 2 years ago

Ugly building but love that shade of light blue! 😍

9points

#50

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Weed in the Garden 2 years ago

This is ...spectacular!

12points

#51

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

It's not unfinished, but it isn't really used either. At night the lights are on, but it's totally empty. It is built to "demonstrate the glory of North Korean workers".

16points

#52

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Stephen OHara 2 years ago

Love it!

1point

#53

Ugly Houses

Final score:

20points

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Circa 2 years ago

Ha. Spent many hours studying in there.

6points

#54

Ugly Houses

Final score:

19points

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Cristina Díaz Sierra 2 years ago

Corte Inglés buildings are all the same in all Spanish cities...

3points

#55

Ugly Houses

Final score:

18points

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

Plus all the brickwork on the ground leading up to it is all uneven and you can't get a wheelchair up it easily

5points

#56

Ugly Houses

Final score:

18points

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago

Where's Perry?

4points

#57

Ugly Houses

Final score:

18points

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AP 2 years ago

Very 90's

8points

#58

Ugly Houses

Final score:

18points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Where's the toilet paper??

6points

#59

Ugly Houses

Final score:

18points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

The binoculars are fine, the building next to it? Not so.

23points

#60

Ugly Houses

Final score:

17points

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CatScratch Beaver 2 years ago

It's a shame it wasn't built all the way to the sidewalk. That is what makes this one unattractive. Otherwise, lovely art nouveau building.

5points

#61

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

16points

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SkekVi 2 years ago

This is pretty okay actually?? Like ok it could use some colour but it's got some good funky shapes going on.

0points

#62

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Owen Aeva 2 years ago

This is depressingly boring

9points

#63

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Laura Jackson 2 years ago

Isn't this the worm creature from Tremors?!

7points

#64

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Nicole Tomme 2 years ago

Looks like a computer screen a cat bit.

5points

#65

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Aqsa Azam 2 years ago

This is the place of my 9yo dreams

14points

#66

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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SkekVi 2 years ago

This isn't terrible?

1point

#67

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Weed in the Garden 2 years ago

Stunning - why is this here?

9points

#68

Ugly Houses

Final score:

15points

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Rebecca O’Donnell Premium 2 years ago

My vertigo would have me passing out on the sidewalk before I could get in the door.

5points

#69

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

15points

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Aqsa Azam 2 years ago

So cuteeee! So whimsy

12points

#70

Worlds-Ugliest-Buildings

Final score:

15points

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Marika 2 years ago

Looks like a strange creature from the deep sea with many, many eyes...

8points

#71

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

I don't think it's a failure, nor do I find it ugly.

12points

#72

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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Persephone 2 years ago

Solar roof👍 also really neat looking

4points

#73

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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Tempest 2 years ago

This is cool!

5points

#74

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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Khara Mei 2 years ago

Sorry, I like this building. Just me though, I've always liked it.

19points

#75

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago

It looks like many unfinished projects thrown together

4points

#76

Ugly Houses

Final score:

14points

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Sandy D 2 years ago

This is really kinda awesome

25points

#77

Ugly Houses

Final score:

13points

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Pandora Pandora 2 years ago

The round part in the front is how the load into the trucks! 😂

0points

#78

Ugly Houses

Final score:

13points

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Oerff On Tour 2 years ago

It might look ugly in this picture, but that's because of the angle it is taken. If you look at it from a bit of a distance, you will see it's beauty

15points

#79

Ugly Houses

Final score:

13points

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Lara Verne 2 years ago

It looks like houses that "new money" people build back in the 1990s. These buildings were cheaply made, had zero respect for it's surroundings and on top of that, they were fugly. Many houses like this ended up being empty and unused, and owners are trying to sell them (very unsuccessfully).

8points