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what is london's worst building?

what is london's worst building?

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The new one.
Although MI6 isn't great, at least it's built well, with good detailing.
 
St George's Wharf definitely I reckon

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Absolute monstrosity. Luckily it's only rich people that live there. Obviously have no taste


Can't believe how crap it looks and the poor residents who think they're being trendy and cool are probably going to be totally horrified in a few years when it finally dawns on them just how ugly it is
 
HackneyE9 said:
The Institute of Education is a civilised icon, by Denis Lasdun. It's absolutley beautiful. Why not try picking a real monstrosity, like all the shit that's just gone up alongside St Pauls? Or any of the bog-standard pre-fab 'made of marble so it must be classy' Canary Wharf office blocks
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Have you ever had to walk into it, day after day? it's a building that tries really hard to stop light getting in - even though the windows. I like the hayward gallery and national theatre - it isn't the style of architecture i object to - it's just a fucking depressing building to walk into (it's those upward sloping lips of concrete at ground level that i particularly hate).
 
It's not the best, but it's not actually on Russell Square either. I overlook it from the SOAS library and have used the library there on occasion for teaching stuff.
 
gaijingirl said:
It's not the best, but it's not actually on Russell Square either. I overlook it from the SOAS library and have used the library there on occasion for teaching stuff.
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pedant :p
 
That fucking thing in Morden. It could be Morden actually. Yeah, just flatted Morden to make sure of it.
 
Senate House is pretty damned ugly:

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Apparently, George Orwell had it in mind when he created the Ministries in 1984. Some people still refer to it as the Ministry of Love...
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
St George's Wharf definitely I reckon

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Absolute monstrosity. Luckily it's only rich people that live there. Obviously have no taste


Can't believe how crap it looks and the poor residents who think they're being trendy and cool are probably going to be totally horrified in a few years when it finally dawns on them just how ugly it is
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That's why Jay Kay lives there. Mind you it will soon be dwarfed by tallest building in London which will also block their views down the river
 
Orang Utan said:
My pet hate is the BT building in Vauxhall - Keybridge House
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Agreed, fucking hate that place. Mainly cos of having to actually work inside it and getting BT to do anyfuckjngthingatall done was a major pain in the arse.

One building thats contents really showed what a clusterfuck BT had become.
 
What I like about the South Bank is that it's constantly changing - one minute there'll be grass growing up a building, or Anthony Gormley statues - various projections, impromptu stages set up etc etc. I go past it most days and always wonder what I'll see there next.
 
Ah Crown House Firky, the town hall/library/council offices. Worryingly it's probably not even the ugliest thing in Morden.

I actually used to run the social/working men's club in that monstrosity, hidden away on the 1st floor. Chas n Dave, Mike Read, some othe cockney wanker you've never heard of... we had all the stars there..

:D
 
Roadkill said:
Senate House is pretty damned ugly:

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Apparently, George Orwell had it in mind when he created the Ministries in 1984. Some people still refer to it as the Ministry of Love...
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i think that's rather lovely.
 
Kanda said:
Agreed, fucking hate that place. Mainly cos of having to actually work inside it and getting BT to do anyfuckjngthingatall done was a major pain in the arse.

One building thats contents really showed what a clusterfuck BT had become.
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Lets just face it most of Vauxhall is ugly
 
There is a flat above a Texaco petrol station on the Askew Road which I reckon is one of the most horrible flats in London.

As Minnie says, St George's Wharf is not nice nor are many of the flats built along the river recently. Around Wandsworth Bridge there are many bad newly built flats as well as overpriced and poorly refurbished former local authority flats.
 
I really don't find St Georges Wharf that bad. It probably won't age well (in the physical sense I mean, not the stylistic) but at the moment I think it looks fine :p
 
Brainaddict said:
I really don't find St Georges Wharf that bad. It probably won't age well (in the physical sense I mean, not the stylistic) but at the moment I think it looks fine :p
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It's horrible pomo crap. What are all those 'wings' meant to do, apart from look disturbingly look a giant pair of Dennis Healey eyebrows.

It's just a nothing building. All that money for luxury apartments and they build the inoffensive housing equivalent of large grey Ford Mondeo.
 
tarannau said:
It's horrible pomo crap. What are all those 'wings' meant to do, apart from look disturbingly look a giant pair of Dennis Healey eyebrows.

It's just a nothing building. All that money for luxury apartments and they build the inoffensive housing equivalent of large grey Ford Mondeo.
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It's obviously offended *someone* :D

I like pomo buildings :)

And what do you mean what are the wings 'meant to do'? Should every part of a building be purely functional?
 
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