Worst. Building. Ever.

Exit

Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

Sundy

huh, makes the irish life centre look nice!

DMT

WTF?

Capt'n Midnight

If all the tiles & supports were the same colour it wouldn't look too bad.

Nomination: Wood Quay.

luckat

My favourite house:

http://www.archinform.net/projekte/4325.htm?ID=53166540300ee3717ed8cef8e4e52ee6

Crimson

or dear anyone else feel like there in the 80s again ?:dunno:

Kalina

It looks like a tissue box on legs! Tasteless to say the least.

dod

No contest, the worst building in the world (and Dublin has many contenders for this dubious accolade) has to be Hawkins House, Poolbeg Street (opposite Mulligans pub). My criteria is, if you were to be granted the opportunity to demolish only one building, which building would it be? For me, the answer most certainly is Hawkins House.

Atreides

Thast applo house sin't it? Thats what it says on the tara street entrance.

po0k

Originally posted by Exit


Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

Looks like a bad Half-life map.

Agent Smith

a decent nomination has to be the British embasey in dublin (ballsbridge)



worse building ever!

DadaKopf

I like it. It's good to see architects stretching their imagination and pushing the limits of engineering capabilities.

I'd love to see a building like that in Dublin. It reminds me a lot of London's Peckham Library that won the Stirling Prize two contests ago. Most of it stands up on what are, effectively, stilts and inside there's aren't study rooms, there's reading 'pods' or something. OUTRAGEOUS!
It also reminds me of Le Centre Georges Pompidou.

As for Apollo House, the only word I have to describe that vessel is "sick". The building literally looks ill, as if it and its corpuscular inhabitants are in bad need of a good dose of medicine.

Hmm, do you suppose your feelings on the British Embassy says more about your nationalist sentiments than it does about a laudable effort to balance security, modernity and tradition into one vision of domination? Not the best, but definitely not the worst.

Töpher

Originally posted by agent smith
a decent nomination has to be the British embasey in dublin (ballsbridge)



worse building ever!

What an eye-sore!! Every fúcking morning I have to look at that piece o' crap! ACK! Hate it!

Cabaal

Originally posted by Exit

It looks like it was designed in MS Paint and then cleaned up abit and given a 3D Look

mike65

Yes it is finnished and has'nt just been bombed. I like it!

Mike.

phreak

Originally posted by mike65


Yes it is finnished and has'nt just been bombed. I like it!

Mike.

where is that?

mike65

I think its in Prague.

Now heres the kind of thing to hate-


Mike.

dod

where is that?

Thats the offices of my family solicitor. At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear. The buildings, individuals, cereals, shopping centres, laws, corporations and institutions to which my mother decides to take irrational exception usually recover after a few hundred years.

Or if she throws an equal and opposite wobbly in a nearby building, she might unintentionally bend that building back to its original dimensions.

mike65

At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear

Someones on the extra-strong...!



Dramatic and cool...

Mike.

sceptre

Originally posted by dod
Thats the offices of my family solicitor. At the moment my mother is on the third floor throwing a wobbly, and time and space is warping around her in fear. The buildings, individuals, cereals, shopping centres, laws, corporations and institutions to which my mother decides to take irrational exception usually recover after a few hundred years.

Like dod said, it's in Prague.

Turkey

Worst building, is it :cool: to quote Bono; " I see seven towers........"

AdMMM

Originally posted by Exit


Looks like a joke, but it's not.
More here - http://www.ocad.on.ca/

You'd wonder what the architect's inspiration was...

DadaKopf

Oh! I was right!

Meet Our Architects
In November 2000, OCAD selected European firm Alsop Architects as design architect to work in a joint venture with Toronto-based Robbie/Young + Wright, the project architect, to produce OCAD's capital expansion project.

Award-winning, Alsop Architects, led by William Alsop, is known for bold and innovative building design. Only days before OCAD's decision, the firm received the top architectural honour in the UK, the Stirling Prize for the Building of the Year, for its Peckham Library and Media Centre in London.

"We are absolutely thrilled to embark on this project with such an important architectural group", says Lenore Richards, OCAD's Dean of the Faculty of Design. "The originality and sophistication that Alsop Architects has demonstrated in previous design projects is outstanding. The boldness in its vocabulary of form, materials and colour results in buildings that are engaging and extraordinarily memorable. The design capabilities of Alsop Architects, combined with the project management expertise of Robbie/Young + Wright, give us great confidence that our new Centre for Design will become a remarkable new landmark in the city of Toronto."

Specific Information about OCAD's project can also be found on the architects' Web sites.

Links:
Alsop Architects
Robbie Young + Wright Architects


from http://www.ocad.on.ca/welcomC/Carchitects.html

It always helps to read stuff before you go asking stupid questions.

And by the way, that warped office block in Prague was designed by Frank Gehry, the guy who designed this:


The Guggenheim in Bilbao

Jokah

That building that Dod posted up is an embarrassment to the Irish People. Thank god its hidden behind the buildings on D'olier street.

You only have to stand outside it, to see that you wouldn't board your dog there.

I agree with Dod, it should be demolished. I believe the department of Children and Health is based in that building also.

Sham, Sham, Sham.....

Such a depressing building...

Atreides

Originally posted by Jokah
That building that Dod posted up is an embarrassment to the Irish People. Thank god its hidden behind the buildings on D'olier street.

You only have to stand outside it, to see that you wouldn't board your dog there.

I agree with Dod, it should be demolished. I believe the department of Children and Health is based in that building also.

Sham, Sham, Sham.....

Such a depressing building...

Nope Revenue used to have it, its now where all the refuses go. Department of immigration

monument

Originally posted by |.Murderer.|
You'd wonder what the architect's inspiration was...

Probably the central bank.

BuffyBot

Britsh Embassy? It's not so bad when you compare it to the American one up the road..and is it a Texaco (some Petrol company I think) building also nearby. Now they are ugly.


Also, if anyone is familar with Naas, the eircom exchange building has to be one of the ugliest buildings built in the county of Kildare

Kold

Originally posted by DadaKopf



The Guggenheim in Bilbao

That's actually class.

oneweb

Originally posted by dod
No contest, the worst building in the world (and Dublin has many contenders for this dubious accolade) has to be Hawkins House, Poolbeg Street (opposite Mulligans pub). My criteria is, if you were to be granted the opportunity to demolish only one building, which building would it be? For me, the answer most certainly is Hawkins House.

I'm not joking here, but that's the Department of Health & Safety building, right? If you walk past (hurridly, for fear of it tumbling at any moment) just look at the state of the window frames :eek: I wouldn't tread anywhere near it if I didn't have to get my bus down the road. Unhealthy and unsafe? Very likely.

blondie83

While I was visiting a friend down in Cork last Summer, and we drove past the worst building ever - turns out to be the county council offices. It actually looks a lot worse than it is in this photo (it's a photo from their website)

http://members.boards.ie/blondie83/cork.jpg

Kold

ah but in all fairness you haven't seen it on winter nights.. they leave the lights of offices on in the shape of an xmas tree.... *sigh* romantic...

revelate

http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/berkeley.html

our college library..nice eh?

Cabaal

Originally posted by blondie83
While I was visiting a friend down in Cork last Summer, and we drove past the worst building ever - turns out to be the county council offices.

CC offices almost always suck to look at
so no surprise here

Töpher

Originally posted by BuffyBot
Britsh Embassy? It's not so bad when you compare it to the American one up the road..and is it a Texaco (some Petrol company I think) building also nearby. Now they are ugly.

Ewww, looks like they didn't have the money to fill the building out to the walls! Like where the fúck did the corners go?!

kano476

That OCAD building is also nicely placed right next to a quaint little house. wonder what would having a giant tissue box next door do for house prices?

DadaKopf

The whole area is a university campus in Toronto.

kano476

ah. still looks out of place though.

dangerman

lol, me and my mates were lost in prague, just wandering the streets and we saw this building.

thought it was pretty damned cool.

Panda

tbh i think its looks cool,

at least its a bit different.
the one the mike65 posted looks a bit like one of the buildings in nuig....

the way things are going anything is better than the utter ****e low cost warehousing that are popping up in their dozens around galway and ireland.

eg:


oh and


blergh.

Jokah

Someone actually built this...The Simpsons house. Just got it in an email.

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Part of a theme park maybe?

Don1

Here's my contribution.

whosurpaddy

for me it has to be the credit union building in artane. its a sickening peach kinda color, and if that wasnt bad enought they stuck a massive brass square sticking out(not in line with) of one corner. it makes me want to puke every time i look at it. and its right beside my sisters house so i have to see it quite often.

mike65

I think the boyos are re-furbishing the offices arn't they?

Mike.

BuffyBot

for me it has to be the credit union building in artane. its a sickening peach kinda color, and if that wasnt bad enought they stuck a massive brass square sticking out(not in line with) of one corner. it makes me want to puke every time i look at it. and its right beside my sisters house so i have to see it quite often.

It has an eerily familar look...something similar to the recent set of council apartments/housing on the Limerick Road in Naas. Wonder if it's the same architect

flangeman

That odd one is in Prague alright, its quite nice really.

The inspiration is supposed to come from Fred Astare and Ginger Roberts having a bit of a dance.

I love the Prague underground, noww thats the business!!

tba

Originally posted by flangeman
The inspiration is supposed to come from Fred Astare and Ginger Roberts having a bit of a dance.

Thats right

tba

Of course the real problem buildings in Ireland are things like this


Why? especially when things like this are being made

blondie83

I think the boyos are re-furbishing the offices arn't they?

Acording to their web site they're planning an extension. Wow, I can't believe I've nothing better to do than look up the Cork county council website! (memo to self, get a life:D )

monument

Originally posted by tba
Of course the real problem buildings in Ireland are things like this


Why?

Because it’s the “Irish dream” – your own land, a detached house, some grass, a shed, a driveway, and a picket fence or a stone/block wall.

demosuzki

i lived in stockholm for a while. one of the swedish national papers DN do an annual poll on the worst buildings in sweden. funny enough, but for the right reasons, the architecture school wins every year. its like a 70s concrete brick.
sorry. can't find a photo.

cournioni

Originally posted by DMT
WTF?

My thoughts exactly.