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27 Ugliest buildings in the world That you have to see to believe it

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Most of the time you often search for the world’s most beautiful places to visit or the beautiful structures in the world? But have you ever think about searching for the worst buildings? Maybe not!

So far you have only seen beautiful things today we bring out the list of some of the ugliest buildings ever seen. It is really frightening how some buildings can be so ugly. This section of the article will make you say – what the heck are the architectures of these buildings were thinking of?

Today, we focus on the list of some unattractive and ugly buildings you will wonder how these are made. However, these are the ugliest buildings in the world that you have to look after to believe.

1. Selfridges Building, England

Don’t be afraid, it’s a shopping centre in England. This building was completed in 2003 and you won’t believe it cost £60 million.  It has its name in the list of world’s ugliest buildings. 

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2. The Elephant Tower, Bangkok

This building construction was completed in 1997. It is situated in Bangkok and is one of the most iconic places in the city. You won’t believe that it ranks among the world’s ugliest structures list. It is supposed to look like an elephant but… Can you see it here?

3. Harold Washington Library, Illinois

It is the Harold Washington Library that is a combination of weird Neoclassical features and the glass-steel mannerism. It is located at the 400s state street in Chicago.

4. Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea

This is an unfinished 150-story building in a pyramid shape. It was the ambition of the North Korean Government’s to build the world’s tallest building in their country. You can see above how it looks someone find it unique more than ugliest.

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5. Zizkov Television Tower

Prague is full of amazing and unique architectural jewels. However, this Tower is definitely not among them. You may think what is on the sculptures, yes they are babies crawling through the tower. It really looks ugly, don’t they?

6. Kaden Tower

In Spite of fine details and efforts of the architectures to make this building, it has not stopped itself to be in the list of ugliest buildings in the world. Still, hats off the efforts put in the construction of the building.

7. Landmark Theatre, England

No don’t get wrong these are not nuclear reactors, it is the landmark Theatre situated in Devon. It looks really horrific that we have to think twice before entering the theatre.

8. Agbar Tower, Spain

The concept behind this architectural building is to recall the shape of a geyser soaring into the air. However, some people say the shape of this building reminds us of a completely different thing.

9. First World Hotel, Malaysia

We know that colorful buildings are usually recognized as optimistic and cheerful. But this huge Malaysian hotel has got nothing like cheerfulness. Having 6,100 rooms, this architecture clearly shows how paintwork can ruin everything.

10. Federation Square, Australia

This building is situated in the inner of the Melbourne city. The design of this made actually worse by the series of a web of wires lying above the structures.

11. The Fang Yuan Building, China

This coin-shaped building was not able to achieve the level of creativity to stay away from the list of ugliest buildings in Shenyang of China.

12. The Portland Building, Oregon

The Portland building features small boring windows, off white masonry, and terracotta pilasters have highly contributed to the ugliness factor.

13. Delftware Warming Station, The Netherlands

According to a leading Dutch newspaper, it is notable to be recognized as the worst building in Holland.

14. The Rock, Wellington International Airport, New Zealand

In the list of ugliest buildings around the world, this expansion of Wellington International Airport in New Zealand was built in 2010.

15. Boston City Hall, Massachusetts

Even though it was considered to be chic, stylish, and cool for its time, the building is often criticized for its dullness and awkward architecture.

16. CCTV Tower, Beijing, China

While working as the headquarters to China Central Television, this unique designed building is also known as “Squatting Man”.

17. The Corn Palace, South Dakota

Sometimes known as the ugliest building in the Midwest, the appearance is redesigned every year in different kinds of corn to revamp a view of pioneer life.

18. Federal Building, San Fransisco

Despite the fact this government building is considered favorable to the environment, some locals complain that it is not that much friendly for the eyes.

19. La Lavadora, Mexico City

Known as La Lavadora, or “the washer”. Set in an upscale business district of Mexico City, it certainly stands against the background and given rise to mixed reactions, regarding its architecture.

20. Pangu Hotel, Beijing

Another example of an interesting piece of Chinese architecture, there is no other city with so many entries on the list of “ugly buildings” than Beijing.

21. Žižkov Television Tower, Prague, Czech Republic

Žižkov Television Tower belongs to the communist reign; the Tower is often considered to be one of the world’s most ugly buildings. It was warmly greeted by locals; it certainly ruined the beautiful skyline of the city.

22. Stora Enso Building, Finland

Stora Enso Oyj Building is a paper and pulp manufacturer with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland; consist of significant operations in four continents.

The company was formed by bringing together Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora AB and Finnish forestry products company Enso Oyj in 1998. The company has near about 25,000 employees (2016).

23. Edificio Mirador, Spain

being in the spotlight by a large hole in your center, different colors represent different apartment blocks, each with its own plan.

24. Music Project, Seattle, Washington

The avant-garde architect of this building,  Frank Gehry, is very-well know with the fact that the structure is not pleasing to the eye.

25. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, England

As per the saying of Travel + Leisure, when the Cathedral was opened in 1967, the mosaic tiles began to fall and the roof started leaking. when you talk about the first impression, those spires don’t attract people at all.

26. M16 Building, London, England

What about this government intelligence agency that draws out bad design? The SIS or M16, the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, has without a doubt topped the list of ‘ugliest building’ in the world.

27. Roundhouses, Netherlands

After the construction of 50 or more in the 1970s, for some obvious reasons, there was not enough support to continue the construction of these ahead of its time houses in the small European country.

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