Ugly high-rises

[waccamatt]

It doesn't look that bad to me.

That was a flattering picture from their website. I will take a picture of it the next time I'm in Charlotte.

[Inkdaub]

The Ministry of Truth in North Korea. Even if it was completed it would be the ugliest.

This is a hotel, or would have been a hotel. I like it because it's so big and bizarre and apocolyptic...and yes it's ugly. They say the crane will fall and eventually the building will follow. 105 stories I believe.

[bmorescottamanda]

Baltimore

Charles Towers South Apartments

[lammius]

That building in North Korea doesn't have beauty in the standard sense, but I love it!

[mcashlv]

I grew up there. Nice town. Used to be some great older buildings on Main St. that were sadly demolished. You're right--that is a monstrously ugly building. Why do all of them seem to be in the South?

The BB&T building in my city of Greenville, SC gets my vote: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=127342

[wolverine]

The picture Zach posted of Plaza Tower in Ann Arbor is indeed a good example of an ugly hirise. Currently they are refacing it, but the new facade isn't very stellar either.

Oh look at the ugly buildings in this photo. It scared city planners so much that new buildings going up in Ann Arbor have gone back to the classical architecture styles.

[bluff2085]

abandoned medical building in Memphis. If this thing were a car, it would be an '80s, yellow, buick station wagon with 3 hubcaps missing.

[tamias6]

abandoned medical building in Memphis. If this thing were a car, it would be an '80s, yellow, buick station wagon with 3 hubcaps missing.

[GR8scott]

abandoned medical building in Memphis. If this thing were a car, it would be an '80s, yellow, buick station wagon with 3 hubcaps missing.

[Chtimi]

haha thats right there with the gennesse towers in Flint

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=354834

[cityboi]

Here is the ugliest highrise in Greensboro, North Carolina. located on the south end of downtown. The design isnt great but look at the way the building is painted UGGHHH. It use to be all white. Why on earth did they add the ugly brown like that?

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=426431

[TennBear]

Good Gravy! The architect behind this must have stoned himself into a Jimmy Hindriks episode on 52 different flavors of weed when he designed this edifice to ugliness. To me it looks like three buildings stacked on top of each other. Please tell me this building is demoed or soon to be!

[tamias6]

From what I understand, it will be torn down soon.

[TBurban]

I hate the Crowne Plaza in Richmond....it needs to be refacaded desperately. Purple was not a good choice...

Courtesy of RichmondCityWatch.com

[wolverine]

Here's another atrocity in Ann Arbor. U. Towers. One of my friends spent the summer in this building. It's just like a housing project.

I can even see it from my apartment, it should get reclad or torn down.

[mcheiss]

You think that's an ugly housing project, check out the Hillcrest Tower in Fayetteville, Ar.

[tombarnes]

That wins the prize!

[FromCityToRural]

Heh...if I had bandwidth, I'd show you the Smith County Office Building...ugly to begin with and it's lookin pretty raggedy.

[TheBostonian]

[wolverine]

You think that's an ugly housing project, check out the Hillcrest Tower in Fayetteville, Ar.

[RustTown]

On this page, the only bad ones I've seen so far are the Memphis one and the one in Boston. The rest may not be the best looking, but at least they are cohesive.

[tamias6]

Seeing buildings like this makes me wonder if architects back in the 60's and 70's had a secret contest going on among themselves to see who could design the uglest building possible. To think that nine out of ten of these ugly rises replaced older buildings that were ten times prettier and for many holding some kind of historical value. That's the price of process I guess.

[andrew.w]

haha thats right there with the gennesse towers in Flint

http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=354834

[EvanK]

Bellsouth Tower in Birmingham. It is so shockingly nasty that it is impossible to drive by it without laughing.

[mcheiss]

Looks fine to me, in fact I wouldn't mind having one in my city.