“Welcome To Toilet Headquarters” — 47 Of The Ugliest Buildings From Around The World
I’ve always loved architecture, whether it’s old cathedrals, beautiful Art Deco buildings, cozy little houses, or modern designs that actually feel thoughtful and human.
That’s why I’m always fascinated when I come across a building so unbelievably ugly that it almost feels impressive. Because buildings take a massive amount of money, planning, and time to create, which means at some point a whole room full of people looked at these designs and said, “Yep. Perfect. Build it.”
The buildings in this post range from bizarre to downright hostile to the human spirit. These are some of the ugliest buildings people from around the world could think of, and honestly, some of them look like failed boss levels in a dystopian video game.
1. Bank In Tuzla, Bosnia
2. Museum Of Pop Culture In Seattle
3. Instead Of Showing Actually Cool Building I’ll Follow The Task, Mexico
4. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) Headquarters In Hyderabad, India
5. The Jiangsu Hairy Crab Building Refers To The “Hairy Crab Ecological Museum” Located On The Shore Of Yangcheng Lake In Kunshan, Suzhou, China
6. Maybe Not The Whole Country, But This Building In Calgary Makes Me Irrationally Mad
7. Weymouth Street Student Accommodation (Australia). This Is The Ugliest Building In My City
8. Home Of The Richest Man In India, This Architectural Malpractice Cost 1 Billion Dollars By The Way
9. A Lot Of The Mixed Commercial-Residential Complexes In Taiwan Are Such Eye Sores
10. Boston City Hall Looks Like A Prison
11. For Me Is This One In Buenos Aires City
12. You Might Think This Is An Ugly Apartment Or Government Building. But In Fact It’s A Pig Farm. A 26 Storey Pig Farm. Outputs 1 Million Pigs A Year
13. North China University Of Water Resources And Electric Power Has Them Beat
14. These Student Housing Appartments In The Netherlands Are Quite Insulting
15. This Building In São Paulo. I Worked In It For A Month. It’s Also Ugly Inside. It Just Looks… Wrong
16. This Is The Town Hall Of The City That I Went To High School In, We Nicknamed It “The Pimple”
17. Tokyo. I Think It’s Pretty Ugly
18. Wyndham Court, Southampton, England
19. Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom, Germany
20. The Ugliest Building In The Us Is Probably Simmons Hall, A Dormitory Building At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
21. Fanum House In Belfast
22. Hotel In Edinburgh, Scotland
23. I Don’t Know About The Rest Of The Country But Brisbane’s Ugliest Is Probably The Parliamentary Annex
24. Elephant Building In Bangkok, Thailand
25. The Hq Of The People Liberation Army, Hong Kong
26. The New Embassy Here In The City Has To Be One Of The Single Ugliest Buildings I’ve Seen Built In Recent Years (Mexico)
27. Crack Stacks. Minneapolis, MN
28. Blues Point Tower In Sydney Is Generally Regarded As One Of The Ugliest In Australia
29. Salesforce Tower Is A Disgrace To The San Francisco Skyline
30. The Beehive, Wellington, New Zealand
31. This Building Trump Tower In New York City Is The Ugliest Building And Not Only Because Of The Owner
32. This Example Of High Australian Architecture Is Up For Sale
33. The North Dakota State Capitol
34. It’ll Be A Contest Between All The Different Telstra Phone Exchanges In Our Major Cities. Here’s The One On Kent Street In Sydney, Although The One On Exhibition Street In Melbourne Isn’t Much Better
35. In Sweden, The Station Building Next To The Train Station
36. The Wrapper Office Building In Culver City, CA, Gets My Vote. It Looks Even Worse Close Up
37. What Could Be Worse Than A Grey Cube? A Grey Cube With Ugly Windows. Embassy Of The United States, London
38. The Tour Montparnasse Is Ugly As Sin
39. World Toilet Association, Located In Suwon, South Korea
40. A Building At The Wellington International Airport Called The Rock
41. We Did Have These Big Wool Bales In A Sheep Industry Heavy Town But They Got Demolished Due To Termite Damage (Australia)
42. In Japan, We Have The Asahi Buildings Which House The Asahi Breweries HQ
43. River North One In Denver, Colorado
44. I Despise The Thompson Center, Tennessee, USA
45. Burj Al Babas Is An Abandoned Residential Development In Mudurnu, Turkey
46. The Toilet Bowl Building, Virginia. USA
47. The Orthodox Cathedral In Bucharest, Romania Fits Here
