Top 10 UGLIEST Buildings in London
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- London is full of wonderful architecture and magnificent things to see. But that's not what this video is all about. In this video I list the top 10 ugliest buildings in London!
This list covers my own picks for the ugliest buildings in the greater London area. The buildings covered in this list are the following:
10. No 1 Poultry - a very strange postmodern building from 1997
9. Strata SE1 - also called the Strata Tower, a tower that looks like a giant electric razor
8. The Blue Fin Building - made up of 2000 metal plates in various shades of blue
7. The Macadam Building - named after Sir Ivison Macadam...and it looks like a prison
6. The Walkie-Talkie - a tall building that gives the London skyline a slightly silly look
5. The Vauxhall Tower and St George Wharf - is that a giant nosehair trimmer...?
4. ArcelorMittal Orbit - the strangest and largest public monument in London
3. The SIS Building - home of the MI6, and it looks like the lair of an evil Bond villain
2. Tate Modern - located inside an old power plant that they haven't tried to make any prettier at all
1. The Ministry of Justice - an insanely ugly brutalist concrete building
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England should design in their traditional styles so they can have that beauty back in their city.
That would be great! And the same for Stockholm actually...
@@ThreeStarVagabond yes it would be great, modernism doesn't understand the beauty of traditional design.
No surprise that they are all modern. Modern architecture, in general, is simply pure rubbish there are loads of videos on youtube about this.
Well put! Yeah, I guess it's just preaching to the choir, this one
Thank you for this video. There are some beautiful modern architectural buildings designs. But unfortunately there are far too many hideous looking concepts brought about to fruition by architects who possibly have a ditziness towards our architectural past.
Thank you for checking out the video! It's all just my layman opinions of course, but I'm happy that I'm not alone in these thoughts.
Apparently the turbines of the Strata never worked, so they are useless and also the windows of the building can’t be open, so people lives there and can’t open ever a window. I’m agree is an ugly and also terrible building 😅
That's amazing! (Amazingly bad, that is.) I wish I knew that when recording the video. There was a small heatwave at the time as well, so imagine being stuck up there with no way to cool off... ^^
My only stipulation for a building to be 'good', is that it should have noticeable decorative details. It is buildings without facades, those cardboard boxes with rows of soulless windows, that to me, make any place ugly with their presence. I love art-deco because although modern looking, it is full of detail, but when it comes to brutalism, i can count on two fingers the buildings i like in that style. (the barbican, because of its inclusion of greenery, and the chapel at Ronchamp, as nobody has to actually live in it) great video, i agree with you on all of them.
Haha, with your first notes I suspected that you'd disagree with my choices - but it seems that we're pretty likeminded after all. It seems like I need to check out the Ronchamp chapel - and the Barbican as well for that matter!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Well i must confess to one small disagreement, you liked the shard, and i think that's pretty horrible, but as you say taste is purely a personal thing. :)
As we say in Swedish: tastes are like behinds - split :D
The more I consider architecture and aesthetics the more complex it can seem. I generally tend to agree that all these buildings although unique or interesting are also unpleasant looking and effect the streetscape in a negative way. Ideally buildings shouldn’t be seen as ugly or semi ugly by anyone let alone high proportion of people. Some would argue that the uniqueness or the snap shot of a certain year or decade is exactly what gives them value and even makes them not ugly and actually attractive. Similar to how we judge art it gets subjective. The difference with art it generally isn’t so big or permanent like a building and the aesthetics are not as important to how a city looks.
Good points! In all honesty, I don't really mind "ugly" architecture - interesting is better than bland at least, in my view. But it really does affect a lot of people and is a big part of the city's appearance, so maybe a little bit more thought should be put into the designs...
I'm watching this in bed, in The Guoman Tower Hotel. It has THE best view of any hotel in London, but it's 1973 Brutalist construction, and imposing size is something to behold. It definitely belongs on this list... 😎✌🏼💜
Oh! That was definitely an eyesore - I hadn't seen it before, so I googled it right now. Yes indeed, that one should definitely have been included...
Oh look, the Orbit is here. Looking at it now, at a glance it could be mistaken for so many destroyed, rusty Russian tanks from Ukraine, all balanced on top of each other, although that would at least have some pertinence. This eye sore is just an imitation of scrap metal wrought out of genuine scrap metal. I remember casually telling the architect to his face, that he didn't value aesthetics enough, but I forget his name! As an antique dealer, I was selling a C17th carved tiger's tooth with a bust of Queen Isabella of Spain carved on it, but he always thought he should be able to buy genuine art on the cheap, whilst he earned a fortune for polluting the cityscape with Meccano. He walked off in a huff. I wish the Olympic committee had given a giant huff to this. No matter, a winter storm could still 'do' for it...........
I wish there is a parallel world 🌎 that Old London exist 🙄🤔😇
Alas, all we have is a concrete jungle these days. Nah, it's not that bad. But I would really like it if people stopped tearing down amazing old buildings in every city.
The art in Tate Modern is brutal, too. It's Modern art, after all ;)
Haha! Too modern for my unpolished tastes :D
When I think of the campaign to destroy the old C19th Mappin and Webb building at Poultry, for the benefit of this candy striped monster, it reminds me to instinctively rebel against anything my elitist superiors have to say about art and architecture. Listed I believe, simply because of the reputation of the architect, not because it makes any sense at this sensitive site, nor any sensitivity of execution. A tincy wincy frieze is completely lost amongst the mega slabs, and looks like the merest concession to the then Prince Charles and his classical spirit. I don't think much of the crematorium chimney behind the clock tower either, I think the Egyptians disposed of their dead in much more glorious buildings.
Nevermind it being listed or not, soon enough some developer will challenge its status, just like the greedy developer that built it in the first place, was driven by money to destroy the then existing building before this. Mind you, there's money in its destruction, just think of all those pink marble sink backs they could make out of it. I suppose this could have been (slightly) better than the van der Rohe tower block, which was an attempt to turn London into Europe's Gotham City.
Hope I live to see it come down........
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Interesting 👍
Thank you :D
I absolutely love No. 1 Poultry, I think it's Grade II* for a reason! 5 Broadgate is definitely up there though, hideous building 😂
Haha, I guess some of my picks are a bit questionable to some. But yeah, Broadgate might not be the most lovely building ever either :D
I preferred the building that stood there before it, which was also Grade II listed and somehow demolished.
@@caesar7734 Too bad to hear that! I don't think I know which building stood there unfortunately...
2:06 Looks like my little coffee grinder.
Some say razor, some coffee grinder... Whatever it is, it's not a building!
Mostly I wished they had all been built in Docklands where they could all snap and snarl in competition with each other for attention and allow dear St Pauls its old postion on the horizon once more.This business of implanting these huge monsters in among other streets of character has peeved me since they began to wreck my native city of Auckland in the 1960s and 70s. Now it is totally ruined.
Sorry to hear that! Stockholm has also been completely ravaged in the 40s and up until modern times, with hideous new buildings... It's such a pity!
Sometimes i thing they do on purpose to built this ugly building they shouldnt built this at least in central london crustopher wren will be rolling on his grave🤔🤔🤔🤔
Agreed! It must have been such a sight when his spires were dominating the skyline. Unlike today....
Check the poultry buildi g it was byilt in 1994 check the old building it was mu h bettet😥
@@mikaprecious6875 Totally agree! :/ Poultry is interesting...but it's just not pretty in the same way at all!
It seems there are not many buildings in London older than 250 years 🤔
I think there are plenty of old buildings as well in the city - it's just that I didn't think they were all that ugly ;D
There are LOADS of buildings over 250 years old in London!!.. even considering the Blitz annihilated most of the city centre...
Agreed!
10 is less at least 100 i can mention🤗🤗🤗
Haha! It was difficult picking just 10 :D
That interesting!! Some of the buildings I don’t see them has ugly. I kinda liked some of the buildings…maybe because I’m a civil engineer. I do agree the “James Bond” building is not that nice
Thank you! Haha yeah, I'm fully expecting people to be quite upset with some of my choices - but at least it seems like I picked a really bad one correctly then 😀
1:45 a sky shaver.
Haha, I love that name! Sky shaver, that's bloody brilliant :D
1:07 Why is this building the definition of postmodernism? There are much nicer postmodern buildings in London such as 155 Bishopsgate.
I think I should have framed that as "definition of postmodernism that fits in with a set of (IMO) ugly buildings". 155 Bishopsgate looks pretty nice doesn't it?
you missed out the Ocotopus aka V and A East
Oh wow, that does look pretty horrible... I totally missed that one - thanks for the addition!
I liked the Makadam building and the Ministry of Justice. ^___^ thank you.
Haha! I guess I'm just a bit picky about brutalist design, right? It's an aquired taste I guess :D
8:34 is like that petshop boys commie vídeo but if were straight
In my head… I was wondering how Boris Johnson would react to your video 🤣
I think he could have used a good laugh today! Maybe I should send it to him :D