The Architecture of Ugliness

From Buckman to Turkson : From Buckman to Turkson: Alternative stories on Ghana's architectural profession. Architectural history of Gha...

I'd quite like to stay at some of these places. I've visited more than one of them already. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pict...

"It is the ugliest, largest wound on the capital. Its architect named it after criticism from English Heritage, who claimed the buildi...

He's at it again. Now the Planning Minister, Nick Boles wants to public to decide on what counts as good design and to 'let the mar...

"...the alleged 'badness' of suburban taste is not that people who live in suburbs have an unaccountable preference for what i...

The Housing Minister, Nick Boles and his lackey Wayne Hemmingway have declared new housing in the UK to be 'Pig Ugly'. http://www...

They don't really get much better than this - The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea has been under construction since 1987, although econom...

'Karl Marx suffered from the same kind of illusions as poor Le Corbusier, whose recent death filled me with great joy. Both of them wer...

The BBC has chosen to celebrate her Majesty's 60th year on the throne, as it were, by raising the question of whether Buckingham Palace...

I didn't ever think this building would feature on this Blog..... http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/01/14/l...

In 1935 an exhibition of working-class flats was organised by the Ministry of Health, to deal with the 'twin problems of overcrowding an...

Another article complaining about modern architecture and cities being ugly including the 1990s New Labour regeneration. The article include...

You have to admire the Buildings of England series - by Nikolaus Pevsner. Their detailed descriptions and usefulness whilst traveling is wi...

A debate was triggered on the following site http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=3&nav=messages&webtag=ab-architecture&...

A report in 'The Builder'  vol. 134,  April 13, 1928, p608: "There is hardly a town or village, at any rate in the Home Counti...

Whilst Oxford is renowned for its wonderful architecture  [Bodleian Library, Wrens Theatre, numerous college quadrangles etc. etc.]; it also...

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/why-is-green-architecture-ugly.php Treehugger ask a crucial question: Why is so much green archite...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1231948/Why-sordid-art-like-Tracey-Emins-led-cult-ugliness-Britain.html  According to the Daily M...

Writing for the Architectural Review in 1935 Marcel Breuer attempted to set the record straight in his article, “Where do we Stand?”. He dis...

See the image for Serlio's, "rather ugly version of the Composite" order. The image is a wood cut from 1540 showing the five ...

"London's most unloved building" ( Esher, L. (1981). A Broken Wave: the rebuilding of England, 1940-1980. Harmondsworth, Peng...

"Just as the ugliness of Modernism in architecture and fashion go hand in hand, so the timeless ideal in building, with all of its sen...

"In the early post-war period, Lawn Road Flats won second prize in the Ugliest Building Competition organized by Cyeil Connolly's H...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/birmingham-named-uks-ugliest-city-963311.html 40% of Birmingham residents voted for thei...

 The Barbican Centre, topped a poll for London's most ugliest building according to a report on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk...