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Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani spends $2 billion on this.

Friday FUGLY

1960's bureaucratic modernism

Friday Fugly

is back... with a photographic proof that some people should never be allowed to to design anything except maybe bowling shoes.

Architectural crime - Exhibit A

An Architectural Crime Against Nature

"Bunker" cottage in the woods. An award winner.











All that's missing are the blast doors.
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Another award winner from the 1940s.

Fugly Bonus

Funeral home? Bad bank building? Mistake? It is a block long private home in Brooklyn. Obviously a Palladio design, but unfortunately not Andrea. It must have been his cousin Leroy Palladio.

Fugly Tuesday

Metropolitan Cathedral; Liverpool, England, consecrated in 1967

Friday Fugly Ain't

The Ugly House isn't.

Friday FUGLY: Art Museum Of Alberta

Musugly

It looks like a Darth Vader vacuum repair shop.

Friday FUGLY: Why?

Heliotrop®
The rotating solar house Heliotrop® is based on the idea of erecting a building that comes up to the highest standards of architecture and environmental protection while at the same time offering its inhabitants exclusive living comfort without any annoying limitations.

The Heliotrop® is not only a residential and office building of an exceptional architecture, above all, it stands for a concept whose procedure aims at preserving the natural resources in every way. For the very first time, the forward-looking standard of the Plusenergiehaus® has been arranged to achieve a unique experience of living.

"annoying limitations"? Well. at least annoying.

Friday FUGLY: Kabul Poppy Palace

Believe it, this is a house. It looks a lot like the jukebox at Buttsies Bar & Grill, though not as pretty.

Church of England Gives Bum Rap

Via Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

In an almost dead heat, the Church of England and the Episcopal Church here in America, are spiraling downward in a total "who cares" state of affairs.

At the fourth post it appears the Church of England is leading by a nose with Rappin' Rowan at the reins:

Listen up, rappin' crew, come on in and take a pew... church tries to appeal to the young

In the beginning, the elders gathered and set up a mighty cry: How are we to get young people into church? And, lo, they decreed: Let there be rap.

In a move which risks ridicule, the Church of England has turned to street culture in the hope of attracting new blood.

A radio advert will appeal to the lapsed faithful to 'stop, turn around, walk back' to church on Sunday.

The spoken message, voiced by a series of actors, is described by the Church as 'a rap-style poem'.

The ad is the latest in a 15-year campaign by the C of E to use advertising to boost church attendances and attract the attention of those, in particular the young, who have no interest in Christianity.

Past efforts have met with mixed success. One mid-1990s slogan that declared Christmas to be a 'bad hair day' won universal mockery.

The C of E's usual Sunday attendance figures dropped below the one million figure at the turn of the millennium and have fallen at the most recent count to 871,000.

The new advert, produced by a Christian agency based in Bradford, aims to assure its young target audience that they do not need to dress up to go to church.

In defiance of the idea of Sunday best, the 40-second routine, which is not set to a drum beat, suggests that congregations where people make an effort to look smart could lack sincerity.
The grammar also does little credit to the C of E's efforts in the thousands of secondary and primary schools it helps run.

It says: 'Don't look to make no airs and graces. Faked up smiles and masked up faces. No need to make no innovation. Please accept this as your invitation.'

The poem won endorsement from Lambeth Palace, where the Archbishop of Canterbury's adviser on church growth, Canon Paul Bayes, said it was 'a great opportunity for churches to speak to their communities with the message of invitation.'

The advert will appear on commercial radio stations as part of a timeshare system in which parishes have been encouraged to club together with other local churches to buy airtime.
It is part of a 'Back to church Sunday' drive which hopes to bring in thousands of new worshippers on September 27. It is backed by churches in Scotland and Wales, Methodist and evangelical churches, although Roman Catholic leaders have not signed up.

Last year, its organisers say, some 37,000 lapsed members were drawn back to church on the campaign Sunday.

The Church of England (COE), which before the American Revolution demanded their priests pledge allegiance to the crown, was the reason for the First Amendment stating that Congress shall not establish a national religion ergo a national church. After the revolution, the Church of England was banned in America and replaced by the Episcopal Church (TEC).

(note, I was reared in the Episcopal Church, was an altar boy and loved the Church, but left when the church replaced religion with a secular progressive philosophy)

The "separation of church and state' phrase is not in the Bill of Rights or any other official document. The phrase, based on the philosophy of John Locke is in a letter to the Danbury Baptists authored by Thomas Jefferson.

I think a good visual showing the dichotomy or bi-polar sense of the church is Coventry Cathedral in England. The old cathedral of St Michael was destroyed by Nazi bombs during WWII and beginning in the 1950's the COE began designing an addition to the ruins for a new cathedral. The results are disastrous, a timelous example of historic FUGLYness and a shrine to COE's inability to reflect their mission of unity.

Good Scotch Can't Help Bad Architecture

Frank FUGLY Gehry

Anyone who has dealt with those with debilitating brain disease such as Alzheimer’s knows that disorientation is a major problem in their daily lives. Doors not open, furniture rearranged and other changes can make their lives a living hell.

To deal specifically with those patients the Cleveland Clinic and starchitect Frank Gehry are giving us this joke.

Cleveland Clinic And The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute Partner On New Clinical Institute In Las Vegas
“The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute and Cleveland Clinic create a powerhouse in the world of neurological medicine,” said Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman. “Together, they have what it takes to perform this groundbreaking work that is significant to our state, our city and most importantly, those who suffer with debilitating brain diseases. Without our downtown redevelopment efforts, none of this would be possible. We are thrilled and honored to welcome Cleveland Clinic to Las Vegas and Union Park.”

Doing Dali is not architecture. It is bad imitation lacking any context. This building go beyond that.

It insults and ridicules those suffering.

When Fugly Was Fun

Mammy’s Cupboard - Natchez, MS

FUGLY

Wow, this is so wrong.

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English Heritage has included the centre in Birmingham among the 30 best schemes in its book Shared Interest.

The £500m Bullring, which was completed in 2003, is described as being part of Birmingham's "famous architectural rebirth" in the past two decades.

English Heritage said the Selfridges building was "brashly exciting" and St Martin's Church was better presented.

The translation for the above statement is, "This hideous building is a blight on any neighborhood, especially this neighborhood, but we at English Heritage, being on the public dole, can do what we damned well please when we destroy your neighborhood with your money and our total lack of taste, history and remorse. Tata, you bloody wankers."

FUGLY

Modern architecture generally is made by and for the (st)architects whose vision seldom envisions real people interacting with the structures except for the interiors and even then that interaction is questionable.

The structures are for nesting rats on a ship that won't sink. .

FUGLY

No, this is not in Russia or Dubai. It is in Whitestone, NY and there is no excuse for this. Really.

Saving New Orleans By Destroying It

via Veritas et Venustas



Brad Pitt is trying to help. Help is building houses in the 9th Ward in New Orleans where if there is a major storm, hurricane or flood again, all the house will be destroyed again, but Pitt is trying to help. I wish he'd stop. I think a whole lotta people in New Orleans feel the same way, but some people have no choice but to go with Pitt because the city government is run by morons totally incapable of policing Mardi Gras let alone a city.

Forcing starchitects, as John Massendale calls them, on people is just wrong and egotistical. How do you save a neighborhood by making it what it never was? How do you save a neighborhood by building stupid, ugly little houses that will never be homes?

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