(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license)
Robin Hoods Gardens
– This housing complex in London was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in 1972 and demolished in 2013 after a fierce fight to preserve the building by the English Heritage and Design Council Cabe failed. It was long regarded as ugly. Plans to replace the site include a school and mosque.
(Firing up the quattro….– flickr/creative commons license)
Manchester Arndale Tower
– Hugh Wilson and Lewis Womersley designed this shopping centre development. The tower was completed in 1979. It was immediately received with derision and is now called one of the ugliest buildings in Europe.
(Randomly London– flickr/creative commons license)
Blackhorse Road Station
– This tube station in London opened in 1968 at a historic railway. Cost cuts made it flat and bland, with bathroom tiles for walls, and causes resentment from locals.
(ell brown– flickr/creative commons license)
Grosvenor Street West
– This brick building is next to the Old Union Mill on Sheepcote Street in Birmingham.
(Ewan-M– flickr/creative commons license)
Elmers End Station
– This Beckenham station serves rail and tram lines.
(LHOON– flickr/creative commons license)
Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park
– Rodney Gordon designed this Brutalist parking garage in Gateshead, England, built in 1967. A concrete rooftop restaurant floated above the massive building. It was demolished in 2010. Long considered an eyesore.
(Gene Hunt– flickr/creative commons license)
Manchester Business School
– Part of a city centre that has a reputation as ugly.
(comedy_nose– flickr/creative commons license)
Royal Liverpool Hospital
– Holford Associates designed this Hospital in Liverpool, opened in 1978. It is huge and known as ugly. A replacement is due for completion in 2017.
(seier+seier– flickr/creative commons license)
Pimlico Academy
– John Bancroft designed this school on Lupus Street in Westminster London, completed in 1970. Complaints were not only about the appearance, but also of uncomfortable extreme temperatures, excessive amount of entrances, and no disabled access.
(Alan Stanton– flickr/creative commons license)
Mems on Moorefield Road
– This area of Moorefield Road in London is near Bruce Grove Railway Station.
