The Britain's Ugliest Building

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This was voted #4 ugliest building in the UK in 2001.

In case anyone doesn't know, this place is The Tricorn and it was a shopping center built in 1966 and it had flats too. But they were never full, they were always vacant. It also had a parking garage. The place was torn down in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn_Centre

Last edited by Spokane_Girl on 02 Jan 2009, 10:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I've never been a fan of modern art much less modern archetecture.

Bleh...ugly and dull IMO.

Hey, as long as its different then all these basic bla bla buildings, its creative even though not pretty.
Look at it this way, an ugly building offsets the others making them look better.

Architecture went through a horrible phase 40–50 years ago. New British homes are still banal-looking, but at least pebbledash is by and large obsolete. I'd like to nominate my old high school, a crumbling pebble dash monstrosity. There aren't any pictures of it on the internet as the school wouldn't be too keen on showing what its building looked like.

I have an interest in abandon buildings. That is how I found out about Detroit and this.

Oh hey, no wonder you talked about abandoned places, I enjoy them as well, provided their close enough for me to go explore.

***SCIENTIFIC PROOF TWOSHOTS HAS AWFUL TASTE***

Y'know, I actually kind of like Brutalism...

Hey, it looks like the University of East Anglia!

Reminds me of reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

...am I the only one that likes it? It looks interesting.

I like it too. It could use a little color, but I like it.

That is what I'd describe as "a monument to miserable Britain" (James May from British TVs Top Gear referred to a 1960s towerblock as that too, where I got that from)

60's archetecture(sp?) is the most horrendous in the whole of Britain... and living in the UK I have had to see my fair share of it, like people had no sense of design in the 60s... and liked to use tons of concrete

Pikachu, I totally agree. 60s British architecture is just awful.

Spokane Girl, do you have a link to the list you refer to?
I think I remember seeing it, and I remember Cumbernauld Town Shopping Centre was on the list somewhere.

Le Corbusier has a lot to answer for ...

We have something similar in Greensboro, NC. The City government buildings were built in the late 70s, had sort of a concrete 'bunker' look to them.

Actually, there were some pretty hideous buildings in Washington DC for a good long while.

I posted a link to the wiki article about the place in my OP.

If you were talking about if I have a link for the list of the brutalist structures, here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_br ... structures

The town center you just mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbernauld_town_centre

In Scotland there is the "Plook on a Plinth" award, which is for the "Most Dismal Town" in Scotland.

Cumbernauld's shopping centre has been a big factor in helping the town win the award a couple of times, if not more, in the last decade.