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is this the ugliest building I've seen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=yiVIi_nZ0Ts

We've had two or more threads come up in the last year or so about Frank Gehry buildings, and you're complaining about this? It's not the purdiest structure I have ever laid eyes upon, but its nowhere near the ugliest either

Ugh. The braces make it look like the building's still under construction. Still no Penn Station.

I saw those beams and thought of the struts in KSP and how rickety and wobbly they are.

It doesn't add to the image of the structure and in a sense makes it appear less structurally sound. Hell the joints look tacked on.

phred wrote:We've had two or more threads come up in the last year or so about Frank Gehry buildings, and you're complaining about this? It's not the purdiest structure I have ever laid eyes upon, but its nowhere near the ugliest either

Gehry's builds are art, sometimes bad art. this one is just disjointed and a bit crap.

The "expose every joint and don't try too hard to fit the braces into some sort of smooth monolithic architectural finish" functionalist aesthetic isn't for everyone or everywhere. This isn't even that bad of an example of it, either in isolation or context, though it doesn't compare to Renzo Piano's New York Times headquarters building for elegance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LolYu3LP4Ec

I like it. Looks like a super villains apartment building.