Sheffields ugly buildings

[AndrewC 310]

Oh, the Diamond.

 

I'm fairly indifferent. I don't hate it, but I don't consider it to be anything like one of my favourite newer buildings in Sheffield. I do think a lot of people are deliberately hating it because of the whole Jessops thing.

 

Got to agree with Easter Sundae, mind. You can't claim that it's boring or unadventurous.

[Vrsaljko 204]

Yep, hate the Moorfoot Building. Seems to divide opinion though.

 

I actually quite like it, but that's probably because I worked in it for three years. The corridors snake around so much in there that I often used to get lost!

[BHRemovals 10]

Barcelona madrid etc would never have given permission for our new buildings like st pauls place to have been built

[JFKvsNixon 11]

Barcelona madrid etc would never have given permission for our new buildings like st pauls place to have been built

 

You need to think again. If this took me a minute to find, imagine what other monstrosities lay in just those two cities?

 

Madrid:

http://www.wandererguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Torres-de-Colon.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02159/mirador_2159744k.jpg

 

I actually like the second Madrid one, but many people won't.

 

Barcelona:

http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/29/walden_7.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iYZqVHwPc3I/TqPzPCpbGaI/AAAAAAAAAKM/EXai4sjvGwA/s1600/Cubics+-+Eduardo+Moura.jpeg

[six45ive 10]

I see a lot of confusion on this thread about what's ugly and what isn't. Will a building grow on me? (whatever that means).

This video may be of help to some people. Hopefully it will clarify what conditions are objectively necessary for creating a more aesthetically pleasing built environment.

[smartya 10]

You need to think again. If this took me a minute to find, imagine what other monstrosities lay in just those two cities?

 

Madrid:

http://www.wandererguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Torres-de-Colon.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02159/mirador_2159744k.jpg

 

I actually like the second Madrid one, but many people won't.

 

Barcelona:

http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/29/walden_7.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iYZqVHwPc3I/TqPzPCpbGaI/AAAAAAAAAKM/EXai4sjvGwA/s1600/Cubics+-+Eduardo+Moura.jpeg

If this is the worst of these great cities, I would gladly walk bare footed over broken glass to live there.

[Guest]

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http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02159/mirador_2159744k.jpg. ...

Oooh, that one's particularly charming. I believe the university has something like that in mind for the old Henderson's building.

[JFKvsNixon 11]

If this is the worst of these great cities, I would gladly walk bare footed over broken glass to live there.

 

I never said it was the worst, I said that if it took me a minute to find these just image what other monstrosities might be out there.

 

I find this one to be particularly awful:http://www.wandererguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Torres-de-Colon.jpg

 

I actually really like this one, the more I look at it:http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02159/mirador_2159744k.jpg

[horribleblob 213]

...Barcelona: http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/29/walden_7.jpg...

 

Oddly enough, I think that, had Antoni Gaudi been alive today, it's possible he would have given this the thumbs-up.

[samssong 10]

The diamond building which looks like a giant egg that has been laid at the side of the old Jessops building at Brookhill has been nominated as one of the most ugly Architectural disasters in England.

So Sheffield could have another string to its bow the ugliest building in our Country.

[perplexed 10]

I actually quite like it. I have to say, that if people think that's one of the ugliest buildings in the UK, they don't get out much!

[Eater Sundae 12]

I actually quite like it. I have to say, that if people think that's one of the ugliest buildings in the UK, they don't get out much!

 

There are uglier buildings in Sheffield.