Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed some of the most famous and visually compelling buildings in the United States and the world, including Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Building designers will often try to emulate Wright’s work when drafting plans for a new structure, hoping to create a building that will one day be considered classical architecture.
Unfortunately, not all buildings will be visually appealing upon completion. Sometimes some of the most important commissioned works end up being considered a disaster by architectural critics upon completion. And some of them are so bad that they are on the list of the ugliest buildings in the world.
UK building supply company build world did some research on buildings around the world that are often said to be ugly and tracked down all the design-themed tweets they could find on the buildings on Twitter. Buildworld then used a sentiment analysis tool called HuggingFace to analyze the percentage of tweets that were negative about each building’s design and came up with a list, according to its website.
The ugliest buildings in the world, but outside the US, include the #1 ugliest building, the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, Scotland. Others on the list included Newport Station, Newport Wales; Preston Railway Station, Preston, England; and Ryugyong Hotel, Phyongyang, North Korea. The remaining six ugliest buildings are in the US.
Here is a very unflattering list
The second ugliest building in the world is also the #1 ugliest building in the US: the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC. The second ugliest building in the US is the fourth ugliest building in the world: Boston City Hall in Boston.
The sixth ugliest building in the world is the third ugliest building in the US: the Verizon Building in New York City. The fourth ugliest building in the US is the eighth ugliest in the world: the Watergate complex in Washington, DC Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein could be proud of that.
The ninth ugliest building in the world is also the fifth ugliest in the US: Denver International Airport. The list of the ugliest remaining buildings in the US includes No. 7, US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis; No. 8, Thompson Center in Chicago; No. 9, Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas; and at No. 10, the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla.
Donald Trump has a new honor
Former President Donald Trump has been a well-known real estate mogul from before his presidency, throughout his presidency, and after his presidency to the present day. His real estate holdings during his presidency were controversial, as critics of him claim that Trump violated the emoluments clause of the US Constitution by allegedly profiting from his commercial holdings while he was president.
Trump has an extensive list of real estate holdings, including office, residential and hotel buildings, as well as golf courses in the US and around the world. Trump and the Trump Organization own some of the more than three dozen properties associated with the former president, but most are affiliated under licensing agreements.
One of Trump’s properties, the gold-plated Trump International Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, has the dubious honor of ranking as the 10th-ugliest building in the world and the 6th-ugliest building in the US. The hotel does not include a casino, but you may be able to find some rooms at prices lower than many of the hotel casinos on the Strip.
