Green's Babka

Seattle and North Korea are only two destinations that welcome to the Earth's most inappropriate architectural monstrosities.

Different people have different criteria for what makes a structure unattractive. "The ugliest buildings are anonymous," says Christopher Bonanos, who edits the architecture critic at New York magazine. "Even if a building experimental large scale is not everything to offer at least the architect is to try something. A building is a warehouse of drilling in the middle of New Jersey. "

Harold Washington Library
Chicago

If buildings came with notes, the latter, the name of a beloved former mayor deserved better, would have a value of pages of citations. Neoclassical collided with a glass roof references Mannerist and steel, throw in some red brick, granite and aluminum and a bad sense of scale and you have the architecture class too much for one day.

The Ugly Truth:
Opened in 1991 and designed by the firm of Hammond Beeby and Babka, Chicago Public Library has an application jumble of motives and styles that are "trapped in the postmodern era," said Peter Koliopoulos Circle Architects West in Scottsdale, Arizona

Ministry of the Interior Longaberger
Newark, Ohio

If you worked here, you'd be doing business in a copy of 9000 tons of wood a woven basket. Its construction stucco-on-steel has been awarded an achievement, apparently, synthetic gypsum has received an award. But it is as if, in 1997, a giant-sized Little Red Riding Hood set his seven-story obstacle on a flat section of Ohio.

The Ugly Truth:
While the company purvey handmade baskets. And the seat of dream founder Dave Longaberger was a replica of his favorite basket. But hey, employees Crate & Barrel does not schedule meetings in a sofa with 10 floors.

Ideal Palace
Hauterives, France

Cinderella dreams of excavations, it is not, but Ideal Palace does resemble a fairy tale - the kind you might have visions of after dropping acid. Gargoyles peer caves with Hindu temples and tiny motifs adorn the mosque-corrugated stone pillars.

The Ugly Truth:
In the mid-1800s, Ferdinand Cheval has stumbled on a stone, mail delivery and was seized works of inspiration, his life would be to build a stone castle. Over the next three decades, he has scored stones while covering his way back in the evening with a wheelbarrow to collect.

Portland Building
Portland, Oregon

Breaking the checklist of government building. Small windows are boring? Check. off-white masonry Humdrum? Yes. pilasters clay and glass bright blue? That too. The first three levels of the squat, the structure of municipal services 15 floors are covered in dark green tiles, adding to the bewildering blind-meets-annoying tone.

The Ugly Truth:
Michael Graves won a competition to design the building in 1982. Postmodernism was the rage in the 80s, which explains the chance-stuck on historical grounds. "Many buildings of this decade Look fake.

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