Since I'm married to an architect, I always take note of articles about great and awful architecture. Recently, Buildworld's website did a story about the ugliest buildings in the U.S. and the U.K. - This is part one of 2 blogs and features the U.S. Ugly Building Winners!
Big Box Buildings Among America's Ugliest
Over one-third of tweets about the J. Edgar Hoover Building are negative in sentiment. And yes, it’s not pretty — but there’s a certain Minecraft-y charm about the blocky brutalist monolith. The FBI HQ was fashionable, practical and even a little utopian when it was designed in the 1960s (an open courtyard for agents to eat lunch, files safely archived deep in the core of the building). But today, its very bulk evokes the worst of 20th-century politics and the 21st-century surveillance state.
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