10 BUILDINGS I HATE

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Pictured: St. Colletta School by Michael Graves
Check out 9 more buildings that I hate after the break!
1. Anything by Michael Graves is generally hideous, but the St. Colletta School is among the worst. The strange primitive metal clad forms combined with hideous brickwork faking larger bricks is just... postmodernism at its worst.
2. Buildings with fake ornament. This door folds vertically, but has completely ornamental diagonal "reinforcements" to appear like barn-style swinging doors. FAKE!!!
3. Piano & Violin Building in China. Maybe this idea could work if you just pick one instrument and go a little less literal. 
4. Any building that is replicated identically across a continent, eliminating all traces of culture from the built environment (applies to #2 as well).
5. Harold Washington Library in  Chicago. A beast of a building with awkward proportions and hideous massive copper ornamentation.
6. All the condominuims at Lakeshore East Chicago, except Aqua tower. In fact, the developer was persuaded to hire Studio Gang to build Aqua to make up for the other architectural atrocities in this massive, generic '90's development. Truly a shameful part of downtown Chicago architecture.
7. Ping pong building in China. Again, the fine line between literal and sculptural is ugly.
8. Galvin Library & Hermann Hall at IIT. Two faux-Miesian buildings on the famous Mies van der Rohe campus in Chicago, with completely ornamental roof girders poorly mimicking Mies' nearby masterpiece, Crown Hall. When these projects were awarded to SOM in the late 50's, Mies was so upset that he took his personal collection of books from the library and left the campus never to return!
9. Compare this techno-postmodernist catastrophe to the beautiful Nakagin Capsule Tower. Japanese architecture at its worst and best.
10. Hotel Lisboa Macau. The tower I don't mind TOO much, but combined with the golden/technicolor facade, a massive egg, and frivolous decoration, this hotel is an example of flash without class.

Have a hideous building in mind that I missed? Let me know in the comments!