The first building in that last post is the Peter B Lewis building in Cleveland, Ohio. The building wasn’t designed with Cleveland snow in mind, so chunks of snow large enough to seriously hurt someone regularly fell off the roof and onto the sidewalk. Those nice looking flower beds that look like they’re filled with grass were added to keep people from walking under the danger zone.
what's the tour montarvaprpawrqr or whatever french shit that word is?
ok im gonna infodump about fucked up buildings for a second so this is probably gonna be long
tour montparnasse in paris is my least favourite building in the entire world and i am slightly obsessed with it just bc of how much it sucks. its an office building and if you saw it from up close you might think ok this is a building. like its a little bland but theres nothing special about it
but then you zoom out a little
wow!!! what the fuck. that is so ugly. it literally looks like someone jammed a tv remote into the earth and i hate it so much. also this is paris so this monstrosity is within BLOCKS of the eiffel tower and just completely destroys the view. its so evil that there is now an 8 storey building limit in the area to prevent anything this criminal from happening again
some other shitty buildings i like include marina city chicago aka the corn cob buildings, which were designed with the idea in mind of a building with no right angles since ‘right angles do not appear in nature’
and rainier tower in seattle, which honestly just makes me anxious
but my FAVOURITE shitty building is part of the sydney university of technology (uts) campus
not just because it looks like someone made a building out of wet cardboard, but because the original design sketch is a work of art and it makes me cry laughing every time i look at it
I’m just saying that my queer studies professor talks about Michel Foucault’s sex life with a certainty and sincerity that baffles me. Like I can’t imagine speaking about someone else’s sex life and its impact on their work with that kind of conviction unless I, personally, had fucked them while they were in the midst of writing The Birth of the Prison