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![]() This particular edifice is the proposed new San Francisco Trans-Bay Transit Center at First and Fremont Streets. http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore.html James Howard Kunstler is a rather interesting American author/intellectual/blogger of the intelligent center-left variety. I've read a fair bit of his stuff over the years, mostly about peak oil. Anyway, one of his pet peeves in life is ugly postmodernist architecture - a subject that I share the same taste for! ![]() He posts one of these every month. I've looked back through the last couple of years and he sure does find some awesome and supremely ugly buildings. ![]()
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![]() Michael and Greendruid should recognize this one.
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![]() I think the best way to describe this is "kitsch architecture".
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![]() Indeed, I do. Arguably, that place is the trashiest place in Canada.
![]() Though, one must admit that the best view of the falls is on the Canadian side of the border. Quote:
Though, that particular piece seems almost avant-kitsch since it is so far beyond mere kitsch!
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![]() Hopefully it hasn't been mass produced.
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![]() I haven't seen Niagara Falls in a long time. I don't miss the town at all - it is a massive tourist trap. The natural beauty of the cascading river is a breath-takng sight to see though.
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![]() Do you mean 'the waterfall is very nice to look at'?
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![]() I has (or at least had) a really nice youth hostel, though. I got to Niagara at the end of a very long, solitary road trip between college and my first job. That was definitely the nicest placed I stayed along the way, not counting the one night I broke down and paid for an actual hotel room.
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![]() Most unfortunately it has.
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![]() EYESORE:The Slovak Radio House, Bratislava.
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