An architectural website has named MIT's Simmons Hall the ugliest building in the U.S.
Architectural Uprising, a so-called "people's movement against the continued uglification of our cities," recently named Simmons Hall in Cambridge the winner of its inaugural "Aesthetic Atrocity Award," which it described as "an annual dishonor given to the ugliest new building in the United States."
Strip malls and fast food chains are an architectural abomination and disgrace.
It takes great skill in architecture to “surpass” the ugliness of strip malls 🫠
I just don’t get it. American architecture is extremely demoralizing.
There are beautiful homes, and they are an exception. Modern zoning, and requirements result in cardboard pizza box homes.
These places naturally draw people, as they are objectively beautiful, and such homes cannot be built today in vast parts of the country.
"Modern commercial squalor" is my favorite descriptor of this phenomenon.
Coined by James Howard Kunstler.
