Building products and hardware solutions company Buildworld has published its new list of “The Top 10 Eyesore Buildings in the World” as of 2023. To gauge public opinion, it uses a sentiment analysis tool called HuggingFace which analyses the percentage of tweets that were negative towards landmark buildings around the world.

With 42.07% of tweets registering as negative, The Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh was found to be the ugliest building in the world according to Twitter users. The post-modern campus is described as an “indecipherable jumble of forms” with frequent maintenance issues blamed on its architecture and no satisfying viewing angles. J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters for the FBI, comes in a close second. In 1965, it was the most expensive government building ever in the U.S. Sentiment around its controversial design, featuring an open-air, trapezoidal courtyard and bronze-tinted windows set in a concrete frame, has gradually soured over the years.

Other highlights include Ryugyong Hotel, otherwise known as the “Hotel of Doom” located in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang,” and the fabric-roofed Denver International Airport which has been subject to a number of conspiracy theories over the years pointing to the Freemasons and Illuminati due in part to its gargoyle artworks, dedications stones containing time capsules for “the people of Colorado in 2094,” and rumors of underground bunkers.

Take a look at the full top 10 list below. More details can be found on the Buildworld website.

1. Scottish Parliament Building – Edinburgh, Scotland

2. J. Edgar Hoover Building – Washington D.C., USA
3. Newport Station – Newport, Wales
4. Boston City Hall – Boston, USA
5. Preston Train Station – Preston, England
6. Verizon Building – New York, USA
7. Ryugyong Hotel – Pyongyang, North Korea
8. Watergate Complex – Washington D.C., USA
9. The Denver International Airport – Colorado, USA
10. Trump Tower – Las Vegas, USA

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10 Ugliest Buildings in the World

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• Start dateNov 20, 2009
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Joined Apr 28, 2004 Messages 18,360 Reaction score 16

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  Originally Posted by LabelKing

I love how there's some sort of fairground behind it and that maglev train goes in--total Disney fare.

It's not maglev, it's a rubber wheeled monorail built for the '62 World's Fair (As previously mentioned). Which is even classier.

The South end of the monorail was pinched together to make room for a shopping mall, so that there's only room for one train at a time.

See?!?

Joined May 29, 2006 Messages 3,133 Reaction score 50

• 62

  Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

But what he got was THIS:

Wow...that is terrible.

Joined Sep 24, 2008 Messages 185 Reaction score 0

• 63

That really is a terrible building.

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Joined Jan 14, 2005 Messages 13,306 Reaction score 237

• 67

  Originally Posted by Pennglock

Could your ex-wife and my fiance in fact be the same person?

Are you attracted to pathological liars who also have an uncanny ability to spend 187% of available funds?

Joined Apr 28, 2004 Messages 18,360 Reaction score 16

• 68

  Originally Posted by Dakota rube

Are you attracted to pathological liars who also have an uncanny ability to spend 187% of available funds?

This might be used against you in a court of law as evidence of premeditation, were anything to happen to her. Just so you know.

Joined Jan 14, 2005 Messages 13,306 Reaction score 237

• 69

Nothing will ever happen to her. Like my mother always said, "God takes care of good people and idiots."

Besides, she's off damaging someone else's finances now. And I couldn't be any happier about it.

Joined Nov 29, 2006 Messages 9,220 Reaction score 625

• 70

  Originally Posted by tiecollector

+1. I've really started to appreciate the brutalist government and university buildings I see. I'd love a brutalist home.

Guilford County's district court and jail buildings leave me feeling sufficiently Brutalized.

Joined Jul 16, 2006 Messages 3,373 Reaction score 8

• 71

  Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Here's the aforementioned eyesore that is E.M.P.: ]

I forgot about how ugly that building is, just terrible.

Joined Sep 23, 2006 Messages 1,320 Reaction score 2

• 73

  Originally Posted by PinkPantser

in ugliness nothing will ever top Venturi's Mother's house for me.

In his defense, I don't think Venturi set out to make something 'pretty'.

Yeah, I always wondered if his mother would have preferred just a drawing of the house that she could put on her fridge.