[Closed] Worst building in UK

[i] featuring the then novel "Velux" windows in asymmetric roofs, as part of cleverly designed houses that give a disproportionate amount of floor space downstairs for two / three bedroom houses (the ground floors are larger than the first). [/i]

Sounds like a road near me.
Lovely looking houses - we viewed one to buy a few years back... so impractical inside! Tiny bedrooms and minute living room with a huge chimney breast in the middle. We bought a square box instead.

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There are many large Art Deco flats complexes.
Not as large as modern estates like thamesmead and probably not social housing .

There used to be an industrial estate near where I used to live where most of the buildings were Art Deco.
And there is the Hoover building that is now a tescos .

I can't think of any Art Deco housing estates (other than maybe frinton park).

There's one in Madrid* - Colonia de la Prensa. It's falling down, though 🙁

*I realise the thread is about the UK!

Anyone up for a game of 'Rate my house'?! Could get messy....

Don't know about the worst in Britain, but I work in the worst in Edinburgh, as in 'most dangerous'.

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Beautiful building sadly neglected and [url= http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/education/worst-school-building-shut-over-safety-fears-1-3529417 ]now most likely doomed[/url].

There's a lot of concrete monstrosities, but if I was given just one building that I could launch an air strike against, then it'd be this crass, garish monstrosity.Christ! It'd look overly vulgar in Essex, never mind Trafford Park! Its utterly hideous! Inside and out! In all its 80's-excess, lets-celebrate-consumerism horror....

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That looks like it was air dropped from vegas!

That makes me feel a little unwell. Similar to the redevelopments in Skopje: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28951171

Glad you guys have the money to buy houses with interesting architecture.

I live in a Victorian terrace house - only £100k now, but more interesting architecture than 95% of all the houses built nowadays.

your all wrong 😉

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I am looking to move house soon and I am dismayed about the newer houses you can buy. The "cookie cutter" houses from the 80/90/00/10's are just so depressing, using bits of features pinched from other eras.

What will people think of as the "90's style" in a few decades. Everyone knows what a Georgian/Victorian/Art Deco/Brutalist/1940's/60's house looks like, but you can't tell an 80's semi apart from a 2010's one now.

We could have had funky new designs making new areas of towns into distinct styles, like periods of building in the past did. With my Victorian terrace you can look back and see the reason why they were built - there's history there even though the houses are a bit compromised for modern living in some ways - and appreciate them for what they are. What are going to be the excuses for building the houses we do now?

I want a cosy house with lots of light, that is warm and dry and makes me feel at home. Modern materials can be cheap and energy efficient but we are still stuck with crappy houses using outdated materials built badly, squeezing too many onto plots of land to ensure maximum profit, by people who couldn't give a crap about what they are building as long as their bank balance is increased.

This country has a rich history of great architecture and people think it will be ruined by "modern" architecture - IT WON'T if you let people get on with it and promote new ideas. The only thing that will happen in the future is that people will discuss the merits of each period of housebuilding with the same fervour we have discussed Brutalism here - some good points, some bad, but improving all the time.

As it stands, all people will be saying about the houses of the last 30 years is that "yeah, from the 90's they couldn't be bothered anymore and they are all crap". So eventually everyone will agree but for the worst reasons.

Ah! An architecture thread. Allow me to stand in for Fredelfinsafetydibnah, then. Without the emoticon-littered mockney.

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(Attach own rant about Tory scumbag privately-built friends of etc. here).

Trafford Centre is spot on. It's a temple to consumerism. What should it look like?

It's the place and all it stands for that is ugly, not the building itself.

My house is the same design as my friends 100 miles away but both are 65 years old.

There is an exact replica of the 1930s Shefield semi I used to live in a museum in York. Was very spooky when I saw it.

I think the reason for the current trend for bland copies of period houses is an attempt to stop them looking dated very quickly.

A road of 60s or 70s houses with their dull bricks, wood panneling and weird chimnies may be a more thought through design but they look much more dated than a similar road of houses from the 30s.

The developers are aiming at timeless rather than "period" but missed the mark and either ended at dull or dated.

Whether they have suceeded is a matter of opinion but I think it's clear that they are doing much better now than in the 90s and 00s. There is at least some more variety in the way they have tried to achive timeless.

Come on STW, you know this is the one. 😉

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Personally I think pretty much everything that came from the 90s postmodern movement is aesthetically criminal. What a confused, dishonest and ultimately empty period in design history that was.

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Ah, No1 Poultry. I recall the Coq d'Argent being quite pleasant of a summer evening.

Agree it's always tried too hard against the brutish (not Brutalist) style of the Bank.

Trafford Centre is spot on. It's a temple to consumerism. What should it look like?

On the other hand here's one of the best modern buildings in Manchester
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Trafford Centre is spot on. It's a temple to consumerism. What should it look like?

The container port that was there before was more aesthetically pleasing. But I take your point. My hatred for the awful, gaudy architecture is compounded by my loathing for everything it represents

slowoldman - good call. I love that building!