Holy Big Box Batman!

I am agnostic. Which means I believe there is  "God" out there I just don't believe in organized Religion.  When you go to Europe though, the Cathedrals are so beautiful and inspiring you can't help but believe, that is how they were designed to inspire awe, to draw your eye up and make you feel something inside. This is just sad.  I am not one to mess with people's religions, so please don't get mad I am only speaking about the building - GHHEHEEEEEZZZZ It's not like parishioners are approaching on donkeys anymore granted, they are driving 75 on a freeway, but come on! Can't the building be inspirational AT ALL? While European cathedrals inspire holiness this just makes me think of Walmart the big box religion of America. And like Walmart this building just promotes the ideal that bigger is better - I would argue for quality over quantity doesn't a house of God deserve that at least.  Who Builds This Shit?

World Expo USA Pavilion? So Sad...

This is a rendering of the USA Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo.  This was submitted to us from a concerned reader.  They were concerned for the following reasons:
1. This USA Pavilion was designed by a Canadian Architect.  We love our Canadian neighbors but this is the USA pavilion - shouldn't it be designed by a USA architect?
2. Other country pavilions are so much cooler! Expo's should be a place where the best of the best is shown... such a missed opportunity.  Check it out!

I dont know what I am looking at, but these two structures are FREAKING COOL! Why is the USA Pavilion at the top of the page so LAME! Obviously, this is not a case of architects having clients that lacked vision - the USA Pavilion is a case of an American developer who somehow got the contract that only had a vision of cash! That's the only excuse I can think of...

Who builds this shit!

Who Built This SHITTER?

Nothing says welcome like entering through a GIANT SHITTER! As one of our readers so elegantly put it: "Some people call it the toilet seat building, some people call it a stargate.  Whatever it is, it makes me cringe everytime I see it."  Is it a billboard or is it a duck - Venturi would ask -  Maybe it is the the Kimberly-Clark headquarters and it is really a duck.  Though we have to explore the Stargate alien angle as well.  Maybe aliens are following suit from Men in Black and hiding their spaceships in the last place we would look, right under our noses.  In that case maybe this building will just disappear one day! Who Built This Shitter?