And this thing is in a NICE neighborhood

You have to wonder, you really do.  So we are in a recession now and have been for YEARS. In that time you have seen thousands of really good architects lose their jobs and beg for work.  We used to work for practically nothing but since the recession happened we have been known to work for free - even if we have years of experience and are licensed and are assuming liability and on and on and on... All of this just makes me wonder - why in a BUYERS market when there are MYRIADS of great architects working for next to nothing do homeowners still choose to hire home designers that are this bad! Hire an Architect folks!  I cannot describe to you how much this "home" insults my senses.  It is REALLY BAD!!! The sad thing is the colors are okay colors just not placed in the way they placed them and seriously people what is the deal with this ski chalet window treatment?   and what the F is this stupid little chimney tower with windows ... i get it you were trying to fix your AWFUL elevation so you stuck a hat on it... did you not realize that the problems were much more fundamental... you would think there would be better NEW construction in a recession - its cheap to hire Architects and its cheap to get things built - there is just no accounting for taste i guess -I blame the client on this one too - you know they requested half of this shit from some bad grocery stand magazine that offered crap advice for $3.99- WHO BUILT THIS SHIT!!!!

Phantom of Doom

This is AWESOME... They tried to build this shit but it didn't work.  This is a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea apparently it was never finished and has sat there as an eyesore since the 80's. I LOVE THIS!!!

"In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished."

You have to read the whole story that was in esquire here.  The best part about this building are all these renderings I found online, people love this building obviously ha ha ha ha!  Who TRIES to Build this SHIT!

This video is even better:



As Esquire so elegantly puts it: "The Demolition S How video by the Italian architects Extraneo might not be as conceptual as Ryugyong.org, but this piece of architectural porn sure is fun to watch. The video (which you can watch above) was mounted as part of the exhibition Fiction Pyongyang, curated in part by Stefano Boeri, who also collected 120 speculative designs for the hotel in the June 2006 domus magazine. The designs, he says, "have forced it to reveal its icy nature, its irresistible fascination as a fragile alien meteorite." The worst building in the world is also, we now know, "the only built piece of science fiction in the contemporary world." And it's true. Demolition S How is all Blade Runner-style flying ads and soaring concrete, and the video reminds us that the worst building in the world is the closest humans have come to building a Death Star."