Wellington Parliament Building: 111 Emergency Coming together to point out the ugly. UGLY IS IN. There’s the ugliest dog , the worst pizza , the ugliest river … Finding the worst of something is like winning a popularity contest. It gives you a story to tell, makes people laugh, crowns you undisputed leader in the game of one-up-manship. Over at Virtual Tourist , they’ve got a list of editors’ and readers’ ugliest buildings for the year 2009 , with the Morris A. Mechanic Theater in Baltimore, the Zizkov TV Building in Prague, and the Parliament Building in Wellington coming in first, second, and third place, respectively. Flickr Loves Ugly Buildings Too There are ugly architecture hunters, and they form groups. Flickr has dozens, including this photo pool by indie Brooklyn-based live-on-the-cheap online magazine Brokelyn , plus other groups called bad architecture , ugly architecture , and Eyesore . But what makes a building ugly? Asymmetry?

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