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What is the ugliest building in Northern Ireland?

  • October 2, 2024



What is the ugliest building in Northern Ireland?

by rogerrabbit4

38 comments

  1. How dare they. The oul fish finger is an icon, and a beautiful building inside and out.

  3. I love the city hospital, probably my favourite non-historic building in belfast. To me it looks like something straight out of starwars, like it should be on tracks slowly crawling up sandy row. What’s your problem with it? I would definitely rank the intensely bland brick-faced and glass cubes going up everywhere way way worse than it.

  5. If this was in Berlin/Prague/Amsterdam it would be heralded as an iconic piece of brutalist architecture

  6. Thr old ulster bank building in Derry. Used to be a dark block until they painted it. Still looks like a block

  7. Belfast city hospital…..the good old ‘yellow borg cube ‘ looks like it belongs in space too. !

  8. It was voted one of the ugliest buildings in the U.K. many years ago but it’s grown on most people now. It’s just there

  9. I think it looks class. Makes you think there’s a big red button somewhere inside that will make it sprout legs and go on a rampage through the city shooting death rays out the windows

  12. I’d vote for UU Coleraine if that horrible block is still up. I think it actually won an ugliest building vote somewhere before.

  16. Does anyone else remember years ago when Charles supposedly said the hospital was ‘hideous’ so for a time, people called it ‘The Camilla’?

  17. Ironically the School of Architecture in QUB. My 5 year old has built more aesthetically pleasing stuff with lego. 

  21. I remember on my way to my office job, travelling past this building thinking to myself, ‘wow what an interesting structure’.

    But suddenly, I would be compelled to stop exactly where I stood, my eyes would then turn obsidian black, and would then find myself astral projecting to a realm which felt like 10,000 light years away. Abstract shapes constructed by stars whizzing by me – An aggressive daydream.

    I returned to consciousness in an instant, what I thought was only mere seconds was in fact hours, maybe even days. I reluctantly checked my watch to find that it was 2:03am. With a pounding headache I tried to think about what just happened, but I couldn’t. The only words that remained in my head was..

    ₮ⱧɆ ₵Ʉ฿Ɇ.

  24. Was officially opened by Prince Charles back in the day. He said it was the ugliest thing he’d ever seen, until he met Camilla that was

  25. It’s always given me “blade runner” vibes, if you saw that building amongst the buildings in the blade runner universe you wouldn’t look twice.

  26. As a kid it always reminded me of one of those enemies that go up in a Mario game and Mario has to get past them without them going down and crushing him

  28. I’d say any of the student/office/appartment blocks built in the last 5/10 years.

    All bear the same, inherent ugliness that add nothing and only take away from the city’s architectural character.

  31. Depends how you look at it .
    For a lot of people it’s the most beautiful building because of what it does and it is striking looking

  35. My mother told me how they were building the foundations for it when she was attending the Jubilee Maternity Clinic when she was pregnant with me (1966). It was opened in 1986 when I was in first year at Uni. Seriously… it took 13 years to build the Trans Siberian and 10 years to build the Panama Canal.

  37. Would be a toss up between Antrim or Ballymena police station. So unbelievably ugly it had to be done on purpose, designed to drain any semblance of hope you had left in your soul.

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