Ugliest/worst building in Leeds

jf · Post by jf » Tue 19 Feb, 2008 1:47 pm

I quite like the evening post building. It's a bit scruffy, and the setting isn't very good, but the shape itself is interesting. The old clock looked better, from memory.I'd put it way above a lot of the mediocre rubbish we have such as crown point retail centre (and similar retail sheds) or the exceptionally tedious 3-storey blocks of flats that are squeezed on to any spare bit of land in the suburbs (often at the expense of ornate pubs, and usually out of scale and context with any existing development). Anything in the city centre is immeasurably better.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 23 Feb, 2008 4:59 pm

buffaloskinner wrote: Its just plain UGLY, and my granddaughter thinks so as well GOING UP^

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 24 Feb, 2008 7:19 pm

some wonderful thatched cottages,and other nice houses were swept away to build the 'BEAUTIFUL' crossgates arndale lump.

FoxyLady · Post by **FoxyLady** » Thu 06 Mar, 2008 11:14 pm

lister wrote: I nominate....1 Mill Street, Leeds, LS9 8NANo idea what the planners were thinking with this beauty! I was going to agree that Bramley Shopping Centre was the worst until I saw this monstrosity, it's bloody hideous!!

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 06 Mar, 2008 11:32 pm

wiggy wrote: some wonderful thatched cottages,and other nice houses were swept away to build the 'BEAUTIFUL' crossgates arndale lump. Most of the buildings in that area had been declared 'insanitary' though wiggy, but I do remember walking down Station Road past them, the surgery of the infamous dentist was in one of them and always seemed to have red roses growing round the doorway.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 9:02 am

lister wrote: I nominate....1 Mill Street, Leeds, LS9 8NANo idea what the planners were thinking with this beauty! Is that it then, just finished like that?

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 9:16 am

Burtons at the top of briggate looks like a world war 2 pillbox ugly in itself and out of context with its surroundingslawnswood school looks like a nuclear power stationany fe college you care to namethe north stand at headingley-ugly and not fit for purposeShaftsbury house Beestonboar lane from BHS as you walk underneath that overhang past greggs, the cornish pasty shop and the birdcage is depressing and smells

Mork of Ork · Post by **Mork of Ork** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 11:50 am

I like the Burton's building, the design really appeals to me for some reason.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 12:13 pm

Mork of Ork wrote: I like the Kremlin too, reminds me of something out of a 40's sci fi film.I agree about Bramley Shopping centre especially as they knocked down all the old shops etc on Bramley Town Street and replaced them with that thing! I like the Kremlin as wellI always expect there to be a flash of lightning emanation from that thing on top.

Si · Post by Si » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 1:06 pm

fevlad wrote: Mork of Ork wrote: I like the Kremlin too, reminds me of something out of a 40's sci fi film.I agree about Bramley Shopping centre especially as they knocked down all the old shops etc on Bramley Town Street and replaced them with that thing! I like the Kremlin as wellI always expect there to be a flash of lightning emanation from that thing on top. ...or Flash Gordon's space ship about to dock. (I remember that even though it was in space, the smoke from the engine went up, and the sparks down!)