Taken 10 Jul 22 at approx 04:00pm with Mini 2 (no filter). Slight colour grade to enhance image.
TOAL in adjacent the Hilton Inn carpark.
One Smithfield, Stoke on Trent was a contender for the Carbuncle Building Cup 2016 — The new council offices in Stoke-on-Trent that was designed by RHWL Architects had offended ‘Design Building’ readers, who used words like “nasty” and “awful” to describe it. ‘Stokies’ were promised a “dynamic new city centre business and leisure destination designed for the people and the modern occupier”, and what they ended up with was a miserable looking box cladded in a cheap harlequin costume! Does remind me of the 80s band Marillion and the game Connect 4; both which I like but not when applied to architecture. Thought this might divide opinion as my marmite entry for the ugly buildings competition.
In 2004 a fire destroyed the museum and the tower. The council decided to rebuild around the surviving stairs and porch. This is what their architects came up with.
In 2010, a year after reopening, the Burns Monument Centre was one of six buildings shortlisted for the Carbuncle Cup, an architectural award given to the ugliest building in the UK completed in the past 12 months. The person who nominated it described it as a “forced, clumpy monstrosity with pointlessly random rooves”.
As well as a genealogy centre and associated archives, there’s a Registrar’s office and wedding suite inside. People actually get married here!
Given the ugliness, I’m not sure folk will be flocking here with their drones… but it’s now on DroneScene anyway.
Mark Kelly has a house in France in a small village called Herpes (snigger) i worked on the removal of the roof of the barn that was attached to the house which used to be the biggest tobacco drying barn in France, we converted the barn into a walled garden.
Mark came out while we were there, what a top bloke , really down to earth.
Bare flats which I have always thought the ugliest building in the town/city. These have always stood out because they are the tallest building for a few miles around. No open balconies, al enclosed with the “balcony” area separated from the main room. Even a resident of the flats who I know, when asked what they think of the building, will say their flat’s nice. The only positive thing I can say about them is the best helium miner in the area is somewhere up in those flats, but that fact doesn’t make then less ugly. They are built on a raised base which contains a tiny car park relative to the size of the building, built in the days when few had cars.
It’s Monday. The day after the weekend so we are naturally in a confused state. To add to our confusion we see that there are indeed two entries close to one another in the Morecambe section of the Drone Scene map.
The one for Morecambe Beach appears either as a night shot or it is missing pictures:
How would you rate these - most locals seem to think they are hideous ?
( NOT an entry as they are within Blackpool Airport NFZ - pic from builder’s website )
The Grosvenor House, which was originally the Strathclyde Hotel, was built in the 1950s and its upper floors are the town’s best surviving examples of the urban architecture of the time.
Fact file:
The building originally opened as the Strathclyde Hotel in the about 1960. It had 41 bedrooms, eleven floors and was a three-star establishment.
It was the first stop for many steelworkers moving to Corby, and was home to a Save our Steel banner during the late 1970s.
However, it was shut down in the 1980s after Legionnaire’s disease was discovered there.
It was home to several nightclubs including Martine’s owned by Corby nightlife legend Bip Wetherell, and was later the home of Corby Council from 2000 after they moved from the civic building across the road which had structural problems. The majority of council functions were moved out of the building in 2010.
Guess its got little chance of winning but thought it a bit of fun anyway! 
Looks worse in the flesh as it were. 
Sorry it won’t be getting my vote for an ugly building… Cracking image though 
(although I try not to tell people)
