Tourists flock to see 'ugly' building in Nice, France

Tourists flock to see 'ugly' building in Nice, France

La Tête au Carré or The Square Head in Nice, France may look like an art installation from an insanely creative artist but this is actually a 30-metre library composed of seven floors, three in the neck and four in the cube.

It is the first monumental habitable sculpture in the world, according to Tripzilla Magazine.

The building is covered with finely perforated aluminium mesh so that no one can see the inside from the outside but the staff inside can see the outside world.

Locals find this building odd and ugly because the building structure is very different from the buildings around.

However, it has become a big tourist attraction because it stands out from the rest.

Ugly buildings, which borderline of criminal, have somehow managed to pop up even in the prettiest cities.

Then there is the age-old debate about whether ugly buildings deserved preservation if deemed historically important.

According to the New York Times in 2012, a proposal was rejected to demolish the county government centre in Goshen village, north of New York City.

Local administrators had wanted the building, constructed in 1967 and designed by modernist architect Paul Rudolph, demolished because of its leaky roof and damage by storms.

Residents considered it an eyesore that is out of place in its quaint surroundings.

But preservationists had said it should be saved as it exemplifies an architectural style called Brutalism that rejected efforts to prettify buildings in favour of displaying the raw power of simple forms and undisguised building materials, such as the centre's textured facade.

But since beauty - as well as ugliness- may be in the eye of the beholder, you decide and tell us which you think are the ugliest buildings worth visiting (or not, really).

 

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