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Thursday 23 August 2012

LITERAL ARCHITECTURE: 12 AWFUL BUILDINGS DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS


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Literal Architecture: 12 Awful Buildings Designed to Look Like Other Things
By Claire Cottrell,
Flavor Wire, 22 August 2012.

As proud, card carrying members of the creative class, we know all to well that finding original and intelligent inspiration can be tough, especially in a world where even the most obscure references are a few expert keystrokes away. Yes, keeping up with a well-edited Tumblr dashboard is enough to make your head spin, but still, it’s no excuse for lazy, uninspired design. As with anything, there’s the bad, the ugly, and then, there’s the unforgivable. Let us warn you dear readers: the architecture you are about to see falls definitively in to the latter category.

From a hotel intentionally designed to look like a commonplace salt shaker to the worst, larger than life representation of a fish we’ve ever seen, click through to check out our irreverent roundup of unfortunate design inspiration. Then, take the opportunity to pass a little anonymous judgement and nominate your picks in the comments below!


1. Holiday Inn inspired by a sugar shaker - Townsend, Australia

Image credit: City Noise; Alibaba


2. Asahi Building inspired by a human sperm - Tokyo, Japan



3. National Fisheries Development Board regional office building inspired by a fish - Hyderabad, India

Image credit: NCSX; Free Pet Wallpapers


4. Chang Building inspired by an elephant - Bangkok, Thailand

Image credit: List25; Thomas Schoch


5. Fang Yuan Da Sha inspired by an ancient Chinese coin - Shenyang, China



6. Diagonal Towers inspired by a hashtag - Seoul, Korea

Image credit: SOM via e-architect; Media Funnel


7. De Young Museum inspired by a Jawa Sandcrawler - San Francisco, California, USA



8. Apartment building inspired by a strip of film - Malaga, Spain

Image credit: Tracy Benjamin


9. Piano Violin House - Huainan, China



10. AT&T Building inspired by Batman - Nashville, Tennessee, USA



11. Namba Parks Building inspired by a Sony Playstation 3 - Osaka, Japan



12. Zayed National Museum inspired by a pair of wings - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates


[Source: Flavor Wire. Edited.]


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