[QUOTE=AWB]
There’s a building in Tyson’s Corner, VA, that has a large white archway over its front courtyard. It’s oval in shape, and it looks like a toilet bowl seat. If you mention “The Toilet Bowl”, people in the area immediately know what building you’re talking about.
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You mean this one?
They finally tore down one of the worlds most ugly buidings.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth
[QUOTE=Meurglys]
Here in Edinburgh we have a wonderfully ugly new Parliament building:
side view
front view
members’ offices; close up
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Wow, that’s awful. I rather like the building the OP talks about.
[QUOTE=Renee]
Wow, that’s awful.
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It actually looks ok from some viewpoints, and but it really is a dog’s dinner of a building. It’s very nice inside though. A bargain for 900 million dollars!
I love how the parliament members’ offices are already behind bars… at least they are honest about their role! 
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
You mean this one?
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Yes.
[QUOTE=Don26]
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Starfleet Academy!
[QUOTE=Vlad/Igor]
Starfleet Academy!
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Sadly, $125 MILLION DOLLAR Fresno City Hall
I have a really strong urge to rapell down the face of the ugly ass thing…
[QUOTE=AWB]
There’s a building in Tyson’s Corner, VA, that has a large white archway over its front courtyard. It’s oval in shape, and it looks like a toilet bowl seat. If you mention “The Toilet Bowl”, people in the area immediately know what building you’re talking about.
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Having passed the building literally thousands of times, I only visited it once, and that was last weekend (There’s a Chinese restaurant on the ground floor where a friend and I had dinner). I had always wondered if skateboarders were tempted to use the building’s edifice as a half-pipe. The texture of the rim, combined with the placement of some bolted-down park benches and a flagpole, make such an enterprise difficult.
Y’know, in case you were wondering…
[QUOTE=BACI]
No you don’t…
We do.
Game over.
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Wow. It’s like someone drew up plans for a fairly ordinary office building, then crumpled up the blueprints and threw them away. Then someone else found the blueprints and used them to actually build a building without bothering to first uncrumple them.
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
I thought we owned the ugliest building in the world…
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Hey! I like that building! Especially the glowing blobs suspended in the lobby!
[QUOTE=BACI]
No you don’t…
We do.
Game over.
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And that’s the Horse of a Different Colour parked out front?
[QUOTE=Rick]
The Seattle dopers want to know what they won.
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Another one. 
LOL. I am a definite fan of a lot of these buildings. Not all, but several. Go modern architecture! Gehry rocks! LA’s Walt Disney Hall is one of my all time favorites.
I also like all these buildings (well, some less than others). They’re a refreshing change from endless glass-and-steel block buildings.
[QUOTE=Ragiel]
I also like all these buildings (well, some less than others). They’re a refreshing change from endless glass-and-steel block buildings.
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Then BEHOLD!!!
The glory of Nashville’s AT&T Tower–a.k.a. "The Batman Building ".
Goofy, but we like it.
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Then BEHOLD!!!
The glory of Nashville’s AT&T Tower–a.k.a. "The Batman Building ".
Goofy, but we like it.
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Oh, that’s great! It’s adorable!
I lived in Nashville for 8 years. The buildings in the foreground are familiar.
Wow!
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Hey! I like that building! Especially the glowing blobs suspended in the lobby!
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Considering you just passed your Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing exam, I’m going to be very, very afraid for Toronto’s architecture over here…
I think the Batman Building’s cute.
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
Considering you just passed your Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing exam, I’m going to be very, very afraid for Toronto’s architecture over here…
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Bwa-ha-ha-ha…
:: rubs hands with glee ::
(brightly) Did you know that the straight line is obsolete?
:: peers intently at the listener ::