Oddly enough, it doesn’t appear to have been circumcised.
The Leacock Building at McGill wins this hands down.
OH MY GODS. If you people could even see it. It’s some batshit combination of the worst o’ medieval architecture seen through the modern lens of 60s cinderblock architecture. I particularly adore the nasty dirty slitty little windows that turn it from completely 60s cinderblock to 60s cinderblock “keep”.
Hid city.
No shit, it’s like the Lego Testicle Twin Buildings!
Photo please! Photo please! Photo please!
Yes, we are that masochistic.
JoseB
Actually, SmartAleq, I was thinking of some other counterpart…
JoseB
If they ever finish the Ryugyong Hotel, they should make it into into a condominium. Their key selling point: It’s the only building in Pyongyang that doesn’t have a view of the Ryugyong building!
What I’ve noticed from the various discussions is that some people seem to go gung-ho for striking buildings, and any aesthetic considerations are, well, not considered. Other people are more interested in the building’s personal beauty, and some are concerned with the building’s relationship to its surroundings (which is why, for ewxample, Liebeskind is Satan incarnate to some and not others).
Echoes of Guy de Maupassant… 
It is said that he hated the Eiffel Tower with a passion, but went very often for lunch to the restaurant that was located at the tower itself.
When asked why, he supposedly answered: “It’s the only place in Paris where you cannot see the tower”.
Just my 2 eurocent!
JoseB
This Leacock Building?
I’m surprised. I was expecting something a lot more hideous. It looks fairly normal for 1960s-style university architecture. I was expecting something like the dreary fake-castle houses and restaurants made of concrete block that I’ve seen around Ontario. There’s one such house visible from the 115 southwest of Peterborough. There’s a similar restaurant on the outskirts of Meaford. Og help me, I’m trying to find pictures of them.
Edit" Here’s one (lower left).
Too late to catch the edit window:
The Meaford Castle restaurant, linked in my previous post, is for sale. What a surprise.
Unfortunately no. Some cities still have to put up with flying saucers crashing into malls
I nominate: Tennessee’s Tallest Building.
It’s bad enough to make one leave Nashville.
Or indeed, never go there in the first place. It doesn’t look that tall in the picture, although saying that the design makes scale hard to judge.
I think that’s really quite beautiful.
You can’t really see the medieval elements in those pictures.
The whole thing is built like a very weird keep. There are these really narrow slitty windows all over the place (much like a mouldering castle), like the McGillians needed to pour boiling oil on invading hordes and keep out such dangerous elements as light and fresh air. Strange narrow staircases abound.
You really have to see it in person to appreciate the fugly.
Hmmm, in that case it’d be a threesome!
Several folks have nominated “Stalinist stacking” type buildings. Here’s a link to a Holiday Inn in Prague: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hotel/prgcs?rpb=hotel&crUrl=/h/d/hi/1/en/hotelsearchresults. They photographed the building from the only semi-flattering angle possible. From the front, it is a truly hideous Stalinist pile. Despite the ugliness I love this building because of the supreme irony. It was orignally the Hotel Internationale and was built for the communist party apparatchiks. It had its own miniature golf course so the good party members wouldn’t be bored. The fact that it is now a Holiday Inn is almost too rich to believe. In its heyday, the Czechs referred to it as “Stalin’s Wedding Cake,” which was a pretty accurate description.
“Comfort in exceptional architectural style” eh? I’ll bet.
Hell, it probably is a nuclear bomb (or the rocket which carries it).
Albino Batman!