Ohhhhh yes.
For contrast purposes, here are Montreal’s former Palais de Justice and current Court of Appeals. Dominant message: the majesty and dignity of the rule of law.
Current Palais de Justice, immediately adjacent to both of the above. Dominant message: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
I think you’re being a little hard on the hotel here. All it needs is the right topper:
http://www.bondagerotica.com/extras/ryugyong-hotel-topper.jpg
These buildings look like they were built out of Legos (with Tinker Toys for stilts).
We went to war over this very same topic in Great Debates just a month or so ago.
Here is the link.
I made my udder revulsion for 98% of modern architecture very clear in that thread. Many have beat me to it, but Boston City Hall and its plaza is really an abomination. Its continuing existence is an affront to God himself. 
Somehow this handsome and functional mixed used neighborhood was turned into this wasteland. How people collectively ever thought this kind of stuff was a good idea boggles my mind.
I did want to say that, outside of the outlandish size, I didn’t particularly dislike the Stalinish university-type buildings. On a more human, scale, they’d make a nice skyscraper thing. But good lord, that’s outlandishly sized. And it’s not a good fit for any kind of educational affair.
This is Nintendo HQ. I don’t even now what to say. It looks like a prison, or maybe some cubist painter’s nightmares. I can’t imagine a lesss inviting, interesting building outside the Iron Curtain.
Here is a picure of the Stalinallee, now called the Karl-Marx-Allee. Believe it or not, this is a much improved version of the original. The first form of it was substantially more bland and imposing. Oh yeah, that was just one building of it. The thing is an entire huge city road, stretching almost 2 miles, and every inch is like that. It’s also hugely far across (90 meters wide!); it’s like standing in a canyon.
What makes matters worse is that you are in fact standing in an artificial canyon… on the steppe. Berlin’s landscape is nice and wide open… with the prairie breezes…
In short, the place is a bloody wind tunnel. You’re out there with the wind shooting through like a hurricane, often making it rather chill, and certainly noisy and unfriendly. There’s nowehere for the wind to go and no cover any of the way down. Basically, the whole thing was miserable back in the day and it’s still not particularly nice. Do yourself a favor and go back to the Alexanderplatx or Potsdamer Platz.
Speaking of which, the Potsadamer Platz is a ridiculously garish affair. It’s actually kinda nice in there, with a couple of restaurants and things, but it’s still a little odd. The buildings kinda cage you in, and the stuff around there is semi-random, like they just reachd into a hat and picked out names for whatever would go there. Still, it’s a good area overall and there’s a lot to do near there.
Museo de Nacion in Lima Peru
That’s just from one angle. From the front entrance it’s a normal office building with a car-park out front and glass-walled first floor.
