# Ugly, ridiculous, impractical buildings that you still think are awesome **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-ridiculous-impractical-buildings-that-you-still-think-are-awesome/696877 "2014-08-29T16:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 75
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-ridiculous-impractical-buildings-that-you-still-think-are-awesome/696877/75 "2022-02-27T20:16:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > > > This thread needs to be zombied for its absolutely egregious omission of the Geisel Library at the University of San Diego. (heh - essentially the first building you see when entering “brutalist architecture” in google) > > That building looks like nothing Dr. Seuss ever drew. If they’re going to name it after him it ought to be rounded, sloppy, and organic-looking, as if it _grew_ somehow and then got left out in the sun and softened and melted. Perhaps the best example of real life Seussian architecture is at Las Pozas: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dnhtxvGmaI0/hqdefault.jpg "Xilitla: The Surreal Gardens of Las Pozas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhtxvGmaI0) > **[Las Pozas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Pozas)** > > Las Pozas ("the Pools") is a surrealistic group of structures created by Edward James, more than 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level, in a subtropical rainforest in the Sierra Gorda mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres (32 ha) of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures in concrete. Las Pozas is near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, a seven-hour drive north of Mexico City. In the early 1940s, James went to Los Angeles, California, and then ... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-ridiculous-impractical-buildings-that-you-still-think-are-awesome/696877)._