Then, I contacted the Organizing Committee of the “top ten ugly buildings selection” and found that this is a selection activity initiated by a group of authoritative experts in the industry and academia.
The relevant parties hurried to find them and wanted to spend money to “settle” and remove them from the nomination.
At the beginning of 2011, after a three-month selection of the government office building in Huangjin Town, Zhongxian County, Chongqing, the organizer, building talk.com, announced the list of the first ten ugly buildings – “fulushou” (Hebei Tianzi Hotel), “big copper coin” (Shenyang Fangyuan building) and “Shanzhai Tiananmen” (a government office building in Chongqing).
Zhou Rong heard that after some local governments found that their own buildings topped the list, they specially issued internal documents and asked local governments to play down the news as much as possible.
There are three judges in their 80s who have been writing comments and doing activities since the 1980s.
Such a dense visual impact ignited the enthusiasm of netizens, and for a time, online forwarding and re creation were overwhelming.
The selection was accidentally launched in 2010.
The judges admitted that the criticism of large-scale public buildings may have an impact on relevant departments.
The comments were very vicious.
For example, the “hairy crab ecological museum” in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, the “big crab” built by developers at a cost of more than 13 million, unloaded its crab legs shortly after it was listed in the list of ugly buildings in 2018.
After the reform and opening up, the impact of multiculturalism and the arrogance of capital have created a steady stream of ugly buildings.
When urbanization and economic development slow down, it may be the opportunity for rational return.
“They actually play the role of ballast stone”..
The immortals stand in a building only up to their waist and show you a strange smile against the blue sky.
For example, can we talk about whether the public buildings in our city give citizens enough sense of acceptance? Are vulnerable groups adequately accessible? What is our ideal relationship between people and cities··············· ❶ in a selection of ugly buildings, I first found the species of “ugly buildings” in some aerial videos on the Internet.
At that time, a group of architectural experts chatted at the academic seminar and talked about that some buildings around were very ugly.
It’s hard to imagine that this is a hotel – the windows of the hotel rooms are designed to be very small for the sake of the integrity of the shape of the gods.
It was spontaneously initiated by a group of authoritative experts in the construction industry.
“We are not afraid of him,” Wang Mingxian said with a smile.
In this way, in the warm response of netizens, the event has been held for 12 years, which has also triggered many chain reactions.
“Capital acts willfully, destroys marine ecology, and has strange and messy forms.
A few months ago, the results of the 12th selection in 2021 were announced, and the champion was awarded to Haihua Island, Hainan.
In the era of rapid development, ugly buildings emerge by taking advantage of the foam of capital.
Without any official background, it is a taboo selection that even the masters in the industry will not let go.
The more it was changed, the uglier it became, which damaged the city image of the east gate of the capital.” Source: Stephen shot the video “catch alive in the water! Where is the largest bastard in the world?” I haven’t seen such bold language expression in public space for a long time.
“The building upgrading and transformation failed to correct the original design defects.
The lawyer’s letter also came like a snowflake – a few months ago, just after the 2021 selection results were announced, the Organizing Committee received a lawyer’s letter from the relevant party of a listed building, asking the organizer to revoke the selection results within a time limit and make a public apology, otherwise I will see you in court.
In some places, the Bazheng hairy crab ecological museum began to “plan ahead” – in the “audition” stage, there were buildings on the list.
Those on the list include “big crab” and “big wine bottle” with “ugly eyes”, hotel “fulushou” in the shape of three great immortals, Hengda Haihua island that destroys marine ecology and Chongqing Raffles square that damages the historical and cultural scale of mountain city.
In cities, they occupy large areas of land awkwardly, which can be described as “visual pollution”.
Someone proposed to simply evaluate ugly buildings.
Source: the video taken by Stephen “aerial exploration, giant fortune and longevity come to a community in Hebei” if you continue to find it, you will also find giant Russian dolls, large copper coins, large wine bottles, or other living things that enlarge the scale of a strange shape in the city.
Later, I learned that the excavation of ugly buildings came from a “top ten ugly buildings selection” – you can understand it as the golden raspberry award of the architectural year.
Wang Mingxian, the person in charge of the jury, a scholar of architecture and art history and a visiting professor of the Central American Institute of architecture, told me, “we thought we would finish the evaluation once or twice, but we didn’t expect the ugly buildings to be more brave than ever.”.
The editor in chief of architectural talk network discussed with several experts and established the first evaluation committee, And discussed the rules of the first selection: first solicit the nominations of ugly buildings from the public online (and then further open up the voting channel of the public online), and then be evaluated by experts.
In the more than ten years of selection and iteration, the times are changing, and the appearance of “Ugliness” is also changing.
In addition, with the selection, the works of some well-known architects began to “appear on the list”, which added another layer of human pressure to the jury.
There is a “blessing, wealth and longevity” in Hebei Province, which has built the building into three great immortals.
The reason why the selection can resist the pressure until the 12th year is the simple idealism of some senior predecessors in the industry.
The judges include well-known architectural and art historians, professors of College of architecture, as well as important architects and architectural critics.
After the “scandal spread thousands of miles”, ugly buildings in some places were secretly demolished.
It is a typical example of showcasing wealth and kitsch cultural and tourism projects.” When commenting on a large hotel in Beijing, the judges criticized its recent upgrading and transformation.
You must have seen some ironic “ugly buildings” around you or on the Internet, but you don’t necessarily know that there is a “selection of China’s top ten ugly buildings”.
