Unfortunate-looking building of the day

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Emo Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower shows that even “Grade II” buildings can be ugly and unfortunate-looking if they really, really, shoot for it; as you can see, Goldfinger nailed it, which is kind of appropriate since the Goldfinger of James Bond fame was named after Emo.

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  2. [...] Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - Any university overlooking the Pacific Ocean has a good chance of making the top 10.  Not Pepperdine.  For some ridiculous reason it chose to make itself a temple of 1970s-80s architecture, which has resulted in bunker-like, beveled, concrete rectangles with poorly-lit interiors.  The campus grounds are fine (when the wildfires are held at bay), but those buildings are just plain awful.  One might say unfortunate-looking. [...]

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