2. The Orbit Observation Tower – London, UK
via wikipedia.org
Marring the London Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, the Orbit Tower is a lesson in sometimes not everything deserves a sporting chance. It looks as though a giant has tried to make a passable snake’s skeleton and wrapped it around some concrete leftovers, or a rollercoaster has crashed into a tower. Either way, this is a deserving number two on the list.
1. Trellick Tower – North Kensington, London, UK
via pastscape.org.uk
Crowning the list, it’s back to London. Ironic that a city claiming to have streets “paved with gold” is dotted with the odd eyesore here and there. Spoiling the opulence of its nearby surroundings in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Trellick Tower is a residential high rise building that more resembles an industrial plant or hastily built military facility rather than a place for people to live.
But for all it’s ugliness, there seems to be an odd charm about the bleak and depressing edifice. It resembles a marriage between the wealthy and the destitute that has weighed the scales in an odd balancing act throughout London over the course of centuries. Maybe it needs a lick of paint, a tad of TLC, although maybe this would make it fade into the background? For all it’s roughness, it certainly is a sore thumb in the UK capital’s array of wonderful buildings, yet offers it’s own perverse wonder for doing so.
-therichest
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