This structure needs no introduction; it is one of the great design and engineering masterpieces of all time. Can you imagine how a STARCHITECT would redesign it?

Well, he might start with something like



THIS!



Speaking of hideous, can you imagine the poor people of Japan -- or anywhere -- enduring temporary housing like THIS? It's an argument for radiation poisoning.



What is with STARCHITECTS and HVAC systems?

NOT ARCHDaily!



Looks like a elementary school in the 70's [Business Insider commenter SICs]

For $4 million, you too can live in a community recreation center.

Pee Wee's Playhouse is for sale???

Looks like more of a work of ass than than a work of art.

it'll sell for $250K in 43 months from now [More Business Insider commenter SICs]

It's in THE HAMPTONS and it's selling for $4 MILLION. Go for it!

A police station from chopsticks and toilet paper!



Now see, this central market in Spain isn't quite so bad; it improves on a late-19th-century building. But even it has a bit of that starchitectural mememe that can render good designs NSG. We reiterate though this one isn't bad at all.

HHHHHHHHHHWAL-ter CrrrrrRON-KITE lives on...in his own starchitectural mess!

This is as faithful to beauty as Uncle HHHHHWALT was to the truth.



Now why does this modest little church need the canopy -- and a dunce cap to boot?



Boy -- that church must get awwwwwwfully hot in the summer!



Well it is one of our least favorite terms: adaptive reuse (translation: turning factory space over to upscale parasites), but if you're going to do it at least do it like this.

The thing about modern institutional architecture is that so much of it looks -- institutional.



Well, one bunch of museum-planning Canadian architects has a sense of humor. We hope it isn't too expensive.

Why are we thinking a building in blackface?



How do you get from one end to the other?

IIIII SEEEEEEEEEE youuuuuuuuuu!



$20 million on stilts!

Sorry if this is in bad taste but one must ask -- isn't a little late for a fallout shelter? (It's in Hiroshima.)



This is the Scottish Parliament. It won a prize. So did the Lockerbie bomber.

No wonder they let him go.



$10 million on stilts!



A Swiss-cheese museum!



The world's largest in-box of black paper!

See, not all modern architecture is bad -- in fact we think this is pretty good: light and woody and airy and inviting -- just one thing, though: this community center is in California, meaning it either cost zillions to build or costs zillions to run that the taxpayers can't afford. We hope we are wrong on both points.

The awkwardly shaped large site at West Side Highway and 57th Street is about to get...

...a building to match!

I don't care how many billions you spend on a parking garage -- it's still a parking garage!



Dear Dear design (SIC), what is with you starchitects and $50 million shoe stores?



10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3...uh Bangalore, we have a problem.

If you have to ask how much it costs to get your hair styled here....

Don't go in there! You'll shrink to THREE INCHES HIGH!



"The Gown"? What would these starchitects have done to a BIKINI?



In the dark days of 1942, as the allied Merchant Marine came under heavy pressure from German U-boats, a new secret warship, the S. S. Firminy, set sail from....

Oh, it's a "classic"? So's Plan 9 from Outer Space. At least you can laugh at that.

A covered bridge to nowhere!



Does this library have bookworms?

Dear Dear design [sic]: If I had $50 million to burn I could build "a shoe store in less than 25 square meters" too.