This is PRECISELY what that OLD FOGIE the Prince always has in mind.

This is also the formerly Great Britain's version of TILTED ARC.

And it's named DARWIN CENTER, which proves STARCHITECTS continue to DEVOLVE.

AwwwwwwwwSHUCKS! ARCHDaily! says that Lego house has to be demolished because the owner couldn't find a buyer.

Not even PEOPLE WARNER?

Well at least the bricks didn't go to waste; they're heading to charity.

Controversy is surrounding the latest design of the 400 meter tower for Gazprom, a Russian energy company. Designed by RMJM, the tower, known as Okhta Center, will dominate the skyline, towering over the spire of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The new design may actually become the tallest building in Europe, which begs the question that even though we have the capability of building taller and larger, should that be our priority?

The time will come when STARCHITECTS will design towers 10,000 feet high and a block square. Likely only STARCHITECTS will want to inhabit them.

Somebody tried to build a Moebius strip and got caught!

Hey kids! Y'wanna play with that house on the right?

Scary: the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Jeddah. It would have to look like a place where...never mind.

Now see, in the dark, some modern architecture doesn't look so bad.

Of course other modern architecture should remain as dark as possible.

I believe I can FLYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY....

(Yep, another Shanghai expo pavilion!)

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I'll take 300 Big Macs, 400 large fries, and...how about a couple hundred Quarter Pounders for my little friend here!

(A police station in Taipei!)

SO, when the team wins the championship we'll have the confetti already in place!

We've said before that our age can't honor the past because we've systematically taken our collective memory and tossed it overboard. New York's on-site memorial to 9-11 is a dead end you'd never be stuck in at night. I know it has to be below ground but what's wrong with some light, and air, and hopefulness?

Here we thought we had something new poking fun at ARCHDaily and the Brits have a trade journal that's been doing the same thing for four years!



This was NOT the winner of the Carbuncle Cup, but there is something so very -- British in its...whimsy.

Woodlands Manor in Belfast by Coogan & Co also had architectural aspirations, said the judges, but they rather wished it hadn’t.

We KNOW, we know.

(First link via the usual AHTSJournal)

Okay, this is a decent looking farmhouse -- but who ever spent $200 million on a farmhouse?

OHHHH, this is East Hampton! Don't a lot of brokers live there?

Someone painted over the ricky-ticky-stickies!

This will be the Chinese pavilion at that Shanghai expo. It is fraught with unintended symbolism. Consider how the Chinese government rules. Then look at this structure. Consider further that China frequently has earthquakes. NUF SAID.

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This would be a better building for Iceland than that KFC.

Yep, that's a KFC in Iceland, and the design is apt because it looks like an Arte Moderne igloo, and it's black in honor of the country the Icelanders burned to the ground.

A spaceship? A boat for Mars? An airplane? Or just MORE BAD STARCHITECTURE?