Ugliest tall building in town?

[John Goodman]

Easily 2000 market

[thoth]

That's just a black box, if not exactly attractive, it's at least pretty inoffensive. There are many others that just look like crap. Like the nearby kennedy house.

[RashadZak]

The two ****brick stacks at 15th and Locust rank pretty high up there.

[BarryG]

1818 is worse.

[Strandherd]

The Sterling/Kennedy House/Penn Center House - three ugly slabs misplaced and poorly conceived along a major thoroughfare.

[Scoats]

The Blue Cross Building at 19th and Market. The single gable is very banal, especially as it came a few years after the great top on Liberty I. It also has a giant Blue Cross logo blocking the view from several higher floor offices. In addition, the arch thing that looks like it should be the front door isn't. The front door is hidden to the side of it. Luckily the building boom of that time ended before they could built its twin. Maybe it isn't exactly ugly but stupid.

[Gladys]

COMCAST hands down.

[InYourVacancies]

COMCAST hands down.

A towering turd.

[supersupper]

Sympathy House, which always has to go alongside Dockside

[MarketStEl]

Sympathy House, which always has to go alongside Dockside

(emphasis added)

Freudian slip?

That building gets no sympathy from me; I really wish Carl Dranoff had let the condo tower be its Modernist self as the Philadelphia Theater Company did with its half of the joint project.

[John Goodman]

I think the dockside is fun


As for 2000 market, the fact that it dominates the view as you enter center city from university city really boils my blood

[BarryG]

I think the dockside is fun


As for 2000 market, the fact that it dominates the view as you enter center city from university city really boils my blood

I don't mind the Dockside either.

From UC, the new AAA building addition will help (though it is pretty boring) and the Murano is nice. But really there are much bigger problems with the stretch of Market between UC and the office district than the view of 2000.

[OffenseTaken]

Pretty much every hotel built in CC since 1945 is in contention.

1800 Market Street (now d/b/a the Sonesta) might just be outshine all of them, though:

[supersupper]

(emphasis added)

Freudian slip?

That building gets no sympathy from me; I really wish Carl Dranoff had let the condo tower be its Modernist self as the Philadelphia Theater Company did with its half of the joint project.

I was going to write Dick Side so it was clear I was having a little fun with play on words, but thought that would be too much. So I didn't. Now I understand that merely led to confusion.

I have sympathy for the people who live there as I can understand why one might want to, and simply and bravely suffer the incredibly bad architecture of the outside.

Dick Side has no redeeming value aesthetically whatsoever. Its not fun, its stupid looking. Its a fine line, granted, and maybe in the distant future it's ridiculousness might look charmingly lovable and sufferable.

I acknowledge the gravitas of ArtBlahg for my attempt at the word play (though, please, I'm not artblahg..... but I'm pretty sure I know who is and it is NOT the guy everyone thinks it is)

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1800 market might easily be considered bland (and thats probably only because its lost in a sea of too many others like it), but I'm not sure it can be called ugly.