More Buildings to Hate

Vintage interior photo of Boston City Hall, photographer unknown.

Last week T Magazine published my interviews with seven top architects defending what the magazine called The World’s Most Hated Buildings. Naturally, the people of the internet could think of many more that did not make Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind and company’s list.

At Gizmodo, Alissa Walker revealed her own love for John Portman’s anti-urban Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and asked readers to write in with more nominees. Leading candidates: Robarts Library in Toronto, Experience Music Project in Seattle and of course top Twitter nominee Boston City Hall.

At Curbed, they’ve got the Portland Building (about which I wrote a very narrow defense last fall), the recent Walkie Talkie Tower in London, and the Antilla — the 34-story private residence in Mumbai.