Boston City Hall in Boston Ma apparently was declared by Virtual Tourist to be the ugliest building in the world. Today Reuters (from Sydney - Reuters Life!) posted a news report at 9:31 am EST called "Travel Picks: 10 top ugly buildings and monument."This news quickly spread across the Internet. Here is the full list of the earth's ugliest buildings and monuments as given in the article (in order of classification).
1. Boston City Hall - Boston, Massachusetts
2. Montparnasse Tower - Paris, France
3. LuckyShoe Monument - Tuuri, Finland
4. Metropolitan Cathedral - Liverpool, England
5. Port Authority Bus Terminal - New York City, New York
6. Torres de Colon - Madrid, Spain
7. Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts - Vaduz, Liechtenstein
8. Scottish Parliament Building - Edinburgh, Scotland
9. Birmingham Central Library - Birmingham, England
10. Peter the Great Statue - Moscow, Russia
Reuters also quoted the general manager in the same breath as it mentioned the web site.
Web site VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) has come up with a list of "The World's Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments" according to their editors and readers. Reuters has not endorsed this list.
"Some of these picks have all the charm of a bag of nails while others are just jaw-dropping in their complexity. Love them or hate them, the list is certainly entertaining," said General manager Giampiero Ambrosi.
Now here is my problem. I went to that website (www.virtualtourist.com). For the life of me, I couldn't find the list. Are they waiting until the entire Internet publishes it first?
I admit that almost all Boston attractions are delightful whereas the Boston City Hall is not. The Brutalist "raw concrete" style of Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles is literally in stark contrast to the many charming Boston bed and breakfast lodges. If I were a tourist, I would vastly prefer the architecture of the hotels to that roadwork posing as a building.
But still, where is that list by Virtual Tourist?
