This may be the ugliest building on earth, London City Hall. The former mayor of London called it “the Glass Testicle.” I’d say it looks more like a tumor.
For some reason, left-leaning dottles think it’s beautiful. Worth all of 43 zillion pounds. And very hard to heat, very hard to cool.
Someday archaeologists are going to study this monstrosity and wonder if we’d lost our minds.
G’day! Byron the Quokka here, with the latest exciting progress report from Quokka University.
We’re going to have a School of Architecture!
Y’know, everyone thinks he can design and build a building–and look at the mess they make of it. By contrast, here I am having dinner in Quokka U’s all-new Leon G. Fuzzymuzzle Cafeteria. What a difference raw architectural know-how makes!
Once we get around to actually having students, we expect our architectural graduates to revolutionize building design all over Rottnest Island–and maybe the world. I mean, have you seen that monstrosity they call the London City Hall? Looks like a giant pimple!
Well, you can bet your last leaf that we won’t be building anything like that. Even those jimbos in London could’ve done better, if they’d used grass and sticks and twigs. And because we use all natural building materials, our city hall would’ve cost practically nothing.
We can hardly wait to open Quokka U to everyone who loves learning (and can pay the tuition!).
That’s how former London Mayor Ken Livingstone describes London City Hall: “the glass testicle.” He is being kind. If this is not the ugliest building on earth, I don’t know what is.
This architectural monstrosity opened in 2002 after some 43 million pounds were spent building it. Its grotesque shape was supposed to make it more energy efficient, but then they used so much glass in its exterior that it has turned out to be one of the more energy inefficient dumps in London. Science marches on.
It reminds me of an unfortunate typo once seen in a newspaper real estate ad, which read, “You can’t heat this one!” It’s probably a bugger to try to cool it, too.
What hope is there for adult human beings, charged with the responsibility to handle vast amounts of money, able to employ the most highly-regarded experts money can buy, who wind up building something that looks like a badly rotting jack-o’-lantern? I mean, we give you 43 million pounds and we get this? Did humans actually perpetrate this fiasco, or did we have to bring in some demented race of space aliens to get such truly abysmal results?
If you are ever tempted to believe in the self-perfectibility of man, take another look at London City Hall.