What is the Ugliest Building in RI?
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Business Insider thinks they know which is the ugliest building in each state and they have the answer for Rhode Island.
The online business publication says that in Rhode Island, the Apex building is the ugliest building.
In Massachusetts, the ugliest building in Boston City Hall and in Connecticut the worst building in the Pirelli building in New Haven -- just off I-95.
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Business Insider writes about its state-by-state selection. Architecture is a form of art. When a city constructs a new building, it should add beauty to its streetscape.
But that doesn't always happen. Every town across the United States likely has a tower, a government complex, or an office building that residents wish never went up.
Business Insider asked readers to name the one architectural eyesore they loathe in their state. Responses ranged from a building that looks like a giant wooden basket to a hotel painted solid gold.
The most unpopular buildings — two that were named by nearly a dozen readers — were Boston's City Hall, a concrete structure that one person described as "depressing," and Manhattan's 432 Park Avenue, a skyscraper that another reader said resembles "a very tall trashcan."
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