Design is all about striking a balance between practicality and aesthetics. And that’s even more true for public spaces: functionality might trump the visuals of a space. Sadly, not every designer sticks to these core principles, hence why we sometimes get questionable but hilarious fails.
This time, we’ve put together a list of the most disappointing design decisions in public places that might have many of you asking: “Who came up with this?” Bathrooms with no doors, non-functioning recycling trashcans, seats with a blocked view, and other absurd fails await you down below!
#1 Every Waste Can In This Entire Major City’s Hospital Is A Lie
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#2 Waiting Room At Pediatric Clinic Has Toys Secured Behind Plexiglass For Display Only – No Actual Toys For The Kids To Play With
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#3 This Clubs Toilets Have No Doors
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#4 Men’s Room Door At A Local Hospital. I Had To Turn Sideways To Get In, I Am Not A Large Man
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#5 The Nonsensical Placement Of These Lights In This Classroom
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#6 This Is The Inside Of The Bathroom Door At A Bar In NYC. After Some Cocktails, It Is Impossible To Pick The Right One On The First Try
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#7 Dublin Airport Didn’t Think This Through
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#8 ‘My Job Is To Build Walls Not Move Screens’
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#9 This Bathroom Floor
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#10 There Is A Door In The Ceiling Of Our School. No One Knows Where It Goes (Including Teachers And Janitors), No One Has Ever Used It. It Mysteriously Opened A Few Days Ago, And No One Knows How. You Can’t See Anything In It, It’s Just Darkness. No One Has An Explanation. Our School Is 98 Years Old
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#11 Useless Access Ramp In A Dubai Shopping Mall
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#12 This Ceiling Fan In My Classroom
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#13 I Saw This At My School
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#14 This Title In The Bathroom At A Restaurant
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#15 This Stunning Mural Painted In My School Was Covered Up By Lockers Recently
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#16 My School Tried To Make The Staircase To The Cafeteria Accessible To Wheelchair Users
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#17 Imagine Spending $300 For NFL Tickets, Just To Sit Behind A Pillar
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#18 View From The Last Row Of My Local Theater
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#19 A Blank Wall Would Have Been Just Fine
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#20 “Shall We Cut The Wall Or Remove The Fan?” “No”
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#21 Remodeled Bathroom At Work. I Guess There Wasn’t A Better Place To Put The Full Size Mirror
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#22 But Why Tho
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#23 Found This At My College
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#24 This Sink Drips Water Like Rain, It Is All One Pipe With Holes So If One Person Uses It Wastes Enough Water For 5 People And Doesn’t Even Provide A Steady Stream
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#25 The Way These Pictures Are Hung In The Hallway At Work
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#26 This Angled Mirror Is A Pain To Use
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#27 You Could Have At Least Put The Bowl Under The Faucet
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#28 This Clock In My School’s Gym
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#29 My Grocery Store Removed The “Minute Clinic” And Replaced It With Video Slot Machines
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#30 No Need To Measure … This Also Isn’t A Installation Problem It Appears Multiple Times Throughout The University
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#31 It Took Me Five Minutes To Figure Out How To Activate The Water (You Had To Spin The Golden Tip)
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#32 You Need To Lay Down To Get Into The Door
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#33 This Snow White Sign At The Local Supermarket
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#34 This Random Toilet In The Hall
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#35 “Microwave Ovens” Sign At My Local Electronics Store
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#36 Accessibility Ramp At The Resort I’m Staying At In Mexico
There are a bunch of other awful ramps around the premises, but this is definitely the worst one.
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#37 Saw This At A School
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#38 Braille Script Instead Of Being Embossed, Is Just Printed In Vande Bharat
Serving no purpose at all. What kind of people are taking decisions for Indian Railways?
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#39 When Booking My Ticket, I Was Told I Might Have A Slightly Restricted View. ‘Slightly’ Is A Bit Of An Understatement
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#40 My School Doesn’t Have Stall Doors
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#41 I’ve Been Sitting In The Waiting Room Of This Doctors Office For Over An Hour And This Painting Is Really Making Me Mad
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#42 A Pole Blocks This Aisle’s Path, Meaning You Have To Go The Other Way Around Or Just Don’t Even Bother
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#43 Those Are Stairs
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#44 Msp Airport
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#45 My Hotel’s “Pool Area”
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#46 In A Conference Room At My Work. Yes, The Whiteboard Extends Fully Behind The Beam
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#47 This Is Apparently A Clean Wash Basin
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#48 Location Of A Bench At My School
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#49 This Signage At My Local Cafe
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#50 This Door At My Dentist’s Office
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#51 Not Sure If It Counts, But This Restaurant Put Rocks In Their Sink For -=*aesthetic*=-
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#52 How Do You Even Do That
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#53 Useful Braille Text
context: This small representation of the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Aquileia, Italy was created by the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, its purpose (I presume) was to help blind people understand the shape of the historic church (obviously without success)
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#54 Ceilings In My Highschool Be Like :
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#55 This Chair Is 211 And Not 404
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#56 Yes Boss, I Put The Seats In The Correct Order
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#57 One Way To Hide The Tp
Noticed this bit the ATL airport
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#58 The Way My Work Hung This Smoke Detector? In The Toilets
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#59 Cameras In Locker Room
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#60 A Pillar In The Middle Of A Stairway
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#61 If Only There Was A Way To Number Apartments So You Can Tell What Floor They Are On
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#62 Installed Those Elevator Buttons, Boss
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#63 Odd Doorway Left After Office Reconfigurations [glass Wall Removed, Custom Ceiling Not Restored]
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#64 Both Of These Overlapping Tvs Have The Volume On In The Hospital Waiting Room
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#65 They Way They Laid The Carpet In Our Hotel
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#66 The Alignment Of The Panels In This Elevator
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#67 The Lights At My Dentist
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#68 One Of The Classrooms At My University
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#69 There Are Several Of These At My School And I Am Unlucky Enough To Be Right In The Corner
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#70 Just Nothing Centered Anywhere
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#71 Auditorium Desks At The Top Row Are Very Practial
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#72 Carpet Design At My School That Looks Like Moss!
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#73 Just Typical Classroom
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#74 In A Chinese Restaurant
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#75 Our Gym Has Been Promising Us A New Gym With A Running Track. After An 8 Month Delay, We Finally Got The “Track.”
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#76 The Wallpaper In The Women’s Restroom At The Hotel I’m Staying At
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#77 This Department Stores Accessible Lift Is Up A Set Of Stairs
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#78 These Stairs At An Art Museum Are Horrible. I Have Difficulties In Depth Perception Even If My Eye Sight Is Perfect And I Had To Keep My Hands On The Ramp At All Time. Not The Museum’s Fault
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#79 United Terminal, O’hare Airport, Chicago
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#80 The Floor In My Hallway
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#81 At Glance, The Sign In This Conference Room Looks Like It’s Encouraging Bad Behavior
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#82 “That’s What’s Missing – A Ceiling Mirror! Why Hasn’t Anyone Thought Of This Before?”
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#83 I’ve Had To Stare At It For A Four Hour Layover. Its Just Off Center
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#84 Spent A Little Too Long After A Sleepy Drive Trying To Find The Snacks Section
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#85 Wallpaper In Our School Is In German, We Neither Are In Germany Or Learning German
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#86 All Public Restrooms In America Seem To Be Like This – Why Bother Having A Door If It Doesn’t Cover You?
This isn’t the worst I’ve seen/used. I’m just tired of it and mildly infuriated.
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#87 Questionable Outlet Placement
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#88 I Mean If You Insist
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#89 Instead Of Pressing The Button, People Pressed The Instructions
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#90 The Doors Open The Other Way Around
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#91 Construction Going On At My Office. As Far As I Can Tell They Installed A New Lightswitch But Just Slapped The Old Plate Over It
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#92 Whoever Designed These 45° Angle Things For Gwr Trains Is Evil. Where Am I Supposed To Put My Foot?!
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#93 My Hospital Got New Floors Installed
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#94 Big Steps In A Toilet Cubicle In A Mall. Safe To Say I Fell As I Was Walking To The Door After Turning To Flush
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#95 A Useful Staircase At The Mall
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#96 I Love Being Forced To Watch Ads Before Being Able To See What Drinks A Store Has…
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#97 This Transparent Toilet Door In An Office Building. No, It’s Not One Of The Fancy Ones That Go Opaque When Closed
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#98 (Oc) Toilets For Disabled People Are Located Upstairs In A Restaurant In Stockholm
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#99 This Movie Theater Makes The High Prices Of Its Concessions Impossible To Read, Even From The Counter
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#100 This Is Right Outside A Hotel Lobby Bathroom. The Painting Is Even A Wooden Bench
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