Growing up, I watched countless hours of HGTV with my mother. I also tagged along to dozens of open houses, even when we weren’t planning on moving any time soon. She loved looking at homes and critiquing their designs, and I would pretend to have an opinion while snacking on the complimentary cookies realtors put out for guests.

Today, I still don’t know very much about architecture or what makes a great building. But you don’t need to have much technical knowledge to be able to spot a monstrosity. We took a trip to the That’s It, We’re Architecture Shaming Facebook group and gathered some of their most atrocious pics below. From office buildings that look like they could fall down at any moment to bizarre bungalows, enjoy scrolling through these photos. And be sure to upvote the ones you can’t believe an architect signed off on!

#1 When Your Clients Are Dipsy And Laa-Laa From Teletubbies So That Their Antennas Won’t Hit The Door Header

Image credits: Jillian Lin

#2 This

Image credits: Kevin Miller

#3 When You Really Love Columns

Image credits: Jess Cruz Almero

That’s It, We’re Architecture Shaming has only been around since July 2024, but the community has already amassed an impressive 28K members. It has a simple goal, as it’s described as a “silly shaming group for people who want to point and laugh at terrible buildings!” And it’s clear that the members won’t run out of content any time soon.

There’s been 74 new posts in the group in the past month, and 72 new members joined in the last week. It’s a wholesome community that’s not meant to hurt anyone’s feelings, but they are looking to get a kick out of some of the questionable and creative choices that architects around the world have made. Perhaps this list will even inspire you to join and start posting photos of homes you drive past every day that make you wonder, “Who the heck designed that?”   

#4 Is It Just Me Or Does This Look Like Somebody Gave It A Boot In The Rear?

Image credits: Rene Kreis

#5 Oh Dear. Lv Just Went Full Longaberger Basket. What Do We Think, Team? Neat, Or Too Literal?

Image credits: Jeremy Anderson

#6 Apartment Building In Poland

Image credits: Bang Chris Yan

As with most things, you can easily argue that design is subjective. Sure, your house might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean that it’s objectively ugly or bad. Right? Well, some architects would say that objectively bad choices definitely do exist. And according to Vera Iconica Architecture, there are a few reasons why making good design decisions is important.

First of all, architecture is a great way to create beauty. Everyone wants to live in an environment that’s pleasant to look at, so having gorgeous homes, offices, government buildings, etc. surrounding you can have a huge impact on how you feel while moving through the world.  

#7 Hi All! I Just Wanted To Introduce Myself And Share A Photo I Took Today. All I Can Say Is It’s Well Built

Image credits: Lisa Asher

#8 I Saw This While In The Detroit Area Last Week. Not Sure What To Say. Not Sure What They Were Thinking

Image credits: Eric Woodfin

#9 It’s Located In… Christchurch! More Info In Comments

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

Filling your city with stunning architecture is also a great way to attract tourists. People travel from all over the world to see the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids, Sacré-Cœur, the Empire State Building and more. If your city invests in beautiful buildings, the entire globe will want to appreciate them. 

At the same time, these buildings can be a great way to show different cultures to the rest of the world. Nowadays, we can find generic buildings popping up everywhere, but if your country or city has a specific design style, it will always be unique and representative of what life there is like.     

#10 Look, If You’ve Got A Useless Space, Might As Well Make It Interesting!

Image credits: Marissa Richardson

#11 Unknown Location (Seen On Several Polish Pages, But Not Sure It’s In Poland)

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#12 Valley Architecture, Design By Mvrdv In Amsterdam

Image credits: Bang Chris Yan

Good architecture can also increase residents’ quality of life. When people are surrounded by well designed spaces, they are encouraged to spend time in them, rather than just bolt home as fast as they can right after work. When architecture puts wellness first, Vera Iconica notes that people are inspired to build stronger communities. At the same time, office buildings that have plenty of natural light, good air and water quality, great ventilation, and thoughtful design can have a huge impact on how employees feel while working.     

#13 Can You Make It More Diagonal?

Image credits: Matias Galarraga Green

#14 Get A Load Of This Beauty!

The addition is bad enough… the paint job adds a lot.

Image credits: Fran Allison

#15 I Don’t Think This Is Decorated Right. Not My Listing Nor Photo

Image credits: Kirsten Tautfest

And if you’re one of the 136 million Americans who commutes to work every morning, having a pleasant journey can greatly impact how you feel when starting your day. I typically take one route to work in the morning by bus and a different route while walking home in the evening, and I always enjoy taking a moment to admire the stunning buildings and river my city has to offer. Humans want to live in beautiful places, and we should be afforded that luxury.  

#16 This Is Mostly The Color. That… Salmon? Paired With That Gray. It Just Looks So Weird And Wrong

Image credits: Sami Kuhmonen

#17 It’s Like Someone Dropped A Tiny House Into A Monolith. The Tiny House Looks Cozy, But What’s Going On In The Rest Of That Sad, Dark Space? Nice Sunset, Though

Image credits: Dianna Scofield

#18 Ammanauz Hotel, Dombai, Russia, Built 1982-85. Abandoned

Image credits: Leoghann MacAlister

On the other hand, Architizer notes on their site that bad architecture might actually be harmful for our health. They provide examples of reflective buildings that become extremely hot when hit with sunlight or buildings that harm us indirectly, such as filling us with negative feelings. For example, if you look out your living room window to see an ugly, huge grey building that blocks all sunlight from your street, you might not be too happy to open the shades. 

#19 When You Can’t Tell Where The Original House Starts And Ends

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#20 His Keeps Popping Up In My Feed For Ages.. (Stupidly I Clicked It That Probably Isnt Helping) I Guess They Are Having Trouble Selling This Hotel/Chapel

Image credits: Ently Lamar

#21 I Appreciate Reusing Existing Fascia And Structure… But Wow That’s Ugly

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

Bad architecture can also be harmful when it’s simply confusing. If you can’t find the front door, can’t navigate through the building without feeling like you’re in a labyrinth or have to walk up an extremely narrow flight of stairs to reach your office, you probably won’t be thrilled about visiting that space. It’s important that architects keep aesthetics, functionality and how people will feel about the environment in mind when designing a building.   

#22 “You Like My Plans, Boss?”

“Nah. Too big. Cut off half.”
“But, boss, there’s no front door now.”
“Just tack one on the side.”
“Something doesn’t look right.”
“Add a window above the door. Folks love windows.”
“It still seems a little off . . .”
“No matter. Someone’ll buy it. Bet we can get half a million.”

Image credits: Dianna Scofield

#23 They’ll Say It’s AI. Because It Makes Absolutely No Sense And It’s Unbelievable Someone Would Design And Build This. Welp, They Would Be Wrong. No Level Walls Or Surfaces Anywhere!

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#24 Pretty

Image credits: Laura Andres

Are you enjoying these photos of atrocious buildings, pandas? Keep upvoting the ones you can’t believe are real, and feel free to call out any more buildings you hate in the comments below. Then, if you’re interested in even more structures that deserve to be shamed, you can find another Bored Panda list on the same topic right here!

#25 My Daughter Captioned This, “I Want Six Of Every Shape Window You Have

Image credits: Christie James

#26 What The Hap Is Fuckening In This Doctor’s Office

Image credits: Chelsea May-Jones

#27 For The Fans Of Symmetry Here. Located In A Small Town In Oklahoma. Taken By My Appraiser/Boss

Image credits: Kirsten Tautfest

#28 Found This On Zillow In North Texas. Can’t Decide What’s Worse, The Window Placement Or The Siding Inset On The Front/Center Of Each Unit

Image credits: Jamie Kosich

#29 Never Loved The Blocky Split Levels That Are Cloned All Over The Pnw, And I Personally Think These Colors Make The Blockiness Worse. Esp Paired With Brick. Portland, Or

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#30 Long Time Lurker Of The Other Group (Just Realized It Got Taken Over) First Time Poster – This Is Certainly A Design Choice

Image credits: Charles Cramblit

#31 I Actually Love This Home

Image credits: Lolita Potts

#32 House In The Orchard, Prague, Czech Republic

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#33 Prepping For Doomsday In Belgium

Image credits: Margit Klumpers

#34 Are My Eyes Playing With Me?! 🎸 The Worst Part? This Build Doesn’t Have A Kitchen

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#35 Seems Legit

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#36 Stolen From Another Page. Imagine Chillin On Your Indoor Balcony

Image credits: Leo Hesser

#37 The Sad Renovations Done In 2012 To The 16th Century Caldwell Tower In Scotland. The Addition Is Still There To This Day

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#38 The Mind Reels

Image credits: Robin Rogers

#39 This

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#40 Driving Recently In Hartford, Connecticut, I Was Stuck At A Red Light Across From The Hartford Water Department Building. The Longer I Sat There, The More I Was Brutalized By The Brutalism

Image credits: Aaron Emke

#41 The Fireplace In Little Moreton Hall (Built Between 1504 And 1610) Looks Wonky, But It’s Actually Completely Straight. It’s The Rest Of The Room That’s Out Of Whack – It’s One Of The Wonkiest Buildings In England

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#42 We Should Have Used Better Glue

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#43 Putting This In This Page Too. Abomination In Fayetteville, Ar. If It’s Gonna Be Bland Why Not At Least Be Symmetrical??

Image credits: Connor Gwin

#44 Kaiser-Permanente Building In Timonium, Maryland With (In My Humble Opinion) Absolutely Hideous Exterior Cladding

Image credits: Aaron Emke

#45 Step Right Up! Or…down

Image credits: Shawn Livingston

#46 Container Castle

Image credits: Tamara McDonnell

#47 From An Apartment/Hoa Group

Image credits: Amber L Kier

#48 In Austin Tx

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#49 What A Piece Of Ship!

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#50 I Can’t Hack That It’s Not Symmetrical And The Solar Panels Have Just Added To The Issue

Image credits: Rozwellia Cartereii

#51 You Can’t Convince Me That A Human Being Ever Actually Lived In This

Image credits: Jeffrey Adam Danyleyko

#52 Just Saw This On Another Page, Thought Of This Page

Image credits: Elliot JA

#53 King Of The Cabinet

Image credits: Gary Salata

#54 No One Needs To Access The Bedroom Anyways, Right?

Image credits: Holly Ann Horton

#55 What In The…. Looks Like Someone Couldn’t Pick A Design

Image credits: Elizabeth Ohling

#56 Not Even Shaming, I’m Actually Impressed That Whoever Had The Idea Managed To Get It Through All The Funding, Permits, And Approvals Necessary To Pull It Off. It’s The Inntel Hotel In Zaandam, Netherlands

Image credits: Ovi Grigorescu

#57 I Hate To See When Bad Paint Happens To Good Houses

This used to belong to my great-grandparents and my mother swears it was painted differently in the 40s.

Image credits: Andrea Lubawy

#58 A Pyramid Office Building. All Roof

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#59 I Always Giggle When I Walk By This House. What Do You Think Of The Decreasing Blue Triangles Over The Front Door?

Image credits: Laura Magu

#60 Found On X

Image credits: Nicholas Stauffer

#61 Being So Bold To Believe You Could Build Homes, Let Alone Giant Homes, On A Literal Beach, Is The Pinnacle Of Hubris

Outer Banks, North Carolina: six homes have collapsed already

Image credits: Alicia Mariah Elfving

#62 A Contemporary Take On Traditional Nordic Architecture

Image credits: Bang Yin

#63 Unusual Brickwork Hate It Or Love It? Sienna Appartments, 2019 – Hyderabad, India

Image credits: Sandra Segal

#64 Waka Waka Waka!

Image credits: Marissa Richardson

#65 Who Tf Thought This Design Was A Good Idea???

Image credits: Courtney Nicole Miller

#66 Welcome To My Home Milady

Image credits: Jason Cunningham

#67 Hi All! I Just Wanted To Introduce Myself And Share Pics Of This Record Of Bad Decision Making I Walk Past Daily

Image credits: Sheila Smith

#68 I Looked Up The Wikipedia Page On Kitsch, And This Is What I Found

Image credits: Oliver Klimek

#69 Imagine Approving The Plans For This Complex?

Image credits: Shelley Lange-Hemenway

#70 This Absolutely Gargantuan Home In My Area (Unfinished) Listed For $1.9 Mil. It’s A Lot To Take In

I feeeeeel like all the money spent on the pool/outdoor area could have been used to finish a hefty portion of the interior, but that’s not my business…
Very tempted to go for a tour just for funsies

Image credits: Bethany Rosenkrans

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