Sinister buildings

[Neville Chamberlain]

The most sinister buildings for me are burnt-down houses that have been left to rot. Once cosy, private family homes full of love, life and laughter, now empty, silent and destroyed.






Still, good news about the chocolate oranges!

[Blue Jam]

But as far as sinister buildings go, the Ryugyong Hotel, PyongYang, North Korea takes a lot of beating:



It stands completely empty.

Good one. I can't decide if the glass panels make it look more sinister or less sinister. It's gone from "dystopian sci fi scenery based on crumbling former communist architecture" to "top secret spy base":





In any case, it apparently has 1,000 empty rooms and I can't imagine it will ever be fully booked. Donald Trump may stay there at some point though...

[Paul Calf]

He'll buy it, have it knocked down and build one with 9000 rooms. Made of gold.

[Crisps?]

Everyone knows it, but since it's great, Denver Airport, where evil construction continues to this day, with the "Great Hall Project".

As with Donald Rumsfeld, they can't deny the accusations so have to sarcastically admit it all.

https://www.flydenver.com/great_hall/denfiles

[buzby]

Everyone knows it, but since it's great, Denver Airport, where evil construction continues to this day, with the "Great Hall Project".

As with Donald Rumsfeld, they can't deny the accusations so have to sarcastically admit it all.

https://www.flydenver.com/great_hall/denfiles

During the current construction work on the Great Hall They found the 25-year-old concrete floor slab was constructed to a lower load rating than the design specified, which meant there was a risk any heavy equipment that had to be brought in might cause a collapse.
https://www.enr.com/articles/46407-denver-airports-renovator-uncovers-potential-snag

[buzby]

[holyzombiejesus]

What are those golf ball buildings?

[Mr_Simnock]

They are Radome's

[buzby]

What are those golf ball buildings?

They are Radome's

Specifically the one on the TF sleeve is the radome covering the receiver dish at RAF Balado Bridge, a former NATO SATCOM II satellite ground station near Kinross that closed in 2006 and the site was sold by the MOD in 2007. The disused airfield it was part of hosted T In The Park from 1997 to 2014. The ground station site was back on the market last year for £950k.

A couple of other of Donald Milne's photographs used on their Songs From Northern Britain-era sleeves could qualify for this thread - for example Ain't That Enough

used Torness Nuclear Power Station:

[jobotic]

[gilbertharding]

Ah yes - the Pentagram Centre in the background there.

[buzby]

Cobra Mist:

[SteveDave]

When I was in high school, there was a red brick, windowless tower that backed onto the very edge of our playing field. Walking passed it at night brought the heebeejeebees even as an adult.

Doing a Google Streetview of it now, it's been converted into a house (or sutin). What freak would choose to live in there though I don't know. It's at 63 Cyncoed Road in Cardiff if you want to see it.

[buzby]

When I was in high school, there was a red brick, windowless tower that backed onto the very edge of our playing field. Walking passed it at night brought the heebeejeebees even as an adult.

Doing a Google Streetview of it now, it's been converted into a house (or sutin). What freak would choose to live in there though I don't know. It's at 63 Cyncoed Road in Cardiff if you want to see it.

It's an ex-water tower, converted into a large house in 2007. It was up for for sale in 2013 for £1.25million
http://davidhillarchitecture.co.uk/watertower

[holyzombiejesus]

Specifically the one on the TF sleeve is the radome covering the receiver dish at RAF Balado Bridge, a former NATO SATCOM II satellite ground station near Kinross that closed in 2006 and the site was sold by the MOD in 2007. The disused airfield it was part of hosted T In The Park from 1997 to 2014. The ground station site was back on the market last year for £950k.

I fuckin love you, Buzby.

[SteveDave]

It's an ex-water tower, converted into a large house in 2007. It was up for for sale in 2013 for £1.25million
http://davidhillarchitecture.co.uk/watertower

I heard they bricked a monk up in it.

[Hound Of The Basketballs]

[gilbertharding]

This building always gave me the creeps when I used to come to Plymouth. Sad they knocked it down. I loved it.

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/gallery/grain-silo-through-the-years-1059326

Fucking hell that media group... in fact probably ALL websites for local newspapers... who designs them? The adverts make them unusable.

[buzby]

[Blumf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Street_electricity_substation



Typical Brutalism imposing, and an unmistakable aura of 'fuck off', but it's that protuberance in the middle that seals the deal. Looks like it was designed as a podium for a fascist leader to deliver his speeches to a massed rally.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The panopticon prisons in Cuba.

[jobotic]

Ah yes - the Pentagram Centre in the background there.

That's the sinister one.

[Dr Syntax Head]

This one got attacked once apparently. Someone tried to invade it.

[buzby]

This one got attacked once apparently. Someone tried to invade it.

When the sea forts were being used as bases for pirate radio in the 60s their owners would send boarding parties to attack each other's stations to take the competition off air fairly regularly.

[Replies From View]

That's Old Zealand there.  Looking very rundown isn't it conpared to the newer one that Peter Jackson films in.

[Chollis]

[Twed]

That's that big boring mazey place from Fallout 4.

[Replies From View]

That's that big boring mazey place from Fallout 4.

Or the Industrial Zone from the Crystal Maze.

[SteveDave]

When the sea forts were being used as bases for pirate radio in the 60s their owners would send boarding parties to attack each other's stations to take the competition off air fairly regularly.

Like in "Slade In Flame"!

[gilbertharding]

The remaining Army Forts used to be prominently visible from Whitstable, but nowadays they're harder to pick out amongst the wind turbines. On a clear day with binoculars you can also see Knock John Fort, which is the only other remaining Navy Fort (looks like Sealand, which is off Harwich).

I had no idea that most of the accommodation is in the actual concrete LEGS of the Navy Forts (ie mostly below the waterline). I think the expression I'm looking for is 'Fuck that'.

Especially now they're nearly 80 years old.