Areas of unusual ugliness

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swittle Jan 2020 9:22pm, 18 Jan 2020 60,364 posts	0 swittle Seems to have been built for maximum visibility of the approaches to Liverpool. There were plans to demolish it and build an 'exclusive' restaurant, in the style of those in the Gulf States but nothing came of them.
Dvorak Jan 2020 9:29pm, 18 Jan 2020 18,731 posts	0 Dvorak I quite like it. Think it should be painted in jolly stripes.
swittle Jan 2020 9:32pm, 18 Jan 2020 60,366 posts	0 swittle I'd go with that. Here is one of five cocoa warehouses in Liverpool Freeport, a quarter of a mile from the port radar station. A community project a few years ago transformed a dull building into a brief pictorial history of Waterloo.
Jono. Jan 2020 10:29am, 19 Jan 2020 6,600 posts	0 Jono. It does look like a watch tower from N Ireland swittle, I like Dvoraks suggestion - dazzle pattern?
swittle Jan 2020 11:47am, 19 Jan 2020 60,369 posts	0 swittle Oh, it'll not win any gongs for aesthetic beauty, Jono, that's for sure, so a paint job would help. Was thinking this morning how many hundreds of millions of tons of cargo, and millions of crew have come and gone more safely because it was built.
NDWDave Apr 2022 6:39pm, 5 Apr 2022 16,691 posts	0 NDWDave
Derby Tup Apr 2022 6:53pm, 5 Apr 2022 54,995 posts	0 Derby Tup Dvorak’s offering makes your latest look like somewhere the Darling Buds of May would holiday NDW
NDWDave Apr 2022 7:26pm, 5 Apr 2022 16,692 posts	0 NDWDave Yep. I’ve gone through the thread again and Dvorak is still winning
Derby Tup Apr 2022 8:26pm, 5 Apr 2022 54,996 posts	0 Derby Tup That will take some besting (worsting)
NDWDave Jun 2022 7:30pm, 10 Jun 2022 16,894 posts	0 NDWDave