1. The ugliest building in the world? I like it; Michael Blowhard doesn’t.
2. Which is the ad and which is the painting?
3. Prediction markets in future tax rates, via Chris Masse
5. Newly translated interview with Borges
6. Via Jacqueline Passey, a new blog on strange products
Finally, Cowen makes an assertion where I can say “I disagree with Tyler Cowen and I know I’m right”.
Wow, Boston City Hall is bad…it looks Soviet. I was expecting some quaint building from the colonial era. How can Boston, of all places, have such a non-historic city hall?
Christopher Monnier,
Good question. I ask myself the same thing every day. That monstrosity is right outside my office window, occupying prime real estate about 1/4 mile from the water, right in the heart of city.
CP
We already have prediction markets in future tax rates. Its called the municipal bond yield curve.
Will, I love those buildings (though my wife does not). Seriously.
I’ve actually seen that hotel up close. It absolutely dominates the Pyongyang skyline, but propaganda pictures avoid including it. It’s amazing – you can still see the cranes up top even though work stopped two decades ago.
I would say that I like it, because though it appears like a hotel hovering over a failed, dystopian, autocratic state, North Korea is among the places where such an appearance is apt!
Good location. What do I win?
Doug, Yes but you need to look at the spread to taxable bonds, and that spread has basis risk with respect to future tax rates. Also what is the carry to go long or short taxes that way? If you have put on such trades, drop me a line.
Eliot Hall, Washington University: also ugly, with a staircase attached to it that’s been condemned, but not before bits of concrete started falling off of it.
I could spend all day posting hideous campus architecture. Gross Chemical Lab at Duke would be another serious contender.
I think that the Ryugyong Hotel at least would be decent looking if it were finished. At the very least it is bold.
For something more like what you would expect from an unihabitable, abandoned, totalitarian edifice with serious engineering flaws, my money is on the House of Soviets in Kaliningrad. (Though, they have made some efforts to finish it and make some use of it in the past two years.)
Alex: it looks like it could make a good setting for a video game.
I could like Boston City Hall, just not in Boston.
The most disappointing building to me is the Center for Innovative Technology just beyond Dulles airport. I thought it was a great building until they spoiled it by putting the logo on several sides, roughly a year ago. I can’t find photos of it with the logo, probably because no one wants to take pictures of it anymore.
Maybe they just got tired of people driving over there to find out what it was. ::cough::
Augmenting the list of awful campus building, walking through the Pollock Halls at Penn State always made me feel like I was in East Berlin in 1974.
Generally speaking, the School of Architecture building on any major university campus is an automatic contender. If they don’t have an Architecture department, then the Art building is likely to be hideous. For example, the Art department building on the Claremont University campus looks like they excavated Hitler’s Bunker and reassembled it aboveground in the California sunshine.
I’m sure Tyler would like it.
As said before, schools of architecture are generally situated in ugly buildings. The Stockholm school of architecture is often voted as the ugliest builfing in town:
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I found the blog at the link quite a bit uglier than the building.
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