THE TWO UGLIEST BUILDINGS IN OSAKA
Vice Japan’s translator is out this morning, so please bear with the language for a few minutes.
Above weird building is a sewage plant in Osaka designed by Vienna artist Friedrich Stowasser. Do you want to know how much building cost is? 80 billion yen. In English, that is 925 million dollars. So what you might spend on, say, a new Pakistani embassy, the entire yearly infrastructure budget of Massachusetts, or Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen network (if you are NBC), we spend on hilarious shit factories. But it is not the most poor-taste disposal center in Osaka.
That title is held by this veiny-cocked monstrosity, designed for the city by… Friedrich Stowasser. Oh well. At least this one only cost us 60 billion yen (combined campaign cost of the 2004 US presidential election). Look, we know you all think Japanese society is obsessed with cuteness and bodily functions and turning everything into cartoons, but that doesn’t mean you can just stick us with the Austrian version of Zurab Tsereteli. This is completely not suitable.
Anonymous, on Dec 5, 2009 wrote:
hundertwasser not stowasser;
he is awesome |
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Anonymous, on Dec 2, 2009 wrote:
Those are revolting. I don’t care how much they cost, though. |
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| Mason, on Dec 1, 2009 wrote:
I want to go on the log flume ride. |
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| rufiomania, on Dec 1, 2009 wrote:
is this the same architect that made the BLUE apartments in manhattan? |
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Anonymous, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
I love it, but Art is always a very thin line of love and hate. |
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Anonymous, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
I sort of like that fun factory? |
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| backtobabylon, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
the disneyland of sewage plants! |
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| halzer, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
it’s like a stubbier penis building version of the sunsphere in knoxville, tn. |
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Anonymous, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
True. The stadium in Detroit went for under $600K but what are you going to do with it? You can’t get anyone to come fill it up. Unless you want the home with the world’s largest utility bills or are going to turn it into your own BioDome (actually that sounds kind of cool) then there’s no real point. |
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Anonymous, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
I’ve seen uglier. I’ve been to Detroit. Cheap ugly - they just sold a STADIUM for about six months rent anywhere else in the world - but big losers in the charm and whimsy departments. |
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Anonymous, on Nov 30, 2009 wrote:
"That title is held by this veiny-cocked monstrosity..."
I LOVE transliteration. |
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