The Most Horrible Perth Building Designs Over The Decades

[SingaporeSaint]

I am torn between the Police Station on St Catherines and the Bus Station on St Leonards. Plenty of other 70's type monstrosities out there in the Fair City which we should be ashamed of.

[Jings]

The flat opposite the Drum Store in Melville Street.

Won awards for design too

[Steve Zissou]

I am torn between the Police Station on St Catherines and the Bus Station on St Leonards. Plenty of other 70's type monstrosities out there in the Fair City which we should be ashamed of.

 

Add to that Perth High School. Not much better inside!

[SingaporeSaint]

_{In fact was the whole of St Leonard Street designed to be one 70's hell hole ???? From the entrance of the railway station to hitting the South Street, must of made thousands of tourists wonder why they came to something that looked worse than Chernobyle on a bad day.}   

[blueheaven]

Perth City Hall. King of the public eyesores.

[Gort]

Those skarne blocks in Whitfield must have been designed by a headcase, they turned into an utter disaster after only a few years. Horrible place.

[slf]

the new bridge at the choo choo station

[mogs1968]

I hate the police station and any of the new builds.

[Carron]

The police station looks like bits of polystyrene stacked up on top of each other, a 1970's design.

[mogs1968]

in Dundee, which is improving immensly, the Apex, police station, should be ripped down. Any new build consisting of  light wooden frontages.Which there are a few here.

[rik2304]

All of Muirton. And Perth High School.

[Wendy Saints]

The flat opposite the Drum Store in Melville Street.

Won awards for design too

Don't think it is a flat? Is it not a gallery/art studio! Mind you whichever way you look at it ..the building isn't in keeping with those around it!

[canuck_saint]

All of Muirton. And Perth High School.

and north muirton, hunters, letham etc etc etc

[Jings]

Don't think it is a flat? Is it not a gallery/art studio! Mind you whichever way you look at it ..the building isn't in keeping with those around it!

 

You're right there,"The Practice Studio", whatever that is?  God awful monstrosity from the outside.

 

http://fwparchitect.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/hello-world/

[Fair Maid]

You're right there,"The Practice Studio", whatever that is?  God awful monstrosity from the outside.

 

http://fwparchitect.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/hello-world/

 

That is a ugly and does not blend in.  How the feck did that get accepted in planning.  Yeah sure, the pollce station, etc, is a horrible building but at least it is a stand-alone and was trendy in it's heyday but that thing.  Mad.  There should be a law that if it is sited on an infill site then a building should be similar to those on either side.

[andy rhodes fancy watch]

Perth does have a serious lack of decent architecture , especially as it's so old . Add to that the locals are not very welcoming and a bit clique , its city centre has an abundance of struggling/shite shops . Suppose that's why a lot move away.

[mogs1968]

I am not opposed to new buildings if they look good and blend in. I also like old buildings, but i really dont think in Britain we get it right.

[canuck_saint]

the GA building at pitheavlis which is about 7 stories but rolls down the hillside, and has little impact, is a superb building. insulation from the ground, limited visual impact, as opposed to a 7 storey high building, green roofs - a bui;ding perth can be proud of, 30 years ahead of its time.

if only it had faced south

whats it now, a glorified call centre

[THE LARK SAINT]

All of Muirton. And Perth High School.

All of Muirton-Screw You!!

[andy rhodes fancy watch]

muirton is/was a shithole. badly designed houses/environment, let alone numerous other social ills

Muirton was not badly designed . The actual houses were big inside , the street layout and garden areas as well as football pitch/playparks at the back of tenaments was exactly what was needed in those times . What eventually let the area down was the people who lived there , excluding good sorts like lark saint of course .

[mogs1968]

Hey guys, its okay slagging of the schemes and yes none of them are very good to look at, and that goes for Western Edge, Cherrybank etc, but people live in these places, its their homes, we all didn't get brought up in mansions on Kinnoull Hill. 

[HOODLUM65]

Hey guys, its okay slagging of the schemes and yes none of them are very good to look at, and that goes for Western Edge, Cherrybank etc, but people live in these places, its their homes, we all didn't get brought up in mansions on Kinnoull Hill. 

[HOODLUM65]

Hey Mogs , like your tan. Been somewhere nice?

[mogs1968]

Hey Mogs , like your tan. Been somewhere nice?

no old pic, was on my way to Hampden in this one, and the tan was false...

[Saint Pomarium of Flats]

I am not opposed to new buildings if they look good and blend in. I also like old buildings, but i really dont think in Britain we get it right.

 

The problem with blending in to Perth's city centre is that most of the buildings there are, frankly, ****ing atrocious. They look nice from 25 metres away, but if you go inside they're uniformly cramped, dark, malodorous, damp, mouldy, under-maintained and laden with pigeon shite and insects - and usually ****ing confusing to get around in, too, from greedy private landlords trying to make five flats from one. From too many years spent delivering, debt-collecting and palling about with reprobates I've grown thoroughly weary of climbing up a spiral stairway designed for a 19th century midget, in the pitch dark, only to knock on a door that barely fits in a warped and mouldy frame. Much rather something like yon thing on Melville Street or the new build on St. Leonard's, that might not be the most aesthetically pleasing edifice in the world but at least is insulated, well-lit, dry and spacious. Far too many crumbling shitholes in Perth kept crumbling by the fetishizing of their "character" and "tradition".

 

That being said, the worst building in Perth is that one house on the Argyll Road with the keyhole-shaped stone cladding. Everyone associated with that should be strung up.

Edited March 24, 2013 by Saint Pomarium of Flats