Ugly Belgian Houses

As a Belgian I am amused by this, and I felt like sharing with everyone here the good taste us Belgians have:

http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com

lol

I kind of like the first one you posted though. It reminds me of one of those folded drawings where you don't see what the first person drew and you continue the drawing. Know what I mean? Somebody drew the roof, then someone drew the second floor and then somone drew the first floor, without having any idea how the rest of the building looked.

  On 10/29/2013 at 11:46 PM, Gocab said:

lol

 

I kind of like the first one you posted though.

Yeah, the ones that look like they smashed two old houses together can look pretty interesting. But that modern stuff, yikes.

yeah but you should see the stuff we have inside the house

Lol, Armand rocks.

Belgian houses too (and roads, and everything else because everything is either brown or grey in Belgium), they are one of our fave attractions when cruising through Belgium.

I think they look awesome, in a post-modernist kind of way. You don't see postmodern anymore on houses, logically, so it's important to keep them part of our architectural history (1970-1990). Tacky doesn't mean ugly necessary.

The entrance to that last one looks like a Krell doorway out of Forbidden Planet.

Also, no need to worry about them going extinct, new ones like these are still being built all over the place.

I just bought this house!!!! the house is about 150 years old but inside everything is autechre, and i have a garden and no neighbours that can hear our shit

  On 10/30/2013 at 12:45 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

and i have a garden and no neighbours that can hear our shit

But don't you live right next to a forest that is used as a gay dogging site?

Can you hear them sometimes?

  On 10/30/2013 at 12:47 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 10/30/2013 at 12:45 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

and i have a garden and no neighbours that can hear our shit

But don't you live right next to a forest that is used as a gay dogging site?

 

Can you hear them sometimes?

 

no i have 5.1 speakers

Dude, people pay hella big bucks for architects to come up with stuff like that for their new modern home in gentrified neighborhoods here in Austin. Except it's way less funky and more IKEA-y: http://austinmodernliving.com/agave-austin-nine-sixty-nine-969-modern-homes.php

I kind of like these, you don't see such 60s, 70s, and 80s homes like that in Texas: some existed but most of them were torn down and replaced.

The text is the best thing about that blog

Lol, at least some of these are bizarre and naff but not drab and depressing and hideous...

btw,

http://badbritisharchitecture.blogspot.com

  On 10/29/2013 at 11:44 PM, triachus said:

lool

^^^lol

Quite a few potentially awesome houses there, but Mubarak's house in Belgium is just...

http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/post/63812671614/i-think-mubarak-fled-to-belgium

I would love to see these houses around. I hate cookie cutter houses. I'd rather look at an aesthetically offensive house with a wild design than an aesthetically inoffensive house that looks like every other house on the block.

THIS is what an ugly house looks like:

what's that sign/mirror/whatever in the first image? Looks like whatever is on the cover of this O Rang album:

  On 10/30/2013 at 5:58 AM, goDel said:

Quite a few potentially awesome houses there, but Mubarak's house in Belgium is just...

http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/post/63812671614/i-think-mubarak-fled-to-belgium

I want to live in a pyramid too!

dayum wish i had sims so i could make my own belgium full of weird tiny belgian houses

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:14 AM, modey said:

what's that sign/mirror/whatever in the first image? Looks like whatever is on the cover of this O Rang album:

no one goes to Belgium to look at the house my friend.

Few streets from here (yes this is finished)

I hate the "traditional" Quackels houses

Horrible hotel in Antwerp

  On 10/30/2013 at 11:40 AM, Ego said:

Few streets from here (yes this is finished)

 

Ah, this is in Kontich! Drove by it yesterday.

I like most of these houses...seen much uglier in the UK on circa 1970s housing estates and the like.