Ugly Belgian Houses

[triachus]

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Silent Member]

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.

[triachus]

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.

[Ivan Ooze]

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

 

[Herr Jan]

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.

[Bob Dylan]

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.

[manmower]

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.

[Ivan Ooze]

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

 

[triachus]

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?

[Ivan Ooze]

 

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

[joshuatxuk]

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.

[Squee]

The text is the best thing about that blog

[poblequadrat]

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

 

btw,

http://badbritisharchitecture.blogspot.com

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

[Ivan Ooze]

lool

[goDel]

^^^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

[Guest cult fiction]

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:

 

 

[modey]

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

[zkom]

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!

[Guest boo]

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

[Friendly Foil]

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

They're usually placed in turns where it can be hard to see what's coming up. Very handy.

[MadameChaos]

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

[Ego]

Few streets from here (yes this is finished)

 

I hate the "traditional" Quackels houses

 

Horrible hotel in Antwerp

[t yst r]

Few streets from here (yes this is finished)

 

 

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

[BCM]

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