Jilin’s own take on brutalism: A 17 storey, half-concrete monstrosity

Move over, 80-meter giant colon tower, there’s a new guy in town competing for most aesthetically displeasing architectural achievement of all time, adding to the already well established collection of heinous buildings in China.

This residential building can be found in Changchun Road in Jinlin City. The first five floors are constructed purely with concrete while the rest of the building resembles a red and yellow lego creation put together by a child who forgot to do his school project until two hours before class. Kudos for the wooden traditional doors for the building entrance though for attempting to make the building just just that wee bit less demoralisingly bleak.
By Mandy Liang

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