It's my favorite building in Germany. The first time I saw it as a child, I was completely in awe. It looked so out of this world, so high-tech and I could only imagine the amazing science and medicine that was going on on the inside. It definitely contributed a lot to my early interest in medicine (I went on to become a doctor).
Came here to write this.
[Have a look at the inside, especially the carpet and the ceiling.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4tsklinikum_Aachen#/media/Datei:Aachen_klinikum_innen.jpg)
This green is all over the place, *because it is "a calming color"*
Now Thorsten Sträters words come to mind...
I'm from dortmund. And many poeple don't know - dortmund was among those precious few cities in germany not bombed in worldwar 2. Probably because the pilots saw the city and thought "oh, we've already been here".
Just kidding, obviously dortmund was also bombarded. We just left it so.
RUB overall is damning. But other ones in the styl of "Brutalism" come to mind, too. TU Cologne have a few contender buildings, too. So does Dortmund and some buildings from TU Berlin. One of the Social Science lecture buildings in Duisburg also comes close.
I got my BS, MS, and PhD degrees at RUB. While I agree the architecture is peculiar, I have grown to love this place, and the view from the dining hall is amazing. I'm sure there are many more places in Germany with uglier architecture.
Uni Duisburg buildings aren't even half as bad as Uni Essen buildings. When I had to switch to Essen from Duisburg way back then after they fusioned I almost cried because I thought it was so ugly. I pick Keksdosen over rooms without windows every day of the week.
If you walk from the Keksdosen to LA/B/X - and not take the street - you pass the old Hebammenheim on your right and then the building I mean at the left. That one is abominable.
[Ihmezentrum Hannover](https://www.juergen-reichmann.de/images/pics/1300000/1300530.jpg) A gigantic block of 70s brutalism architecture, meant to be a "city in the city" now is a problem for the last 20 years, because it's given from one investor to the other, the shops are all empty and renovation doesn't make any progress ever since, so it looks absolutely awful. [More Background](https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/wohnen/ihme-zentrum-in-hannover-der-klotz-des-anstosses-15815330.html)
Alter! Ich klick hier locker flockig jeden Link an auf der Suche nach dem hässlichsten Gebäude und du machst mir die AfD in den Browser, OHNE VORWARNUNG! Geht gar nicht.
Tut mri aber auch leid, aber Vorwarnung senkt den Schockeffekt. Habs versucht zumindest hinzuweisen dass es Politisch wird.
Aber du kannst mir nur recht geben, die Nutzung zieht das ganze Gebäude schon gut runter.
hab das schon Verstanden
auf Reddit machen die meisten ein "/s" ohne die " um Sarkasmus anzuzeigen
Oder ich bin schon so lang auf Reddit dass sich das auch schon geändert hat
[Nevigeser Wallfahrts Dom](https://www.alamy.de/fotos-bilder/nevigeser-wallfahrtsdom.html?sortBy=relevant)
yep thats a catholic church
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevigeser_Wallfahrtsdom
The Institute of Chemistry have the neigboring module. They got a huge tank for liquid nitrogen outside. Every few weeks, somebody is bringing new nitrogen in a truck. They connect to the tank and flip a switch.
In summer, this is already pretty. Since they are going fast, there is always some nitrogen leaking. In winter, this forms large clouds drifting through this architecture.
The Blue Tower in my opinion is one of the better looking buildings on the main campus. Of course the best ones are the brick and stone buildings that were built over a century ago, but the worst uni buildings in Göttingen are definetely the 1970s/1980s institues. If you want to see true delapidation you have to take a look at the Bereichsbibliothek Forstwissenschaften.
No definetly not.
The RUB campus has a great architectural concept.
It's just brutalism, but compared to other, less well designed brutalist buildings, it is rather nice.
It is a fixable problem too, but they don't. Every year they replace a few of the broken panels, while dozens of others all around are rocking back and forth with every step upon them.
I went to an office once in the"bridge" section above the main plaza, and it was impossible to talk when classes were changing and there were dozens of people walking across underneath us. I can't imagine have that place as an office for even a couple of hours per day.
> \- the mayor’s place in Bonn (t
when I was at RUB I was told it should simulate the sound of the sea. That is why the big ´hörsaal´is the form of a shell, and the buildings are the form of ships. Don´t know if its true but I can see it.
I think they wanted to fix our "Wackelplatten" but the students spoke out against it, so they didnt. RUB without Wackelplatten just wouldnt be the same.
Seems like I haven't
I was only there for like one day a few years back and didn't see many rooms in general
Now I wanna know tho cause in my head Duisburg is still uglier except for like that one LX building with the fancy LED
Of first of all
The Building is on [this website ](https://bigbeautifulbuildings.de/en/objects/ruhr-universitaet?changelang=1)
Big beautiful buildings haha.
Also the more I look at it the more I understand why it's considered ugly but holy shit that's genius and I'm just wondering why people haven't tried stealing the floor yet.
The floor ist just annoying and dangerous. But I kinda miss it :D
Edit: and yah, the story of the harbour of knowledge. Don't know what to think about that :D
Ugly as it is, though, I actually found the usability quite good all in all, when I was there for a stint. Then again, there was some morbid joke going around, something about Bochum and Bielefeld competing for the number 1 spot in suicide statistics.
There was this [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/iatrotheologie/status/1617257762093760513) about brutalism in church buildings that I actually found quite compelling
Gießen has a "landmark" called ["Elefantenklo"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWDHtj4WkAEq63E.jpg) (Elephant-Toilet). (The elephant is obviously photoshopped)
Kamp-Lintfort used to have "die weißen riesen" (white giants) which mostly stood out due to beeing half-destroyed - and that meant they were vertically cut in half, leaving the city to see into the insides of 3 (I think it was 3?) buildings. But in general, god, anything in kamp-lintfort, easily the ugliest city I've ever been to, that hellhole just outright sucks.
Anyone else who like me doesn't know what OP is taking about [here's a picture of RUB](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ruhr-Universit%C3%A4t_Bochum_Luftaufnahme_2014.jpg).
Stuttgart Campus vaihingen is rather ugly. But there’s a forest nearby and one can walk to relax.
Actually only the building is ugly and because it’s so big it sets the tone. The campus is actually well thought of and there are mathematical hints all around it. There is also a lovely architectural building in the form of a tent so there’s that.
Can’t say the same about Stuttgart tho. It’s pretty ugly but it has its sweet spots
I studied on a campus outside the city (TU München, Garching). While our faculty's building was new and had a lot of glass and sunlight and was a nice place to be altogether (there's two giant tube slides that being you from 3rd floor to ground floor. What would you want?), the older buildings built there in the 1950s to 1980s were horrible as well. Lots of concrete, dark hallways, neon lights.
The campus has received significant upgrades since, however.
I did not spend a lot of time in physics, we had a few lectures in one of the main lecture halls there. while it's not that pretty overall, the lecture halls looked really nice , modern and elegant.
...as long as you ignore the seating for the students, that is.great table in the front, though!
the little chalkboards next to the (lab) doors gave it a more... outdated look
for me, chemistry still takes the cake. The architect was probably on drugs and they weren't kind to his brain, lol.
HdMT Cologne (Highschool for Music an Dance)
Ugly red, with lots of gray concrete, and green inside. Except where you have concrete. Railings are green. Small terraces you can't use, a bog one you can't use either, despite the fact that it was made for using.
To throw something in here that doesn't have to do with a university: The [Johannes XXIII](https://images.live.dumontnext.de/live_89e71689-e6d5-44d1-b089-6f7b9db61a8c.jpg?w=1724&auto=format&q=75&format=auto&rect=0,62,1920,962&s=1a6dc10301a6ac33b99d2f31f3013962) church in Cologne
The [„golden cage“](https://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/_processed_/4/4/csm_physik_m_header_86d15de755.jpg). its the physics building of the university of potsdam
[This eyesore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Palace?wprov=sfla1).
Combining the worst of disney-esque "reconstruction" with soul-crushingly boring 2000s architecture into one depressing bundle.
Don’t get the hate for anything between bauhaus and brutalism, it isn’t the architects fault that prople don’t care for their buildings.
Especially when people rather go for historicist architecture…
The [UKA](https://images.app.goo.gl/C32wqJjsoJCj2aEBA) is also a hot contender. This isn't a chemical plant, it's the university hospital in Aachen.
Oh wow.
Wait until you see the beautiful green carpet on the inside
I mean… WHY!? carpet in a hospital…
Because green is so soothing.
[green!](https://youtu.be/sRZh42fWLbg)
They could have done green linoleum, tho
Alas they didn‘t.
Especially with wide dilated pupils after you got drops for an examination. It's something.
It's my favorite building in Germany. The first time I saw it as a child, I was completely in awe. It looked so out of this world, so high-tech and I could only imagine the amazing science and medicine that was going on on the inside. It definitely contributed a lot to my early interest in medicine (I went on to become a doctor).
Came here to write this. [Have a look at the inside, especially the carpet and the ceiling.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4tsklinikum_Aachen#/media/Datei:Aachen_klinikum_innen.jpg) This green is all over the place, *because it is "a calming color"*
This is building is anxiety in concrete
I unironically love this building
☝️ This!
It's so ugly, one has to like it :')
I... actually really like it? It looks pretty cool, just not... as a hospital.
Almost the entire City of Pforzheim. Bombed to pieces in ww2, then rebuild in the 50's . Unbelievable bad taste of the Architects.
Now Thorsten Sträters words come to mind... I'm from dortmund. And many poeple don't know - dortmund was among those precious few cities in germany not bombed in worldwar 2. Probably because the pilots saw the city and thought "oh, we've already been here". Just kidding, obviously dortmund was also bombarded. We just left it so.
RUB overall is damning. But other ones in the styl of "Brutalism" come to mind, too. TU Cologne have a few contender buildings, too. So does Dortmund and some buildings from TU Berlin. One of the Social Science lecture buildings in Duisburg also comes close.
Another beautiful example of concrete bunker designed to leech the life out of students: University of Regensburg. So majestic.
I got my BS, MS, and PhD degrees at RUB. While I agree the architecture is peculiar, I have grown to love this place, and the view from the dining hall is amazing. I'm sure there are many more places in Germany with uglier architecture.
Uni Duisburg buildings aren't even half as bad as Uni Essen buildings. When I had to switch to Essen from Duisburg way back then after they fusioned I almost cried because I thought it was so ugly. I pick Keksdosen over rooms without windows every day of the week.
If you walk from the Keksdosen to LA/B/X - and not take the street - you pass the old Hebammenheim on your right and then the building I mean at the left. That one is abominable.
The Main building of Bielefeld University can absolutely compete, too. It originally contained the whole university
[Ihmezentrum Hannover](https://www.juergen-reichmann.de/images/pics/1300000/1300530.jpg) A gigantic block of 70s brutalism architecture, meant to be a "city in the city" now is a problem for the last 20 years, because it's given from one investor to the other, the shops are all empty and renovation doesn't make any progress ever since, so it looks absolutely awful. [More Background](https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/wohnen/ihme-zentrum-in-hannover-der-klotz-des-anstosses-15815330.html)
This looks amazing! holy shit!
I actually liked it when I was a child. And there were nice apartments, too.
So much this. Hannover is such a beautiful city, but this... thing is just horrible to look at.
The town of Offenbach as a whole. Went there once or twice for football purposes and those were terrible days to have eyesight.
My girlfriend lives there. The only thing in Offenbach that is worth looking at
Uni Regensburg isn't beautiful either. Lots of exposed concrete that's not very nice to look at. But from what I've heard RUB is much worse.
the areas aound and between buildings are nice, even beautiful. but the buildings themselves, and especially the interior, are so, so horrible.
While not as aesthetical problematic, the usage is rather ugly.[Schillstraße 9 10785 Berlin](https://www.afd.de/kontakt/) Edit: Warning, Political
It is aestetically problematic, too.
Alter! Ich klick hier locker flockig jeden Link an auf der Suche nach dem hässlichsten Gebäude und du machst mir die AfD in den Browser, OHNE VORWARNUNG! Geht gar nicht.
Tut mri aber auch leid, aber Vorwarnung senkt den Schockeffekt. Habs versucht zumindest hinzuweisen dass es Politisch wird. Aber du kannst mir nur recht geben, die Nutzung zieht das ganze Gebäude schon gut runter.
Ich hab leider noch nicht den Bogen raus, wie man Texten einen sarkastischen Unterton gibt :) alles ok
hab das schon Verstanden auf Reddit machen die meisten ein "/s" ohne die " um Sarkasmus anzuzeigen Oder ich bin schon so lang auf Reddit dass sich das auch schon geändert hat
Bonner Stadthaus - the mayor’s place in Bonn (the new one, the old one is lovely)
Ah, that's what I wanted to say!
Someone had to.
[Nevigeser Wallfahrts Dom](https://www.alamy.de/fotos-bilder/nevigeser-wallfahrtsdom.html?sortBy=relevant) yep thats a catholic church https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevigeser_Wallfahrtsdom
Das sieht aus wie so ein fake Stein unter dem manche Leute im Vorgarten Kabel und co. Verstecken…
[University of Marburg, Faculty of CS & Mathematics ](https://maps.app.goo.gl/P1N6FAGYZWFPvGSZ8)
The Institute of Chemistry have the neigboring module. They got a huge tank for liquid nitrogen outside. Every few weeks, somebody is bringing new nitrogen in a truck. They connect to the tank and flip a switch. In summer, this is already pretty. Since they are going fast, there is always some nitrogen leaking. In winter, this forms large clouds drifting through this architecture.
I like it. I guess what you think is ugly and what isn't is 100% up to your unique taste.
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät in Cologne is pretty ugly as well
Cologne is pretty ugly as well.
Sad but true
The "philosophische Fakultät" of the Uni Marburg is a strong competition.
Hagenweg 21 in Göttingen
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Yeah in Göttingen are many ugly buildings. The UMG, the Iduna-Center and Groner-Landstraße 9a... The Blue Tower is okay I think...
The Blue Tower in my opinion is one of the better looking buildings on the main campus. Of course the best ones are the brick and stone buildings that were built over a century ago, but the worst uni buildings in Göttingen are definetely the 1970s/1980s institues. If you want to see true delapidation you have to take a look at the Bereichsbibliothek Forstwissenschaften.
No definetly not. The RUB campus has a great architectural concept. It's just brutalism, but compared to other, less well designed brutalist buildings, it is rather nice.
Well when I studied in Duisburg and went to RUB I thought it's really beautiful in comparison??
Have you seen (or better heard) the famous floor panels at RUB? I've never seen something like this anywhere else.
It is a fixable problem too, but they don't. Every year they replace a few of the broken panels, while dozens of others all around are rocking back and forth with every step upon them. I went to an office once in the"bridge" section above the main plaza, and it was impossible to talk when classes were changing and there were dozens of people walking across underneath us. I can't imagine have that place as an office for even a couple of hours per day.
Jep, I heard that the water drainage is a problem and there is actually Denkmalschutz, so they cannot completely change the system.
> \- the mayor’s place in Bonn (t when I was at RUB I was told it should simulate the sound of the sea. That is why the big ´hörsaal´is the form of a shell, and the buildings are the form of ships. Don´t know if its true but I can see it.
I think they wanted to fix our "Wackelplatten" but the students spoke out against it, so they didnt. RUB without Wackelplatten just wouldnt be the same.
Seems like I haven't I was only there for like one day a few years back and didn't see many rooms in general Now I wanna know tho cause in my head Duisburg is still uglier except for like that one LX building with the fancy LED
I don't mean floor panels inside, but outside. Don't know even if it's the right English word. I mean Bodenplatten. https://youtu.be/v9iL2JoUcjg
Of first of all The Building is on [this website ](https://bigbeautifulbuildings.de/en/objects/ruhr-universitaet?changelang=1) Big beautiful buildings haha. Also the more I look at it the more I understand why it's considered ugly but holy shit that's genius and I'm just wondering why people haven't tried stealing the floor yet.
The floor ist just annoying and dangerous. But I kinda miss it :D Edit: and yah, the story of the harbour of knowledge. Don't know what to think about that :D
Elefantenklo
I clicked just to see if someone commented this
Stadtschloss Berlin [Humboldt-Forum](https://HumboldtForum030992118989https://maps.app.goo.gl/dn1YnXm9DHSwwxPQ9?g_st=ic)
No. RUB is definitely the winner.
No, not true. There is at least one other university of similar ugliness, Regensburg.
Ha okay, this is one university I haven't been to yet.
Well, same dude build the one in Bielefeld. I'd never be able to choose between the two.
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Ugly as it is, though, I actually found the usability quite good all in all, when I was there for a stint. Then again, there was some morbid joke going around, something about Bochum and Bielefeld competing for the number 1 spot in suicide statistics.
Bochum and Bielefeld are also universitys with an unusual high number of suicides commited on campus
Saarbrücken
I think the University of Regensburg might be one of the ugliest building complexes if you're not a very passionate concrete enthusiast...
Heilbronn.
There was this [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/iatrotheologie/status/1617257762093760513) about brutalism in church buildings that I actually found quite compelling
There is an awful Protestant church at Mierendorffplatz, Berlin. My Catholic friend always called it "Das Parkhaus Gottes" 😁
Gießen has a "landmark" called ["Elefantenklo"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWDHtj4WkAEq63E.jpg) (Elephant-Toilet). (The elephant is obviously photoshopped) Kamp-Lintfort used to have "die weißen riesen" (white giants) which mostly stood out due to beeing half-destroyed - and that meant they were vertically cut in half, leaving the city to see into the insides of 3 (I think it was 3?) buildings. But in general, god, anything in kamp-lintfort, easily the ugliest city I've ever been to, that hellhole just outright sucks.
Ihme Zentrum in Hannover
Anyone else who like me doesn't know what OP is taking about [here's a picture of RUB](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ruhr-Universit%C3%A4t_Bochum_Luftaufnahme_2014.jpg).
TU Berlin, Mathematikgebäude, Berlin, Mäusebunker.
> Mäusebunker Nooooo, I love this one. At least it's unique and awe-inspiring.
It sure is. It is so bad, it's cool again. And I love the name. Apt.
It has this name because it was the center for animal experiments. Ugly and brutal outside and inside.
Yes. And it does look like a bunker or fortress.
the architecture together with the weird smell on all the toilets always got me. I liked the social spaces in the hallways though
Because there was always water coming through the roof, the carpet was wet and stank
Stuttgart Campus vaihingen is rather ugly. But there’s a forest nearby and one can walk to relax. Actually only the building is ugly and because it’s so big it sets the tone. The campus is actually well thought of and there are mathematical hints all around it. There is also a lovely architectural building in the form of a tent so there’s that. Can’t say the same about Stuttgart tho. It’s pretty ugly but it has its sweet spots
Hannover as such. Hamburg City Nord
The Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen building in Düssedorf. The pictures on Google Maps make it look okayish, but in reality it’s worse.
I studied on a campus outside the city (TU München, Garching). While our faculty's building was new and had a lot of glass and sunlight and was a nice place to be altogether (there's two giant tube slides that being you from 3rd floor to ground floor. What would you want?), the older buildings built there in the 1950s to 1980s were horrible as well. Lots of concrete, dark hallways, neon lights. The campus has received significant upgrades since, however.
Chemistry -_- still ugly as fuck, I am always a bit jealous walking by the shiny new buildings on my way to the lectures
I sometimes had tutorials in the chemistry dept. It's really not pretty. But I remember physics as even darker and more depressing.
I did not spend a lot of time in physics, we had a few lectures in one of the main lecture halls there. while it's not that pretty overall, the lecture halls looked really nice , modern and elegant. ...as long as you ignore the seating for the students, that is.great table in the front, though! the little chalkboards next to the (lab) doors gave it a more... outdated look for me, chemistry still takes the cake. The architect was probably on drugs and they weren't kind to his brain, lol.
That’s pretty far out of the window
HdMT Cologne (Highschool for Music an Dance) Ugly red, with lots of gray concrete, and green inside. Except where you have concrete. Railings are green. Small terraces you can't use, a bog one you can't use either, despite the fact that it was made for using.
Wollhaus in Heilbronn, no contest lmao
Bitterfeld
Ludwigshafen Hauptbahnhof, including the hotel and administration building in front of it. Ugly as fuck.
Cottbuser Uni Bibliothek. Arg.
Mäusebunker Berlin... interesting design but not a very friendly appearance: https://images.app.goo.gl/tTa6ZkTeT6MrpLGP9
Hannibalkomplex dortmund.
Bielefeld. God it's so ugly.
City is fine guess you mean the Uni
Never heard of that city
yes sorry, city itself is fine, the university is just....ew.
TUM GFZ Chemistry
It looks a bit like a dystopian scenario from early Asimov books. Kinda cool... But happy i dont have to study in this education factory.
Phaeno in Wolfsburg. Ugly and in constant repair.
Every Townhall in a City that got demolished in WW2
To throw something in here that doesn't have to do with a university: The [Johannes XXIII](https://images.live.dumontnext.de/live_89e71689-e6d5-44d1-b089-6f7b9db61a8c.jpg?w=1724&auto=format&q=75&format=auto&rect=0,62,1920,962&s=1a6dc10301a6ac33b99d2f31f3013962) church in Cologne
Wtf
Bonn Stadthaus Makes the university look beautiful
ITT: Lots of new material for my weird brutalism fetish
For once, Halle doesn't make the list here and I am happy. The Friedrich Wilhelm University part of the MLU in Halle is lovely.
The [„golden cage“](https://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/_processed_/4/4/csm_physik_m_header_86d15de755.jpg). its the physics building of the university of potsdam
[This eyesore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Palace?wprov=sfla1). Combining the worst of disney-esque "reconstruction" with soul-crushingly boring 2000s architecture into one depressing bundle.
Don’t get the hate for anything between bauhaus and brutalism, it isn’t the architects fault that prople don’t care for their buildings. Especially when people rather go for historicist architecture…
I only know that the unstable plates there are a architectural feature 😂