Design
The Worst Architectural Renderings of 2015
Depictions of designs that didn’t hit the mark this year.
This year’s list of the worst architectural renderings starts where last year’s left off: with the sheer volume of bad design produced by the competition for the Guggenheim Helsinki in 2014. Like a noxious magma flow, the Guggenheim contest pumped out one toxic museum concept after another. All 1,715 entries in the open contest are still available for hate-browsing. Last year ended with the museum narrowing down the field to six finalists. They announced the winner in June of this year, and indeed, the entry selected was a bad architectural rendering.
Shrouded in fog, it wins points for Finnish realism, even if it looks like an Anduin River fortification designed for the border between Gondor and Mordor.