Tempe City Hall selected as ugliest building in Arizona
Jan 20, 2018, 1:57 PM | Updated: 2:01 pm
(Wikipedia Commons)
(Wikipedia Commons)
PHOENIX — Blueprints for a new building can look really appealing on paper, but sometimes the end result doesn’t meet the architects’ — or public’s — original expectations.
The people at Business Insider took it upon themselves to locate all these misfit structures and put together a list of all the unsightly architecture using readers’ input. They simply asked the readers to name one “eyesore they loathe in their state.”
In Arizona, the Tempe City Hall, or Tempe Municipal Building, was selected as the ugliest in the state. Along with the city hall was a few “dishonorable mentions” showcasing the Century Link Tower and BMO Tower in Phoenix.
The Tempe Municipal Building was built in 1970 and defined as landmark by the Tempe Historic Preservation Ordinance for its “achieved significance” in the past 50 years and the “character” the building has, according to the City of Tempe’s website.
Never seen it before?
Head over to 31 East Fifth Street, between Mill and College avenues. It sits in the center of the Harry E. Mitchell Government Complex and goes by the nickname “upside-down pyramid.”
Luckily for Arizona — and the architects in the state — none of its buildings made the cut for the most unpopular as Boston’s City Hall and Manhattan’s 432 Park Avenue received the honor.
Other notable buildings that made the list were Madison Square Garden in New York and the recently-built Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Georgia.
