This is a tower block in Barking.
Now I'll give the builders a bye for the design of the balconies on the right tower, but no one will convince me that one balcony four down on the left is in its intended position.
It's a daily trigger!

by Fatbloke-66

28 comments

  1. I don’t know who, but I bet their signature was written all wriggly.

  2. Looks like a game of Jenga but with slices of bread

  3. Weird, I’ve worked on that building.

    I’d suggest the random balcony placement is to avoid transfer structures on the frame or to avoid sight lines between near facing apartments but everything I know about the clueless Housing Association that built it tells me it’s a fuck up.

  4. Honestly it’s fine, I’ve seen way worse buildings.

    But yea the left one has less variation in balcony placements making the 4th down look more out of place.

  7. Y, I see your point. Probably better than the shit that was there before if it’s in Barking though, hard not to be an improvement

  9. You should probably blur out the naked person in that window on the right. They aren’t identifiable but still…

  10. What? Like this is the ugliest building built in the last 20 years? I’ve seen wayyyyyy worse.

  18. Rather this than “Retail Park Greggs”. Too many grey boxes on grey tarmac under grey skies in this country, masquerading as destinations.

  21. Second one from below on the right tower is the same. It’s just the design

  24. Symmetry? Where we’re going, we don’t need any symmetry.

  25. It’s been designed to fit in with the complex airflow, ensuring that the bloke on the balcony 5 storeis below can blow his vape ploom over the maximum number of people trying to enjoy some fresh air.

  26. Weird the latest episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage mentions possibly using the Fibonacci sequence when placing each balcony on a round building to get optimum sunlight. Or you could just do whatever this is?

  28. It’s actually a giant combination lock. If you move all the balconies into place above one another, the whole thing sinks into the ground and disappears.

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