The most sinister building here in Singapore would probabily be the pearl bank apartments near outram park

http://www.pearlbankapartments.com/

The photos here don't really do the building justice - the building is much older now and it still sits alone on a hill like a crumbling castle - It's something right out of a noir science fiction film ...

What's the most sinister building you know of ?

You think that is sinister?

These four tower blocks are in Glasgow, Scotland (BELIEVE me when I say that not all of Glasgow is like this, lol :lol: ). Talk about apocolyptic, eh?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/the_boy_david/omg.jpg

Have you ever seen anything as scary as that?


What about Glasgow Cathedral?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/the_boy_david/foggycathedral.jpg

I love Glasgow because its just full of atmosphere.

The fact that it makes the entire city block grey and depressing makes the Marriot in Yorkville the most sinister looking POS in Toronto. *Notables: The Nightmare on Elm Street.

http://www.cheaphotels.co.uk/images/cheap-hotels-toronto-hotel.jpg

Sears Tower.

The incomplete Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea.

How is this for a haunted mansion right in the heart of the City of Melbourne:
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/iheritageweb/images/103319_sp_200208.jpg

Looks like it hasn't been touched above the ground floor in 100 years!

Dead link :-(

if you want sinsister look no further than dartmoor prison on a cold winters night...if you can drive across the moor and thru princetown going east you wont be able to stop the car due to legal restrictons incase a prisoner escapes and hijacks you lol but when you get to the prison museum get out and look at the most horrificly chilling sight..the mist rolls over the top of the hill and down onto the vile imposing prison at the foot of the hill. it seriously is a creepy sight especially when you think of who is in there

My University's (Uni of Bath) brutalist pedestrian area known as the Parade... the perfect incentive when studying architecture to try as hard as possible to make nice spaces. Truly vile and stuck on top of a massive hill this area provides a perfect wind tunnel for the aeronautical engineers.

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/about/lib3.jpg

The most sinister I've seen is Mirador/Chung King Mansions & its cousins in Hong Kong.

The Dakota, the Ansonia and the Dorilton in NYC are all 19th century contenders. The Dorilton probably wins. Roosevelt Island is amazingly bleak and threatening-looking--it's featured in the recent film "Dark Water."

The most frightening building I've ever seen is the Danvers Insane Asylum in MA. It appears in the film "Session 9," which also recounts the actual building's truly evil history.

RenCen

Honorable Mention: These buildings in Albany, NY are bizarre. They creep me out. They look like they belong in the skyline of some futuristic dystopic city.

http://www.arborwood.com/images/Photo_Week/skyline_big.jpg

``The American Internationalal scares the s*** out of me.

Good grief those buildings in Albany are strange. Eeep - they dont really look real - i did a google search and they look bizarre from almost every angle.

Creepy.

Great thread, btw - keep it up! (No-one has posted a picture more sinister than my Glaswegian block of flats yet, though - lol :)

The challenge is on!

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2866/011ms.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4295/046rw.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=046rw.jpg)http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4783/075ok.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=075ok.jpg)http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5720/088fs.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=088fs.jpg)http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/2540/055ml.th.jpg (http://img302.imageshack.us/my.php?image=055ml.jpg)

Pictures Copyright 1999 - 2004, David Kohrman (http://www.forgottendetroit.com/contact.html)

Sinister and fascinating: Unhex Nani-Nani in Tokyo by Philippe Starck:

http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/3412/gtcgtcgtc1ql.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2866/011ms.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4295/046rw.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=046rw.jpg)http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4783/075ok.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=075ok.jpg)http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5720/088fs.th.jpg (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=088fs.jpg)http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/2540/055ml.th.jpg (http://img302.imageshack.us/my.php?image=055ml.jpg)

Pictures Copyright 1999 - 2004, David Kohrman (http://www.forgottendetroit.com/contact.html)

Under demolition? :eek:

Good grief, Michigan Central Station in Detroit is such an awesome ruin. I believe a scene from "The island" was filmed there (can't confirm it, but the place bears striking resemblance).

So grand, what happened? :eek:

Michigan Centarl Station has never been used to its full capacity since it was opened in the 30s. This is partly due its wrong location. Passengers had to take an intraurban rail from downtown to reach it. This connection to downtown was discontinued after the Great Depression, made the station even more isolated.

In 1978 $1.2 million worth of renovations begin. These include new track, bus facilities, and cleaning. The offices were used by Conrail. These bright days did not last. Passenger traffic declined so severely that the decision was made to close the facility. On January 5, 1988 the building was permanently closed.

Open throughout much of the 90's, the station has been vandalized. Its plaster and brass details were gutted out by scavengers. Currently there has been discussion of its renovation as the new Detroit Police headquarters or an office for the Department of Homeland Security.

Excerpt from www.forgottendetroit.com

http://www.geocities.com/newyorkphotos/albany/empire1.GIF

http://www.geocities.com/newyorkphotos/albany/empire3.GIF

http://www.geocities.com/newyorkphotos/albany/statelibrary2.GIF

The most sinister building here in Singapore would probabily be the pearl bank apartments near outram park

http://www.pearlbankapartments.com/

The photos here don't really do the building justice - the building is much older now and it still sits alone on a hill like a crumbling castle - It's something right out of a noir science fiction film ...

What's the most sinister building you know of ?

Pics of Pearl Bank Apartments, one of many Brutalist buildings built in the 1970s:

pic by babystan03
http://img73.photobucket.com/albums/v222/ylstan03/City%20Landscapes/DSCN14961.jpg

pic by baqthier
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/baqthier/viewsgapart1.jpg

closeup of facade
http://files.photojerk.com/RafflesCity/pearlbank.jpg


http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0010.jpg

One of the Albany buildings has a cousin in Boston .. the city hall building :

http://www.geocities.com/prudentialphotos/20030826/RIMG1658.jpg

Cà Dario in Venice

All owners of this house are died in tragic circumstances.

The First owners of the house were the daughter illegittimate of Giovanni Dario and the husband, both ended in misery and subsequently died

Arbit Abdoll, rich trader of diamonds all lost its riches little after some become owner

Charles Briggs, an American who escaped from Italy for a presumed scandal died kills.

Among owners also the manager of "Who" and Raul Gardini (the king of chemical industry) , both are died in tragic circumstances.
(Sorry for my english)

http://www.globalgeografia.com/album/italia/veneto/venezia2.jpg

http://www.cheapvenice.com/ca-dario.jpg

Ryugeong Hotel is pretty sinister looking, as are the Capitol buildings in Albany.

Standing underneath and looking up to the Crystal Palace transmitter used to scare me.



http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/images/87.jpg

http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/j.hutton/images/transmitter.jpg

might be contaversial, but i realy think the sydney opera house has a sinister side to it....

one part eating another eating another... a little subliminal but its there!

Ryugyong Hotel is the definition of sinister:

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture/ryugyong.jpg
Thread about it is here if you didn't notice:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=241997&page=1&pp=20

Triumph Palace in Moscow (almost completed) can look pretty sinister too.
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/8643/triumphpalace3qz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

RenCen

Honorable Mention: These buildings in Albany, NY are bizarre. They creep me out. They look like they belong in the skyline of some futuristic dystopic city.

http://www.arborwood.com/images/Photo_Week/skyline_big.jpg
I agree. When I went past them on the highway, its creepy only seeing that tall building out of no where.

I just finished reading an article about these Albany buildings (the whole group of buildings is called "Nelson Rockefeller Empire State Plaza"). The article was a bit long, but very informative and fascinating. It's amazing how so many complex factors resulted in the construction of the Empire State Plaza.

http://www.lofaber.com/albany/essaymaking.html

Ryugyong Hotel is the definition of sinister:

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture/ryugyong.jpg
Thread about it is here if you didn't notice:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=241997&page=1&pp=20

Triumph Palace in Moscow (almost completed) can look pretty sinister too.
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/8643/triumphpalace3qz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The Ryugyong Hotel looks almost exactly how I picture the four pyrmids that house the different ministries of BigBrother in George Orwells 1984 - And I don't think many things could be more sinister than that. :runaway:

rockefeller center in albany certainly is creepy... especially when you are actually in the space

77 Elm St. (The Nightmare on Elmstreet) in Toronto is just hideous
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5711/77elmstb5ds.jpg

Simon Fraser University in Vancouver looks pretty brutal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/Snow20SFU2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/AQ20Mosaic.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/sfucampus.jpg

It's on top of Burnaby Mountain so at least it has good views:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark2.jpg

http://streetdirectory.com.sg/images/simg.php?r=11048348072307&bo=1
Singapore Power Building. Most government buildings built in the 1970s are Brutalist.

Simon Fraser University in Vancouver looks pretty brutal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/Snow20SFU2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/AQ20Mosaic.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/sfucampus.jpg

It's on top of Burnaby Mountain so at least it has good views:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark2.jpg


That looks like where the Tolon live on Stargate SG:1....I wonder if that's where they filmed it.
It's not sinister at all in that, I suppose it alot depends on how the building is presented and the conditions of the photo.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b135/dogyears/IMG_3155.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b135/dogyears/IMG_3153.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b135/dogyears/IMG_3152.jpg

SFU campus on a foggy day. Gloomy but not necessarily sinister. Any Sfu students in here btw ?

At night the Washington Monument seems to have red eyes like a monster.

http://www.adventurist.net/trips/washington_dc_08-2004/washington/photos/at-night.jpg

Simon Fraser University in Vancouver looks pretty brutal

It's on top of Burnaby Mountain so at least it has good views:


My cousin, who attends Simon Fraser University, told me it was intentionally designed to be so ghastly so that people would look at the beautiful views instead of looking at the building. The architects felt if they designed a nice looking building, people would ignore the views. Or at least that's what I was told.

My cousin, who attends Simon Fraser University, told me it was intentionally designed to be so ghastly so that people would look at the beautiful views instead of looking at the building. The architects felt if they designed a nice looking building, people would ignore the views. Or at least that's what I was told.

That's a retarded concept, I'm glad the 60s/70s are over

That "concept" sounds like crap. No architect would do that, EVER.

Hahaha :hahaha:, I'm laughing at all these buildings! They're so scary, so sinister that all I can do is laugh!

Four Tower Blocks in Glasgow/Scotland
- ABSOLUTELY SCARY! Haha, and that blue sky doesn't make things any better. I'd HATE to be in those buildings. They look like they're condemning me to something!

(Creepy) Buildings in Albany/New York
- SCAAAAAAAARYYYYYYYYY! Haha, as I scrolled down, I saw the top of the building and thought it was that building in London, but boom, then came one, two, three, and four of them, added with that strange circular thing that looks like a UFO - and it just looks like a city that aliens that mysteriously placed randomly. I'd HATE to go there also, or live there and see those buildings everyday of my life! DIVERSITY people, DIVERSITY!

Michigan Central Station
- Is haunting! Its like the 1930s have gone and past and now this is all that is left of it. But that being said, if that was in a downtown area, and not a scary secluded zone, it would like quite pretty.

Ryugyong Hotel
- The epitomy of sinister! When I first saw this building years ago, it FREAKED me out! Imagine being in one of those floors! There wouldn't be a single soul in the building, and no electricity! Eeek!

Washington Monument at Night
- :hahaha: :hahaha: Thats hilarioooooooousssssss! It DOES look like a monster with red eyes! How I love this thread! :hahaha:

how about Chicagos prison tower?

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/2341/metropolitancorrectional0018bi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Robert Taylor Homes housing projects in Chicago (almost completely demolished)

http://www.bradley.edu/las/eng/lotm/Chicago/rtaylor11.jpg

http://www.moxmas.com/snowpix/105-0575_IMG.JPG

http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/social/cityofneighborhoods/images/wash-park/washpark-history_17.jpg


Stateway Gardens housing projects in Chicago, also under the process of demolition (if not already gone).


http://www.chicagohs.org/DGBPhotoEssay/gif/dgb19.jpg

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/History/Projects/Pitts/comp_pics/stateway.JPG

http://www.chicagohs.org/DGBPhotoEssay/gif/dgb18.jpg


Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago

http://www.voicesofcabrini.com/pics/whites_big.jpg

http://www.voicesofcabrini.com/pics/demo1_big.jpg

The albany one looks like tower 42 in london, exactly like it.

http://www.arborwood.com/images/Photo_Week/skyline_big.jpg

http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/media/a/a3/42_gherkin_l.jpg

Danvers State Hospital, MA, United States.

Former Psychiatric Hospital, built in the 1870's and finally shut down in the late 1980's, it has remained abandoned ever since. It sits on Hawthorne hill looking over northern Boston. Hawthorne Hill was also the site of the original Salem village where the witch hunt occured.

At it's peak between the two World wars it was crammed with over 4000 patients. The lobotomy was first performed at Danvers State.

I visited nearby Lowell in 1998 visting family friends, and we got into the grounds with my cousins late at night. I didn't sleep at all afterwards, it had the most horrifically haunting and sad vibe. Walking through the grounds you felt watched by the hundreds of dark windows.
http://www.opacity.us/gallery/images/db/0000001324.jpg
http://www.nmrls.org/enha/exhibit/danvers/KirkbrideBuilding_M.jpg

The albany one looks like tower 42 in london, exactly like it.

http://www.arborwood.com/images/Photo_Week/skyline_big.jpg

http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/media/a/a3/42_gherkin_l.jpg

It does look like T42 when viewed edge on, but it is much wider than London's landmark.

http://www.teresco.org/pics/frozen-20010407/P4070071-640.JPG

Trump Tower while under construction.

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/35167391.jpg

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1. This is one of the coolest threads I have read in a long time. I read all three pages sitting here scrolling through these creepy buildings.

2. It seems that the Albany alien game pieces are the most talked about... but for me that picture of the Chicago Prison Tower (I think on page three of this thread) WOW THAT IS WAY CREEPY.

3. To the owners of the photos of the Albany Towers: I was wondering if I could use this photo (shrunken up small) for a post in my blog with a link back to this thread...?

:)
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^You might be able to find some pics on the New York State website which because they're government hosted, they would be public domain.

Thanks for the tip - I will check out the Government sites shortly.
Hey I just had a look at your website about skyscraper models - very cool - quick question how do you paint the cardboard accurately and draw the lines etc.? (I ask because I have a little bit of experience making terrain for table top games and painting them and basing them etc, but all your lines are deadon straight...)?

Anyway, just thought I would let you know that your site is pretty cool!

:)
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These commie block buildings are located in the permanently evacuated Ukranian city of Pripyat (Pre-pet), located 3km from the Chernobyl plant. I wonder if there are any apartments for rent? :crazy:

http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/Chernobyl/Photo/Chernobyl/Pripyat-1_0003.jpg

At night the Washington Monument seems to have red eyes like a monster.

creepy :runaway:

My cousin, who attends Simon Fraser University, told me it was intentionally designed to be so ghastly so that people would look at the beautiful views instead of looking at the building. The architects felt if they designed a nice looking building, people would ignore the views. Or at least that's what I was told.

Your cousin was playing a joke on you as he/she probably knew you had little appreciation for this style of architecture.

SFU is stunningly beautiful. I wish there were more buildings like this else where. What a treasure.

gateway arch to Canterbury Cathedral, UK

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_39j36mHF1XQ/R7Yt9ljuJUI/AAAAAAAADVM/pDa6fKuYPkg/100_2702.JPG


http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/795264/2/istockphoto_795264_jesus_christ_christ_church_gate_canterbury_cathedral.jpg

A few from Liverpool: The tobacco warehouse, the Great Western Hotel and the Anglican Cathedral.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/804/53110582fn8.jpg

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9459/434918998f9a38ae4b2bqi6.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1588/2562573408ea4aa77a62bmv1.jpg

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/290/2690456816fc16640365otg6.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9783/2338268680dbeb5c09acozv1.jpg

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5149/2934979419025383cdf2bis7.jpg

All off flickr

wow..
that was really bad architecture of some of this buildings...

http://www.novaera-alvorecer.net/regaleira_04.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2328828580_2d54e13a3b_o.jpg

Borley Rectory, built 1863 on the site of a Benedictine Abbey, after which emmediately footsteps would be heard late at night. The most haunted house in Britain (and that's saying something, the UK has reputedly more ghosts per sq. mile than anywhere in the world):

In 1900 four daughters saw the ghost of a nun at twilight, who disappeared after they tried to talk to her. The next four decades reports of a ghostly horse and carriage, along with its headless horseman were reported. In 1927 after a new family moved in a brown package was found in a cupboard, inside which was the skull of a young woman. Shortly after, the family would report a variety of incidents including the sounds of servant bells ringing (on which the strings had been cut), lights appearing in windows and unexplained footsteps. The wife reported seeing a carriage and horses.

http://www.tomasramberg.com/img/pilot_images/support_rectory.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/the%20rectory.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/fronthall.jpg

the 'summerhouse'

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/summerhouseatendofgarden.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/kitwindow.jpg http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/bluelanding.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/bathpassage.jpg http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/coat.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/tin.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/summerhouse2.jpg

bricked up passages

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/tunnelWithPerson.jpg


a 'figure' seen in the graveyard
http://www.proofparanormal.com/images/borleyghost.bmp


1935, many incidents took place with another new family moving in, including bell-ringing, windows shattering, stones, bottle-throwing and wall-writing, and their daughter was locked in a room with no key. Marianne Foyster reported to her husband a whole range of poltergeist phenomena which included her being thrown from her bed.[14] On one occasion, Adelaide was attacked by "something horrible". Twice, Foyster tried to conduct an exorcism, but his efforts were fruitless. In the middle of the first, Foyster was struck in the shoulder by a fist-size stone.

http://www.sgha.net/articles/borley_writing.jpg


After the mysterious fire of 1939

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/ruinedrectory.jpg

a 'floating' brick

http://z.about.com/d/paranormal/1/0/U/J/borley_brick_lg.jpg

the nun is still seen walking along a stretch of road where the rectory once stood

http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/road1.jpg http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/road2.jpg

the churchyard survives:

http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/liston.jpg

Well it's just allegedly haunted and simply presented in b&w.

Even if it isn't haunted and is all made up over 80 years, would you spend a night there, alone?

Battersea Power Station is the epitome of sinister to me
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Battersea_power_station_2.jpg/300px-Battersea_power_station_2.jpg

REpost:
Borley Rectory, built 1863 on the site of a Benedictine Abbey, after which emmediately footsteps would be heard late at night. The most haunted house in Britain (and that's saying something, the UK has reputedly more ghosts per sq. mile than anywhere in the world):

In 1900 four daughters saw the ghost of a nun at twilight, who disappeared after they tried to talk to her. The next four decades reports of a ghostly horse and carriage, along with its headless horseman were reported. In 1927 after a new family moved in a brown package was found in a cupboard, inside which was the skull of a young woman. Shortly after, the family would report a variety of incidents including the sounds of servant bells ringing (on which the strings had been cut), lights appearing in windows and unexplained footsteps. The wife reported seeing a carriage and horses.

http://www.tomasramberg.com/img/pilot_images/support_rectory.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/the%20rectory.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/fronthall.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/summerhouseatendofgarden.jpg


http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/kitwindow.jpg http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/bluelanding.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/bathpassage.jpg http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/coat.jpg

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/tin.jpg

the 'summerhouse'
http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/summerhouse2.jpg

bricked up passages

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/tunnelWithPerson.jpg


a 'figure' seen in the graveyard
http://www.proofparanormal.com/images/borleyghost.bmp


1935, many incidents took place with another new family moving in, including bell-ringing, windows shattering, stones, bottle-throwing and wall-writing, and their daughter was locked in a room with no key. Marianne Foyster reported to her husband a whole range of poltergeist phenomena which included her being thrown from her bed.[14] On one occasion, Adelaide was attacked by "something horrible". Twice, Foyster tried to conduct an exorcism, but his efforts were fruitless. In the middle of the first, Foyster was struck in the shoulder by a fist-size stone.

http://www.sgha.net/articles/borley_writing.jpg


After the mysterious fire of 1939

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/BorleyRectoryPictures/ruinedrectory.jpg

a 'floating' brick

http://z.about.com/d/paranormal/1/0/U/J/borley_brick_lg.jpg

the nun is still seen walking along a stretch of road where the rectory once stood

http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/road1.jpg http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/road2.jpg

the churchyard survives:

http://www.parascience.org.uk/investigations/borley/liston.jpg

http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2008-06/40139096.jpg

No one mentioned the AT & T building in NY? I have no idea what's in it, but its by far the most sinister building i've seen - an entirely windowless skyscraper!

I think something has to be said about the beautiful but incredibly sinister St. Andrews House in Edinburgh:

http://www.edinburgh-scotland.net/images/StAndrewsHse01.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/StAndrewsHouse-Edinburgh.jpg

The Japanese abandoned island of Hasima is beyond sinister:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunkanjima

You can also watch a 15 minutes documentary about the island, to see the desolation of this place.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Abandoned-Japanese-Island

(a bit off-topic, since it's not a building but an entire city)

I think something has to be said about the beautiful but incredibly sinister St. Andrews House in Edinburgh:

I love that building. They considered the parliament for that right? But thought it looked too Speerish? Pity.

Thanks Seyman, here some pix:

the abandoned Gunkanjima, (Battleship Island), once home to 1,391 people per hectare on the built up district, or 139,100 per sq km.


1974, the last year before it was abandoned:

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3981/gunkex9.jpg http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5624/gunk3qi3.jpg

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2865/gunk4pu9.jpg http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/3848/gunk2lv8.jpg

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...and 30 years later the photographer revisited...



Silent Hill anyone?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2434678634_76dd210982.jpg?v=0



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2434674810_bd1fed3ccb.jpg?v=0 http://www.japanphotostock.com/data/media/38/40423-611.jpg

http://elbauldejosete.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/9-f.jpg


http://www.yardwear.net/blog/content/binary/hashimaislandcentral.jpg http://cuaderno.tigdstudio.it/uploaded_images/city-726055.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/138897956_f3ae6d5ffd.jpg?v=0 http://www.jp-hit.com/picture/image2/gunkanjima/0081.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Hashima076.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/listverse/abandoned/gunkanjima/g3.jpg


http://babesmedia.entertainment.ign.com/babes/image/article/700/700476/jesss-blog-pics-20060606043049886.jpg

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http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/549/shave2cl6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
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147m Strata, London.

Rumor has it that Darth Vader owns a penthouse here :lol:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4488Strata_pic4.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/2wf1rh3.jpg

...

heres one thats pretty creepy

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e232/CharmedOne9805/Lds_church_office_building.jpg

abandoned factory in Bratislava

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/501334492_fc025e448c.jpg?v=0

I have never been there myself but I find the pictures I have seen of Ponte City in Johannesburg quite unsettling for a residential building.

http://www.amethyst.co.za/JhbLandmarks/Skyscrapers/Ponte.jpg

Especially the inside shaft:

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj295/Piatnica/_195_158.jpg

http://wolagiewicz.citizenscholarship.net/photos/0000/0038/B1.jpg?1185275373

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/8/5097/z5097918O.jpg

Doesn't really help to know that this was a place with a very high crime rate.
But I read it is now under redevelopment.

Wow that´s scary!:runaway:

If you are claustrophpbic and masochist looks like a good place where to live...

Sad for Detroit that the industry that made it also consumed it. Industrial cannibalism at its finest. Detroit is the largest city in the US without rail transportation.

i guess this goes with out saying, surprised no one has posted this already

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/483330043_82a3d70b2d.jpg


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1383/1441073050_50fc191dc6_o.jpg

I absolutely love the former Buffalo Asylum for the Insane! When I think of sinister I think of this place.

http://nysasylum.com/bpc/images/bpcbg.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/196716754_629de3afd2.jpg?v=0

http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/blog/images/2008/03/07/1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2618459644_f16115f3e1.jpg

^kewl, what is it used for now?

It's photoshop, this is white steam in reality, not dark smoke.
But still, this photo of Moscow is creepy:

http://worldfrontpage.com/moscow_air/Moscow_Life_by_Alexander_Petrenko.jpg

Bahay na pula "the red house" famous haunted house in the Philippines
http://www.pinoyshop.nl/haunted_house_small.JPG
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2114/bahaydte4.gif

A few from Liverpool: The tobacco warehouse, the Great Western Hotel and the Anglican Cathedral.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/804/53110582fn8.jpg

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/9459/434918998f9a38ae4b2bqi6.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1588/2562573408ea4aa77a62bmv1.jpg


This area has been used for scenes in the new Sherlock Homes film.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/11/21/sherlock-holmes-is-back-with-stars-jude-law-and-robert-downey-jr-64375-22307808/

A bunker in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany:

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4399/img0274bv8.jpg

Someone`s got a concrete block in his backyard.....

REpost:
(and that's saying something, the UK has reputedly more ghosts per sq. mile than anywhere in the world):


that is the funniest most ridiculous quote I have ever read!!


And a very creepy place is Pripryat, an abandoned town in the so called "zone of alienation" surrounding the Chernobyl plant. Come to think of it I have never seen a more harrowing structure then the Chernobyl plant, I wish I had some pictures.

There is no city on earth that fascinates me more than Detroit. It has some of the most bleak, depressing, and just soulless areas as well as some of the most beautiful architecture anywhere. It is a perfect place to shoot a horror movie as the city itself could be the monster.

http://www.themotorlesscity.com/wp-content/gallery/detroit-fog-/12262007_0008.jpg
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http://www.themotorlesscity.com/wp-content/gallery/detroit-black-and-white/burned_toyota.jpg
http://www.themotorlesscity.com/wp-content/gallery/detroit-black-and-white/mcs_fog_3.jpg
http://www.themotorlesscity.com/wp-content/gallery/detroit-black-and-white/mcs_interior_105_shp.jpg
http://www.themotorlesscity.com/wp-content/gallery/abandoned-houses/brush_park9.jpg
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^Nice

^^^wow detroit seems to have a seriously gritty edge, must be why it produces the best techno music in the world along with the equally gritty Berlin.

Simon Fraser University in Vancouver looks pretty brutal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/Snow20SFU2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/AQ20Mosaic.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/sfucampus.jpg

It's on top of Burnaby Mountain so at least it has good views:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/BMPark2.jpg

That place has been used in a couple of SciFi shows, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica most notably.

Stargate:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/thumb/2/2a/Tollana_Garden.png/800px-Tollana_Garden.png

Caprica Marketplace on Battlestar:

http://13thcolony.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cropcapricasfu.jpg

Pretty popular shooting spot, I bet there's other productions that have filmed here.

The American Brewery Building in Baltimore, Maryland.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/458165745_4de669e173_b.jpg

Great topic!

Here I have some fear of Joelma Building, a great fire occuried in this place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joelma_Building

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Edif%C3%ADcio_Joelma.JPG[IMG]

This little house, where a family was killed, here have some ghosts reports :

[IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1309/1221246907_418228f0c8.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/26/99236136_35041f4676.jpg