Empathy, good taste, self-awareness, and the ability to think ahead and follow through on your plans are all vital skills for architects, urban planners, contractors, surveyors, engineers, and designers. But unfortunately, some ‘professionals’ are lacking in all of these fields. And this leads to less-than-perfect cities and homes that are real eyesores.
The popular ‘[Bad] Planning’ account on X is a celebration of all the awful stuff “imposed on our environment.” We’ve collected some of the biggest, most recent architectural and design planning fails to make your inner builder gasp and cringe. Scroll down for a crash course in what not to do if you’re ever tasked with building something.
#1 Guilty Of Multiple Offences!
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#2 New Housing In The Ponds, In Western Sydney
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#3 This Charming Shopfront In Camden Passage Has Been Ripped Out And Replaced With Grey Upvc Cladding And A Roller Shutter. You Guessed It… Without Planning Permission
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#4 Breaking News: Contract For Crooked House Rebuild Goes To Taylor Wimpey!
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#5 Sounds Fun!
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#6 You Can’t Plant That There Mate!
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#7 When You’re A Tram Driver, And Your Employer Says You’ve Got To Work From Home
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#8 Offencive!
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#9 That Looks Much Better!
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#10 Room Without A View!
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#11 What You Doing With That Bit Left Over
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#12 Mehbanism!
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#13 British Housing At Its Finest – Setting, Scale, Landscape, Proportion, Details, And Finesse All Completely Absent!
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#14 Corridoors!
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#15 The Bulls [butt]!
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#16 Rest And Enjoy The View!
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#17 Those Bollards Should Keep Their Car Secure
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#18 Holding Out
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#19 Having Delivered The Building But Left The Trailer Unit It Came On Behind!
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#20 Some People Just Want To See The World Burn!
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#21 Offf!
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#22 Quite Possibly The Most Depressing Garden I Have Ever Seen – As If The Parents In Their Spotless Marble Perfect House Had To Make One Tiny Concession To The Children And Created The Smallest Saddest Patch Of Fun Possible
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#23 Happy Bright, Shiny, Stick-On, Grey, Plastic, New Year Everyone!
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#24 What Fresh Hell Is This!
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#25 Tarmageddon!
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#26 Some People Just Like To Watch The World Burn!
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#27 Who Needs Trees And All That Green Nonsense!
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#28 Cut And Paste Streetscape!
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#29 Wildlife vs. Wildstrife!
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#30 “I’ve Got A Mate Who’ll Knock That Up For Half The Price!”
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#31 Hmm
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#32
So… had laminate flooring laid in the bathroom.. removed the toilet to get the floor laid properly.. a couple of hours later.. the carpet fitter come and laid a new carpet in the next room we come home and I moved the toilet to find this !!!! …
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#33 Responds Positively To Its Historic Context!
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#34 This Weeks Nerdy Fascination Has Been House Doors On Buses. Didn’t Know This Was Even A Thing
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#35 What Vent!!
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#36 We Want A More Modern Look … Yes A Small Municipal Crematorium Would Be Fine!
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#37 Angel Square Islington, Before And After. The Previous Building Wasn’t Perfect, But With Upgrading And An Activated Street Frontage, It Had More To Give
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#38 Placement!
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#39 Summerhouse With Views!
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#40
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#41 I Can See Clearly Now!
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#42 Can We Have All The Things!
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#43 You Ain’t Seen Me, Right!
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#44
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#45 Stage Set Architecture
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#46 The Porch Comes With A Small House Extension To The Rear!
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#47 Don’t You Just Love A Bit Of Detailing!
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#48 Courtesy Of Cockitup Construction Ltd. Via Lots Of You
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#49 Did You Ever Think You’d See The Day ? The Mysterious Steps Of Lawn. Manchester
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#50 “Adds Visual Interest”
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#51 Build Back Better!
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#52 Can’t Believe Someone Did This To The Art Deco Building On Commercial Street. Who Paints Portland Stone?
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#53 What The Actual Hell
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#54 There Are Levels!
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#55
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#56
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#57
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#58
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#59 When Cars And Bin Lorries Are Your Primary Design Consideration
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#60 Local Vindictiveness!
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#61 Getting Strong Gp Surgery Vibes From This House!
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#62 Tell Me What Windows Would You Like? Yes Please!
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#63 But Of Course!
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#64 Biodiversity Not Gain!
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#65
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#66
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#67 Blandscaping!
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#68 Somethings Off!
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#69 What Have We Here!
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#70 Signed, Sealed And Delivered!
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#71 The Rules Of Second Floor Club Are That You Do Not Talk About What Happens In Second Floor Club
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#72 1666: Imagine The Wonderful Doors That Will Adorn This Entrance In Its 350+ Yr Lifespan 2024:
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#73 Before And Hereafter! Grade II Listed!
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#74 Timber Effect!
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#75 Greyscaping!
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#76 Fully Skateboard Accessible!
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#77 They Paved Paradise And Put Up Solar Gain A Lot!
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#78 Impediment!
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#79 I Can Think Of Other Reasons!
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#80
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#81 Gearing Up For Mansards!
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#82
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#83 Building Better, Building Beautiful!
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#84 Garden Is Something Else!
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#85 Scale
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#86 Going Bust On The Landscape Design Here!
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#87 Wolverhampton School Of Art Is Under Threat!
Designed by Diamond, Redfern & Partners (1966-70), the nine-storey Art School block has been earmarked for potential redevelopment by Wolverhampton University. Behind the striking sculptural concrete ‘exoskeleton’, the building remains in its original use and has abundant potential for sympathetic modernisation. Demolition would be wasteful, irresponsible, and anti-growth. C20 Society has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
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#88 Shall We Start The Viewing Inside The ‘Stick-On Porch’! I Think You Mean Vestibule!
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#89 Details
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#90 We Need The Development Of This Windowless Tin Box, Supported With Oceans Of Parking Tarmac For The Vibrancy And Vitality Of Our City Centre!!
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