I nominate STONEHENGE, people come from all over the world to see the grey stones, lured by spectacular pics of romantic rosy skies , rosy sunrises and sunsets.
The reality is it's boring and always raining there. Its next to a very fast road fenced off & reachable through a grotty old underpass. Or you can brave the traffic & view it for free by pressing against the wire fence.
Apologies to any Druids amongst us, I'm speaking aesthetically ,subjectively & mean no disrespect to it's historical importance or its guardians.

Well! I can't speak. Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were a feat of engineering in their day several thousand years ago which even today can not be matched without massive lifting tackle in the form of plant and other heavy lifting vehicles that could transport the stones, some of which are 500 tons in weight from a different part of the UK, and which wasn't available then.

So, they can hardly be compared to that ugly building in the photo which towers above wonderful, and more beautiful architecture and which was probably thrown up in a matter of months made from glass and steel, and with absolutely no master craftmanship in its making.

Absolutely horrible. Don't architects have any pride in their work these days? Answer - no! Do they care about the architecture where they're building? Answer - no!

Edit: I visited Stonehenge many years ago before it was fenced off, and to walk around them and touch them was very mystical indeed. They were fenced off because of "bleep-holes" (no, I'll say it - arseholes), who chose to carve things like "Karl luvs Shaz" on them and other defacements and yet, there they had stood for 4000 years before chavs with knives came along.

Remember that song that went 'little boxes, little boxes and they're all made out of ticky tacky (then something or other and then) and they all look just the same'. Kind of sums it up.

I remember walking around York Minster and was in absolute awe at the skill and pride of a job well done that was around in that time period.

Can I throw another element into the pot? I think a stop should be put to these monstrosities as well:



It's not art - it's a heap of, what looks like, scrap metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmb8bOxP9uw
We have the woking martians make a great urinal now they have closed the public loos at night

Remember that song that went 'little boxes, little boxes and they're all made out of ticky tacky (then something or other and then) and they all look just the same'. Kind of sums it up.

Well! I can't speak. Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were a feat of engineering in their day several thousand years ago which even today can not be matched without massive lifting tackle in the form of plant and other heavy lifting vehicles that could transport the stones, some of which are 500 tons in weight from a different part of the UK, and which wasn't available then.

So, they can hardly be compared to that ugly building in the photo which towers above wonderful, and more beautiful architecture and which was probably thrown up in a matter of months made from glass and steel, and with absolutely no master craftmanship in its making.

Absolutely horrible. Don't architects have any pride in their work these days? Answer - no! Do they care about the architecture where they're building? Answer - no!

Edit: I visited Stonehenge many years ago before it was fenced off, and to walk around them and touch them was very mystical indeed. They were fenced off because of "bleep-holes" (no, I'll say it - arseholes), who chose to carve things like "Karl luvs Shaz" on them and other defacements and yet, there they had stood for 4000 years before chavs with knives came along.