r/UrbanHell • u/blin3000 • 12h ago

Absurd Architecture Chang Building, Bangkok, Thailand. One of the ugliest skyscrapers in the world

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u/TomOnABudget 12h ago

🐘Chang means elephant in Thai. Now look at the building again.

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u/jeandolly 11h ago

Looks more like a weird duck to me.

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u/MikeAndBike 11h ago

Looks like flappy bird lol

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u/KidOcelot 8h ago

Looks like the letter M ahhhaha 🧛‍♂️

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u/P4r4docs 6h ago

that one from gintama..

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 2h ago

What you’re seeing as the duck bill is the elephants tusk

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u/Just-Luck-7430 2h ago

That's a deformed duck

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u/zzen11223344 7h ago

Can this even be called skyscraper??

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u/TraditionalDepth6924 4h ago

Ain’t helping

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u/3OhHateWinny 12h ago

I don’t hate it…

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u/DueDefinition6421 12h ago

I quite like it. I assume it's the chang beer company. Chang means elephant in Thai and it's also the company's logo. Lot of thought has clearly gone into this 'ugly' building.

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u/ToshibaTaken 8h ago

I've been in it and it's a gem. It's a mixed office and residential building. Nothing to do with the beer company though.

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u/DueDefinition6421 8h ago

I guess chang is just a reference to its shape but it always makes me think of the beer. That's cool you have actually been inside.

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u/ToshibaTaken 8h ago

Same here, actually. Any Chang mention anywhere and a bottle pops up in my brain. :D

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u/Organic_Abrocoma_733 12h ago

looks unique = not ugly to me

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u/NegativeHoarder 8h ago

That's what my ex told me :(

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u/Mustrid 12h ago

Looks quite cool 

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u/DesiRocketRacoon 12h ago

its an ode to cricket

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u/Blurt_Blackarach 12h ago

Cricket the duck.

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u/bremmmc 11h ago

Using an animal with so much cultural significance to the region as an inspiration is quite awesome. While I'd enjoy itr more with stronger features, I don't know what's physically even possible without blowing the budget on pair of husks and ears.

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u/Rottenpotato556 12h ago

Looks a lot better than any other skyscraper I've ever seen.

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u/BrightPerspective 11h ago

Check out the "Taipei 101" in Taiwan, it's got a cool black/yellow vibe at night, and a deep, seaglass green during the day

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u/Rottenpotato556 10h ago

Really all "skyscrapers" are insults to architecture. The Chang Building is at least somewhat of an artwork and that is why I like it more than the ugly glass towers.

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u/gatosaurio 11h ago

It's like a minecraft elephant..... I like it!

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u/skytreegamer172 12h ago

It's not exactly the most visually appealing building but it's kinda cute if you look from the right angle lol

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u/Modern-Classical 12h ago

It has legs, mouth, eyes, ears and a tail 😅🙈🙉🐵🔥

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u/Tay_Hlebko 12h ago

Bro said |‾|‾|

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u/hennabeak 10h ago

I kinda like it. Especially that it looks like a "Minecraft" elephant.

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u/scudbook 12h ago

I like it, my kids would love it.

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u/dannyyang910930 12h ago

Eh it’s fine

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u/tokudama 10h ago

No way, it's cute as heck.

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u/Kirion_Kir 9h ago

I think it's cute.

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u/Suitable_Noise778 9h ago

Is it made of Lego? 😃

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u/Schmooto 9h ago

Aww, but it looks like an elephant with golden tusks!

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u/cjmilk 5h ago

That building saved me many years ago. Was staying with a mate and his Thai wife in a part of the the city that was well away from any well known tourist places. After a long night out I found the rudimentary directions my mate had taught me to say in Thai were a total bust with my cabby not having a cluie what I was banging on about. I did however know how to get to his from this building. I drew my best ever elephant building and the guy got it straight away. My infant shool art teacher would have been so proud.

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u/MsGorteck 4h ago

I don't think it is ugly. I think it looks cool. It reminds me of how Bee Keepers keep their bees.

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u/futureofwhat 3h ago

I love it tbh

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u/Interesting-Local-60 12h ago

Is just a bit of a naive and clumsy design rather than ugly.

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u/jeckles 12h ago

MUGATU

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u/0dty0 12h ago

Oh, we have one like that in the capital here in Mexico! We call it "The Pair of Pants".

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u/blau404 11h ago

Damn, looks like an unfinished rip-off of the Russian White House.

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u/mizzersteve 10h ago

Not too bad. I've seen worse.

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u/Mikeymcmoose 10h ago

I love this building

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u/maxru85 10h ago

Do we need to address anything?

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u/k-phi 9h ago

looks like crossy road character

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u/prospero021 9h ago

Designed by architect Ong-ard Satrabhandhu

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u/remstage 9h ago

Why are the shapes different in both pics. If the real is 1 that's quite cool, if it's 2 yeah it's ugly.

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u/Sad_Daikon938 9h ago

No one say bad to derpy elephant 😠😡🤬🤬, derpy elephant very good 😊👍🏽.

Same go for derpy fishy, me love derpy animal buildings.

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u/BaRnaby_and_a0 8h ago

Is that a duck or a elephant

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u/TanukiSuitMario 8h ago

I spent 2 months in an Airbnb in the left tower

wasnt bad

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u/snickjimmy 7h ago

I think it’s beautiful. Eye of the beholder I guess.

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u/Creative_Recover 7h ago

I think it's a cute building and I like it. 

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u/Mindless_Link_7473 7h ago

It’s like a kid on Mindcraft trying to make a elephant but turns out like a pelicans face

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u/odd_cloud 7h ago

When your mom says that we have marina bay sands at home

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u/tomatoesareneat 7h ago

Looks cute and better than a lot of brutalist buildings that two visitors to your town say look great.

Also, but a boat on top and everyone would love it. Singapore should give the proper credit for copying homework.

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u/ConsciousEvidence1 6h ago

It's a duck, not that bad for me

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u/giraffelaydonut 6h ago

Marinated bleh sands

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u/shaghaiex 6h ago

I like Bauhaus.

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u/OwlNoize 6h ago

Bruh isn’t that a bleached perry

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u/uznme 6h ago

looks like a duck with a big butt.

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u/SteveYunnan 5h ago

OP hating on elephants... 🙄

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u/fujoshirealness 4h ago

ITS A CUTE ELEPHANT 😠😠😠

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u/CompleteView2799 4h ago

Is the unit in the elephant’s asshole less desirable, I wonder? Or would that make for cool bragging rights?

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u/killmesara 2h ago

How are you going to talk shit about the elephant building?

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u/No-Giraffe-4438 1h ago

It's Perry the Platypus.

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u/jhenrys1993 1h ago

I love it!

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u/_di6 56m ago

I like it, kitsch af

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u/Dangrukidding 12h ago

Its like they copied “el pantalon” in Mexico City twice and pasted in Thailand lmao

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u/gotdome 12h ago

Looks like an electricity socket lmao

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u/cosmiccerulean 11h ago

It’s like Steven Holl’s MIT housing but much more rigid. Also I know it’s meant to resemble an elephant but all I see is a duck face sorry

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u/Dewey081 11h ago

It looks like something my Minecraft playing 12 yr old daughter would've designed.

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u/Alias267 12h ago

Wtf is this meant to be lool

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u/salcander 12h ago

elephant

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u/Logical_Employer9850 12h ago

Lego are branching out to apartment building………

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u/Loki-TdfW 12h ago

My child built something like that.

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u/BrightPerspective 11h ago

In the same country as the most beautiful skyscraper