Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is winner of the 2025 Aesthetic Atrocity Award.  The dishonorable title will be awarded to the... The post Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? appeared first on The Architectural Uprising.

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