That’s hideous. And 8 bathroom sized windows on the side facade. It screams cheap more than anything else, to me.

Wow! Does anyone know who the developer is? They should ban them from working in the neighborhood again. 

why such few/small windows? gross.

I have 3 letters and a hyphen for you: G – H O

So much better than that was there, but this is still pretty heinous.  I really don’t understand the tiny windows on the third floor.  It’s not like anyone is going to break in up there.

 i’d rather have windows with burgle bars than no windows.

They should have torn down and started over instead hodgepodging their way through. There was nothing redeeming about the original building.

Oh and architect anyone? The city should require them for new construction… higher barriers to entry screen out this awful building. It may cost more but this ugly Frigidaire building ends up costing the neighborhood and property values more in the long run anyway.

as much as I dislike Gho specials with the boxy bay windows, I am chagrined to say that this is so much worse 

until you get robbed  

Sealed architectural drawings are always required for new construction.  These guys just had a terrible architect.

 …Hence the burgle bars.

Or an architect who needed a job, and was willing to produce documents using the developer’s “vision”.  A documentary role vs architect…

Ugh. Brutalism.

or you could just not buy the house.  If I don’t like the color of your house, should you not be able to paint or stucco it again?

this is hardly brutalism. no style, it’s just schlocky work.

Maybe it’s the Bat Cave?

Only an inspired architect with an enlightened client could have produce such a masterpiece…or it could have been the work of an enslaved architect grimacing under the taskmaster’s whip. I leave it to the gentle readers of nakedphilly to interpret. 

Times are indeed tough for architects

I wonder if that light inside really goes off when you close the door.

Perhaps a zoning code update would have fixed a part of this… how about a mandate that at least 30% of each street facing facade be windows? 

This is on 22nd street, a major thoroughfare… and the windows would be high enough off the ground so as to require a ladder. Highly doubt the need for tiny break in proof windows for this Frigidaire.

Small windows are cheaper and this builder has no taste.

 That’s a good idea.  I wonder what code dictates now for street facades?

This isn’t even architecture. This is probably the work of contractor who drew up some blueprints and had an architect friend sign off on them. I guarantee you that no one with an education in any design field was paid to draw up the plans for this house.