July 2012 | Eyesore

Architectural Abortions from the USA and Around the World (And Sometimes Other Miscellany Infecting the Landscape)

London 2012 Olympic "Village" for athletes designed by the firm Delancey and Qatari Diar. The Olympics being industrial-strength sports, they apparently require industrial-ethos housing for participants. Hence, the return of the classic Modernist slab apartment super-block as first conceived in the early 20th century and replicated relentlessly world-wide ever since – especially in its most reviled form: the "projects" for poor people.

Compare the Olympic Village above with notorious British "council flat" housing (for poor people):

Or Compare to Soviet worker housing:

Thanks to Marc Szarkowski for bringing this to my attention.