The ugliest building in China

At first glance you can be forgiven for thinking this is a large Posturepedic® mattress. Actually it is a building called the Water Cube, even though it isn’t a cube and has no resemblance to water. It was built especially for the Olympics. I’ll grant you it looks pretty neat at night all lit up but during the glare of day it’s just a  big ugly mattress. In a couple of years springs are going to start popping up; cotton fiber’s going to shred and blow  in the wind. Give it five years and this monstrosity is going to be bulldozed into a landfill.