In Frankies' words the image captures the pedestrian subway that runs under Exhibition Road from South Kensington tube station to the three major museums of the area. In school holidays it echoes with the sound of excitable children, at other times it's just a souless, never ending tunnel of despair with little daylight, and no connection with the outside environment. Worse, the subway is prone to leaking when it rains, sometimes to the extent that the subway has to be closed, ironically at the time when it's most useful.
If you would like to contribute it is easy, simply go out into your local urban environment and photograph anything that you think is an example of poor architecture, urban design or use of space. It could be a photograph of a run down phonebox or a disused building, perhaps a concrete monstrosity from the 1970's or anything that you think fits.
Once you have your photograph you can simply upload it to our newly created group on Flickr, Worlds Worst Urban Spaces and Place including a description of between 100 and 250 words.
Its as simple as that.
Welcome to the Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces - a sister site to digitial urban.blogspot.com this site is dedicated to exploring the worst examples of urban planning and architecture in the world.
As such its content is down to you and it is easy to submit via our own Flikr Group. Simply add your photograph along with a short description between 100 and 250 words to the Worlds Worst Urban Spaces and Places Flickr Group.
As a kick off the prize of first post in Worst Urban Place and Space goes to the Millennium Dome in London. Designed by Richard Rogers the Dome has come in for a considerable amount of criticism. It should however be noted that it has contributed to the regeneration of the local area - but considering it cost 50 Million (UK) to build that should go without saying.
The dome was sold to US Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and reopened in July 2007 as the O2, an entertainment complex including a 22,000 seat concert and sports venue, cinema, music club and exhibition spaces.
The fact that London won the Olympic bid for 2012 has given the Dome a new lease of life but the fact remains it stands out on the London landscape as an embarrassing example of both architecture and urban planning.
