So Scotland’s Holyrood is the world’s ugliest building in the world! But we ask about yours and how’s that for a parliament?
It feels a bit unfair to Holyrood at the foot of Edinburgh’s most famous street, the Royal Mile.
Yes, it may not have the river vista of a Houses of Parliament or the Mall walkway of the Capitol in Washington DC.

But Enric Miralles’s £414m edifice with its boats theme (no, me neither) is hardly the Scott Monument rocket eyesore on Princes Street.
Of course beauty is always in the eye in the beholder.
Not that I put much faith in the Buildworkd twitter survey.
And who chose Holyrood ahead of the likes of the J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington DC and the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea?
Brit hit list

On the surface the British entrants in the survey surely should be less aesthetic than Holyrood…
Newport Train Station, Preston Train Station, the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the MI5 Building in London among them.
But then again in this strangest of surveys there are some odd picks among the American buildings.
Some probably more politically motivated, like with Holyrood.
American scream

And Trump’s name in glittering gold in his titular hotel in Las Vegas will do that for many.
I’d argue too against dissing Denver Airport having spent 12 hours there and availed of their putting course on the roof.
Or the Watergate Complex, other than its association with Nixon’s crimes.
And it seems politically even-handed with liberal Boston City Hall in the cradle of the American Revolution.
On the hit list for the twitter haters.
Now perhaps that’s it that the twitterati dislike more what’s inside Holyrood than what it looks like outside.
Something to Prague about

But what about you do you think Holyrood is the world’s ugliest building!
And maybe leave you with this… the Prague television tower with its climbing babies was once the world’s second ugliest building.
The Czech capital edifice surpassed by the North Koreans again. And so there’s hope for Holyrood yet.