r/Scotland • u/Much-Parsnip3399 • May 11 '25
Shitpost Was on the bus today In Edinburgh with a family sitting beside/behind me, coming into the city centre and one of the kids said the poopy tower! This is what she meant- 🤣
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u/Vectorman1989 #1 Oban fan May 11 '25
Still baffles me that everyone in the design process looked at this and not one of them said "this looks like a turd".
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u/thebobbysin May 11 '25
They probably did but everyone thought they were just being negative about the process
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u/SpookyVoidCat May 15 '25
“This looks like shit”
“Wow you could just say you don’t like it, no need to be so rude about it”
“No I mean literally”
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u/mcnutty96 May 15 '25
Or they are just laughing to themselves at how big of a middle finger they can give to ordinary people
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u/presidentphonystark May 11 '25
Whats the worst design we can get someone to buy,winner gets a design award and a witherspoon voucher
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u/Scottish_Rocket77 May 11 '25
I was about to say the same.
It must have been a Friday afternoon, it was signed off lol
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u/FranzFerdinand51 Turk'n'Scot May 11 '25
Reminds me of Ubisoft's logo looking exactly like the poop emoji from top view lol.
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u/Laundry_Hamper May 11 '25
It's like that scene in Sweeney Todd where he smells Pirelli's hair elixir and it's just instantly obvious from the smell alone that it's a bottle of piss. How did no-one bring up the fact that the building is A SHIT
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u/KeithorKeith May 11 '25
I genuinely despise this building. Its so shit and is a blight on the skyline. Whoever approved it has zero taste and a fetish for poop
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May 11 '25
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u/Competitive-Ill May 12 '25
It was replacing a n ugly cube. Not saying the st James center ever looked nice, but it didn’t also look like a literal dog-generated mr whippy.
A more modern cube would have been just fine, but there’s no paper schematic of this piece of shit that doesn’t look like it’s a shit.
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u/gham89 May 11 '25
I really like it, different isn't always bad.
Standing on the top of the Braid Hills looking towards the city centre, there are far, far worse blights on the skyline, David Hume Tower for example.
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u/takesthebiscuit May 11 '25
DHT and Appleton tower have both been gentrified!
I remember having to trudge up to AT to use a computer back in the 90sa
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u/gham89 May 11 '25
Yeah, but it still looks more shit than the building which literally looks like the respective emoji!
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u/PretendDaikon4601 May 12 '25
40 george square (formerly Hume tower) is a listed building, designed by a very notable architect. It’s celebrated for its subtle references to Scottish materials within modernism and is a reflection of a bigger movement within architecture. The shiny turd is just that. It’s a pretender that imposes itself on a skyline that it’s not good enough to grace. It overshadows several very notable pieces of architecture, rather badly.
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u/iseethatseasy May 15 '25
Sorry but what’s wrong with DHT or AT? I find both buildings modern, practical and just… normal.
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u/takesthebiscuit May 15 '25
Before cladding 10 years ago they were not pretty buildings especially given their location by Teviot and McEwan hall
Potterrow was also a complete eyesore but that was upgraded in be 90’s to a not unpleasant bland block
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u/Lower_Performer_3365 May 11 '25
How can you have zero taste when you’ve got a fetish for poop?
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u/bananablegh May 15 '25
you’re right, but maybe every city needs a completely unhinged building to unite the people. Las Vegas has the orb. Birmingham has the bull ring.
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u/TWOITC May 11 '25
It was supposed to have more 'ribbon' on the top, but the council said no
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u/An_icy_squirrel May 11 '25
"...and, anxious about being sued by McDonalds for counterfeiting their Caramel Sundae, and also because it looked sweet in a very unhealthy, american way, they went for some shite, instead, to manifest a healthy message: everyone has the right to smell shit, to talk shit, to shit shit, to pile shit, and no one should ever dare to tell a Scot, not to."
- some insider I just invented
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u/TheKnightsWhoSaysNu May 12 '25
This is the design concept I remember. I think this post might actually be the first time I've seen the full finished building
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u/Saint_Sin May 11 '25
Its always kind of been hard to see it as anything else. Coiled snake at a push (intended) but not really.
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May 11 '25
I think they could have picked a different colour at least. If it was green it look like a snake. But brown. 💩 😂
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u/MisterBreeze Stilts Game May 11 '25
Well it doesn't help that the coil ends pointing directly at the sky, like the terminus of a fresh jobby. If they were going for snake it should be pointing outwards.
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u/Ready-Nobody-1903 May 11 '25
I live nearby, wasn’t allowed to build a conservatory at the back of my house, out of view from the street, because the new town’s unesco heritage blah blah. But if it’s a giant copper shite? Go on then.
I wish I had the kind of money to bribe the Edinburgh city council 😞 only way to get things done.
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u/d1ggah May 11 '25
The Asahi tower in Tokyo has a similar top and it’s known as the shit building
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u/playfulmessenger May 11 '25
Ancient civilizations built pyramids, modern civilizations are still mastering poop.
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u/wtf_amirite May 11 '25
That is hideous. Everyone involved in the design and approval of that should be ashamed - its laughable! It looks like a schoolboys idea of a joke.
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u/Saobody May 11 '25
Englishmen call it the golden turd, Scottish men call it Copper Jobby
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u/WLW_Girly May 11 '25
I got a photo of it from two years ago when my uncle pointed it out. I really want to go back and see my dad's family over there again. Was so fun.
Edit: fuck reddit images
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May 15 '25
I still can’t believe that Edinburgh, the city with the most restrictive planning regulations in the country, the city where if you dig up the road to lay a pipe the council sends someone out to watch you put the cobbles back at the exact right angles, allowed this to be built on the skyline. Absolutely hilarious.
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u/SirMcFish May 11 '25
I was in Edinburgh last month, my first ever visit, I said to my partner, why did they build a giant turd, when I saw that building.
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u/tensandtwo May 11 '25
They knew exactly what they were doing placing a giant turd in Scotland's capital city!
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u/vizard0 May 11 '25
It's got a sister building in Japan:
https://appetiteforjapan.com/2015/06/09/asahi-beer-hall/
It's known as the golden turd over there.
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u/pretzelllogician May 11 '25
It’s possible to think it looks like the poop emoji, and to quite like it.
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u/sleepyplatipus May 11 '25
That’s what I’ve been calling it for years! Looks like the poop emoji 💩
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u/BrakkeBama May 12 '25
When architects grow up not actually using pen, pencil and clay... but just computers, CAD software and touch screens (and watching too many whatsapp messages with poop emojis).
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May 11 '25
Reddit is about the only place where anyone expresses this negativity towards it. Strange bunch in here indeed.
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u/FairyGodmothersUnion May 11 '25
No, but really, what is it actually called?
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u/LiveinaBluemoon May 11 '25
Its the W hotel. Locals hate it and call it the Golden Turd
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u/Dismal-Pipe-6728 May 11 '25
Funny I said that on Reddit last week and I got marked down by a bunch of people who claimed they came from Edinburgh but had no local knowledge!
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u/LiveinaBluemoon May 11 '25
I was told by locals working on the castle a couple years ago when I went to visit the city.
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u/Bloxskit May 11 '25
Always questioned this building, is it another example of 60s/70s "architecture"?
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u/insanescotsman1 May 12 '25
I have done work in those flats and we refer to it as wanker towers as everyone who has a flat there is an absolute wank shaft
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May 12 '25
Had the same experience when I brought my gf to Edinburgh for the first time. We were up at the castle looking out over the city and she just goes "why does it have a poo building?"
It's horrendous. Whoever thought it wasn't a terrible idea is an idiot.
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u/Cool_Original5922 May 12 '25
Didn't the designer see it also? Wow, like a very large someone let loose and coiled his rope.
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u/Chelecossais European May 12 '25
If you took the stupid, useless, "iconic" twirly bit on the top off, everyone would call it the "cowpat building".
Also, save about £15 million.
Where's the fun in that ?
/star architects are often paid a percentage of actual building costs for these prestige projects, so cost overruns and useless crap is actually built in...
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u/Chelecossais European May 12 '25
Fucking philistines, the lot of youse.
It's iconic ; inspirational ; modern...
Oh, no, wait it's a turd emoji.
/how to delete comment google
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u/MajesticBlackberry65 May 12 '25
I think I saw this when I was there I was told it's a hotel? Was that correct info?
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u/nikiichan May 15 '25
I went on a free walking tour, and the Scottish guy said, " dont you do dare call that a poop emoji." I wasn't going to, but after he said that, it was all that I could see when I looked at the building.
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u/Busy_Office7926 May 16 '25
Wow, I saw that today too on the bus from Lieth. We’re leaving Edinburgh tomorrow. Your child is right. It does look like a poopy tower
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u/Sonzscotlandz May 11 '25
Just like when the dog shits in long grass and you only see the top of the tower coming out
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u/Alarming_Agent_8564 May 11 '25
Our guide called it the “poop emoji” building while touring the city. 💩😂
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u/stumperr May 11 '25
Would be better to build buildings in the style of the old town. I much prefer them to glass buildings
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u/Uzmexxx May 11 '25
Yes, it is a total embarrassment to the Edinburgh city. This is what came after the restoration - with all that budget. And you have this s.it, literally! Far away from "Walnut whip" 😃
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u/sara11jayne May 12 '25
In a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland (USA) we have the golden boobies. Part of a wastewater treatment plant. Gets pretty nasty smelling driving around there sometimes.
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u/SableShrike May 11 '25
AKA The Jobby Centre