30 Buildings That Look Like They Belong in a Villain’s Lair

Architecture can be beautiful, creative, and inspiring. But sometimes a building’s design conveys a completely different feeling. Dark windows, sharp edges, towering walls, and unusual shapes can make an ordinary office building look like the headquarters of a supervillain.

The r/EvilBuildings Reddit community is dedicated to sharing architecture that looks more intimidating than welcoming. Some of these structures resemble futuristic fortresses, while others look as if they were designed by a villain plotting world domination.

Below, we’ve gathered some of the most dramatic and intimidating buildings shared by the community. Scroll down and decide which one looks like it belongs in the ultimate villain’s headquarters.

#1 Gazprom headquarters, Russia

#2 Indonesia’s Presidential Palace, Nusantara

#3 Obama Presidential Center, Chicago

#4 Sumela Monastery, Trabzon, Turkey.

#5 Chaoyang Park Plaza, Beijing

#6 Brutalist

#7 Sphinx Observatory – Switzerland.

#8 Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow

#9 Sutyagin’s house, built by a Russian racketeer in 90s

#10 The 1960s facade of a historic bank building in Richmond Indiana was recently removed

#11 Broken Seaside Apartments on the Kamchatka Peninsula

#12 Monument in the snow

#13 An abandoned church in Portugal that doesn’t feel empty.

#14 New building of a university in Milan

#15 The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#16 Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland

#17 Mont Helena- built on a ceremonial Native American mound in the Mississippi Delta.

#18 The Centennial Memorial Tower in a forest east of central Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

#19 Trellick Tower, North Kensington, London aka. Tower of Terror

#20 Salem witch museum

#21 The Brutalism of Abandoned Ammanauz Hotel in Russia.

#22 In Naples, Italy

#23 Hannover Telemax

#24 I love brutalism in some areas, but here I just don’t know what to say.

#25 Shanghai

#26 Vanke Yuncheng, Shenzhen

#27 Borgrud Stavkirke, Norway

#28 Barack Obama Presidential Library

#29 The brutalist residential complex “Aul” in Almaty, Kazakhstan

#30 M1 tower, Mississauga