Glass walls that were drawn as curves and built as a series of faceted straight edges.

marble + shiny brass + gilt objects

America

Let's see...where to begin.

EIFS
brand new "neo-classical" (or tudor, or french country, or colonial - you get the idea) suburbias
...and suburbia, in general
vinyl siding
face brick
cheap windows
sleazy product reps
bosses that would not know how to plot a drawing, even if their life depended on it

And non-architectural pet-peeves:

blue toilet water
sandals with socks
scrapbooking/scrapbookers
stuffed animals in the back window of a car
'baby on board' signs

moaning about famous architects

america! funny. sad, but funny

any material that is fake | many are mentioned above.

precast pieces made to look like stone
anything with any kind of ornament
99% of developers
any design decision made by a contractor
interior paint transitions at an outside corner

exterior wood or pressboard.
"low pitch" roofs (= "haha, you're fokked")
eaveless roofs
overlooked roof intersection details
bad 'attic' ventilation
crappy leaky ext box covers
bad grading.
shallow crawl spaces
hvac ducting
galvanized water (or drain) pipe
ratholes
gutters
downspouts
perimeter foundations
slabs
wood fence posts (i guess i covered that in the first item)
wax bowl seals (moronic braindead tradition)
wood floors in baths and kitchens
tile
molded shelves and soap dishes in bath surrounds.
i'm sure i can think of some more reallife CRAP

stupid neighbors

:-)

ho hum

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floors that become walls that become roofs.

45 degree angles on 80's corporate buildings.
eggplant purple houses.
styrofoam classical decorations.
lack of sunshading when its 40(c) outside.
walls that are slightly of square, but not enough to make a difference to the space.

"exciting curves" in plan view that exactly correspond to an uninspired architect's arm's radius at 1/8" scale.

Anything turned at a 45 angle in plan view, for the sake of jazzing things up.

SIMULTANEOUS 45 DEGREE RIP!

big second to exciting curves at arms radius

fake columns

decoration

fake or applied brick (can't say I am a fan of any new brick)

the idea that 4000-5000 sq ft is some how needed for an average home

facets on curves

worse, facets on blobs that were presented as 'perfect' curves

neo-anything or reproductions

Idiots who took a semester of AutoCAD at DeVry but who wouldn't know one end of a CD set from the other.

1. Chalk in a scupper.
2. Chalk “formed” under tiles.
3. Anything involving chalk “formed” under any kind of wax plate.
4. A string attached to some chalk on a sill, under a “chalk plate.”
5. A wheel plate attachment on a “stretched” floor.
6. A “stretched” floor which includes any kind of “stringing.”
7. Some kind of rolling mechanism clipped onto a plint vat.
8. Water cords.
9. Two cylindrical partition bearings connected via string to a “sliding” chalk plate.
10. A heavy, waxy accumulation on a north facing wall.

hardware store buyers and conspiring manufacturers of cad or brass 'plated' steel plumbing parts
we have the technology to deal with these people: freeze dry, afix descriptive/commemorative plaque, http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.php?item=22, and hang from a traffic signal.

carpet
carpet pad

any residence >1ksf/(3bd,1bth) or >1200sf/(3bd,2bth) without solid justification. (such as being a family of elephants. but being a family of republicans isn't a justification at all)

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Patch Fittings! Ughhh.

any 'design element' that is referred to as being 'SPECIAL'

Bathroom Carpet
Driveways that back into busy streets

wana bee's
pelpoe who claim to know autocad but don't know sh.....t
So called associates that don't know there head from their ass
un organised drawings

quasi-modern
when my boss refers to something as "trying to achieve a yin and yang relationship"

Losing 4 hours of work when computer crashes

Community consultation

People asking me to find their work when their computers crash after four hours of work. "Did you save?"

people who say sci-arch
automatic flush toilets

BUZZ WORDS!

i hope they flush quietly. otherwise anyone in a nearby bedroom won't get any sleep.

oh. yeah. i forgot. to create adequate distance from that autoflushing noise, we need a >5500 sf house. :-)

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floating brick?
every brick i've seen looked like it'd sink for sure. what do they float brick on? mercury? :-)

I'd try one more time, but I know some stupid nerd will post again on thos Per' thread...

I am so peeved right now.

1. Architectural fins which are intended for solar shading but only added on for aesthetic reasons by the architect with no thought towards appropriate sizing or placement due to the physical location or orientation of the building relative to the sun. 2. Jurisdictions/Cities who review the development permit drawings and pretend to care about sustainability, sun shading, etc but don't pay any attention to whether or not the fins on the exterior will help increase the interior performance of said building. 3. Having an architect tell you that you will need to go in for an amendment to the DP to revise the architectural fins which you thought were originally added to help aid in relief of solar heat gain, so that they can actually help to improve building performance. 4. Mechanical Engineers who spec fan coil systems that are inefficient or aren't appropriately sized due to the thermal performance of the  exterior wall and size of the windows. 5. Architects who randomly choose LEED credits without actually having any understanding costs. 6. Overhangs which are in appropriately sized and cannot save a human life for getting drenched by the rain if their life depended on it. 7. Buildings that are constructed and it is apparent that the drawings were not coordinated between the various consultants and there are all sorts of last minute fixes all over the place. Wasted space due to poor drawing coordination. 8. Inferior products being added to a building. 

Horrible wayfinding...

Redesigning projects during construction.

baseboards, or piece of trim to hide laziness or a lack of skill.

Persistent clients with really bad taste.
 

Clients that engage an architect, get a basic floor plan and then try to save money on architectural fees by working directly with the contractor in the field.

Polished concrete floors in living room.

Area rug that covers 85% of the room with wood floors.

Interior wood ceiling.

Overuse of ipe. 

Rain chains.

First five that came into mind..

Toilet room doors that don't swing out even when they could (particularly in restaurants).

Material / finish changes on outside corners.

A flimsy-looking metal strip at the edge of tile finishes rather than a proper bullnose.

Adjacent switches / receptacles that aren't ganged together.

Urban planners and preservationists who shit all over modernism without any understanding of what it actually is.

"Ornament is a crime" said Adolf Loos. But Adolf was a convicted pedophile, so Adolf was the crime, not some bit of art added to a dreary modernist structure.

.

Flat-screen televisions mounted directly above fireplaces, although I recognize it's sometimes unavoidable in a tight living room.

Arch firms that get multiple bids even though they have already picked their contractor.

Where I work, people tend to draw things too small. Then when I'm working through the design with structural/mechanical etc. I have to go back and explain why it can't be that small. This really irks me, and wastes a lot of time. I would say draw with more tolerance. It's easy to make things smaller, not larger.

Also, the phrase "...the reality is..." is said like 400 times a day in my office. This is really starting to annoy me.

Finally, the phrase "...activate the space..." is perhaps the most meaningless and trite combination of words I have ever heard.

Rant, complete.