Are these America's ugliest buildings? Architects name structures they'd like to see leveled for the love of design

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 23 June 2012 | UPDATED: 09:51 EST, 23 June 2012

Barbie's Dream House, the Mall of America and Trump Tower have all earned the ire of a slew of architects that say the world would be better off without them.

In the most recent issue ofCalifornia Home + Design magazine, 25 'eye-searingly awful' buildings have been formally elected to be forgotten forever.

The list runs the gamut of modern monstrosities to futuristic fiascoes and no doubt answers the question for whom the wrecking ball tolls.

The Blob: Formerly known as The Experience Music Project, a museum celebrating popular music and science fiction, this building was designed by none other than the famed Frank Gehry. Guess that makes the EMP Museum in Seattle, Washington, his biggest mistake

Eyesore: Oakley Headquarters in Orange County, California, has some architects seeing red. 'Their Star Wars-esque headquarters, built as "a monument to the machine age, a building designed to honor invention," hasn't been cool since, well, ever'

Black and White and Bad All Over: 8500 Melrose Avenue, in Los Angeles, California, just might be Tinseltown's great tragedy. 'Maybe we would let the building stand as a monument to ugliness,' joked architect Rebecca Rudolph

Bored to Death: Both the AT&T Central Office in Houston, Texas, right, and the Ziggurat Building in West Sacramento, California, left, are the opposite of inspiring

Xana-don't: Even New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hates the Meadowlands Xanadu in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 'It's by far the ugliest damn building in New Jersey, and maybe America,' he said

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Are these America's ugliest buildings? Architects name structures they'd like to see leveled for the love of design