Article created by: Eglė Bliabaitė

The secret of a great public space lies in its design. For people to visit and make use of these places many times over, they have to be functional, accessible, easy to use, match the needs of the community, and evolve with it as it changes. After all, most things are created to be utilized, not just to be seen.

However, not all designs can check these boxes. “What happens when they fail to do so?” you may ask. Well, they are shared online for netizens to judge. The team at Bored Panda has collected some of the worst cases in the list below. We hope that these photos serve as a public service announcement that we deserve better!

We also reached out to urban planners Taiwo Agbaje and Samuel Austin, who kindly agreed to share some tips on how to create a successful public space.

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#1 My Classroom Has These Floor Outlets. It's Basically The Toe Stubber 5000

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#2 Leg Space In A Cricket Stadium

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#3 There Are Three Steps Down At The Entrance To This Lobby

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#4 Public Restroom Stalls With... Viewing Windows? Why?

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#5 They Put Circus Mirrors In My Local Gym

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#6 My School Installed A New Beamer. I Nominate Them For "The Best Engineering 2017"

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#7 This Was The "Sink" In A Restaurant

Nope, this isn’t a minimalist, avant-garde design. The water just spills off the edges onto the floor, which is why the mop is right there. There isn’t even a drain pipe below this counter.

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#8 At Least It's Padded

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#9 The Lights In This Hallway

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#10 Lets Hope There Won't Be Fire

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#11 Placing The Emergency Door Button Next To The Children's Play Area

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#12 These Stairs

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#13 This Is The View Of The Stage At The Concert I'm At

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#14 This Aquatic-Themed Hospital Couch Weirdly Has An Underwater Giraffe On It

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#15 Perfectly Thought Classroom

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#16 Who Wouldn’t Want A Ceiling That Looks Like It’s Covered With Hair?

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#17 Steps That Are Too Long For One Step, But Too Short For Two

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#18 Cyber-Greco-Roman Architecture

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#19 My School's Locker Can't Even Fit My Backpack Because Of Those Shelves

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#20 They Replaced Half The Mirrors In My Local Shopping Mall's Bathroom With Advertising Boards

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#21 "Mind The Step"

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#22 Installed Those Elevator Buttons, Boss

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#23 My View At A Movie Theater Last Night

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#24 My Sister And I Went To Use The Bathroom At My Other Sister's Softball Game And We Saw This

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#25 The Staircase At My Hotel Room Just Drops Off

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#26 World's Most Practical Design

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#27 This Escalator Requires That You Still Use The Stairs

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#28 This Door

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#29 Kids' Area In A Hospital's Lobby. N Is For... Nugget?

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#30 My Friend Saw This At The Cinema

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#31 Meanwhile In Supermarket

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#32 Shoutout To This Bar In Rural Alberta, Where The Women's Bathroom Is Right Beside The Piano Stage, No Door. If You Go To The Toilet, Everyone In The Bar Is Going To Hear It

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#33 The Only Unlocked Bathroom At My School

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#34 Wheelchair Accessible Washrooms Are Located On The Second Floor. Just A Quick Trip Up The Escalator

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#35 I Found This Gem At A Hotel In Wisconsin

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#36 The Way These Canvases Were Hung Up In The Bathroom Of My Local Sushi Restaurant

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#37 This Weird Door At The Top Of The Stairs In A Hotel

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#38 Oddly Placed Phone In A Waiting Room

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#39 My View At The Kings Theater, Portsmouth, UK

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#40 This Pull Door At Panda Express

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#41 This Hallway Is Lined With 12 Framed Copies Of The Same Picture

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#42 Nice Idea Badly Executed

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#43 Which Floor Am I On?

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#44 These Cinema Cup Holders Have No Bottoms, So They Only Fit Super-Large Drink Cups

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