BUJ Architects' Lincoln Plaza has won this year's Carbuncle Prize, an honor bestowed up the UK's worst building each year by Building Design magazine.
Winner: Lincoln Plaza, London by BUJ Architects —
BUJ Architects' Lincoln Plaza has won this year's Carbuncle Prize, an honor bestowed up the UK's worst building each year by Building Design magazine.
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"Every now and then a project comes along that simply beggars belief. This is one of them," the editors wrote, comparing the building to "a grotesque Jenga game of rabid rectilinear blocks of no discernible form or profile."
Winner: Lincoln Plaza, London by BUJ Architects —
"Every now and then a project comes along that simply beggars belief. This is one of them," the editors wrote, comparing the building to "a grotesque Jenga game of rabid rectilinear blocks of no discernible form or profile."
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"Croydon town centre is in desperate need of regeneration but, guys, tone the colours down a bit," the editors wrote of Rolfe Judd's colorful tower.
Shortlist: Saffron Square, London by Rolfe Judd —
"Croydon town centre is in desperate need of regeneration but, guys, tone the colours down a bit," the editors wrote of Rolfe Judd's colorful tower.
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The Diamond, which was created over a demolished Edwardian hospital wing, was accused over overshadowing and clashing with the older, more traditional buildings surrounding it.
Shortlist: The Diamond, University of Sheffield by Twelve Architects —
The Diamond, which was created over a demolished Edwardian hospital wing, was accused over overshadowing and clashing with the older, more traditional buildings surrounding it.
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"An aesthetic mutation between the nostalgic 1980s brain games of Connect 4 and Blockbusters might not seem like a natural breeding ground for architectural malevolence but this building proves what happens when colour goes rogue," Building Design wrote of this unique structure.
Shortlist: One Smithfield, Stoke on Trent by RHWL Architects —
"An aesthetic mutation between the nostalgic 1980s brain games of Connect 4 and Blockbusters might not seem like a natural breeding ground for architectural malevolence but this building proves what happens when colour goes rogue," Building Design wrote of this unique structure.
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In 2011, the Stuart Lipton, the veteran property developer who co-founded Broadgate, described the building's proposal as "the worst large building in the City for 20 years." It was constructed anyway.
Shortlist: 5 Broadgate, London by Make Architects —
In 2011, the Stuart Lipton, the veteran property developer who co-founded Broadgate, described the building's proposal as "the worst large building in the City for 20 years." It was constructed anyway.
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"This extension to Poole Methodist Church may be small, but the sheer scale of its deficiencies reverberate far and wide across the grim spectrum of planning failure and architectural blight," the magazine writes. Harsh!
Shortlist: Poole Methodist Church extension by Intelligent Design Centre —
"This extension to Poole Methodist Church may be small, but the sheer scale of its deficiencies reverberate far and wide across the grim spectrum of planning failure and architectural blight," the magazine writes. Harsh!
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