Carbuncle Cup shortlist reveals six contenders for Britain's worst building of 2018


While most architectural awards aim to designate the best of the best, since 2006, the Carbuncle Cup has been doing the opposite. A light-hearted antidote to the prestigious Stirling Prize (which recognizes excellence in architecture), the Carbuncle Cup instead honors the United Kingdom's ugliest building of the year. 

Nominated each year by readers of Building Design, the industry news site has whittled down this year's suggestions to just six candidates. These blunders include a couple of mediocre residential towers; a regeneration in Salford that falls short of rejuvenating; a two-story extension to a once charming historic building; an awkward Passivhaus scheme; and a depressing student housing block that is rather unfortunately, also the tallest building in the area.  

"Our shortlist includes an eye-popping mix of architectural sins: wonky shapes, inexplicable combinations of form and materials, loud colors and lumpen shapes"  BD writes. "Many of the contenders arrogantly stick t...

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