Carbuncle Cup 2011 is now open for nominations!
Anyone can nominate an ugly building for the award by submitting a photograph of the offending structure to BD's Carbuncle Cup Flickr group, along with the name of the building, its location and the name of the architect responsible. You can also include your reasons for nominating it to boost its chances of winning.
To be eligible, your carbuncle must have been completed within the UK in the past 12 months.
If you have any questions about the cup, or would like to make an anonymous nomination, drop us an email at bdonline@ubm.com
Buildings already nominated:
Museum of Liverpool
“Next to our three gently ageing Edwardian Beauties, The Three Graces, The Port of Liverpool Building, The Cunard Building and the Liver Building, they stick a trashy tart.
“A building that jerks against the restrained classiscism that made Liverpool famous, that escaped the blitz, that managed to survive against all odds……….only now to look alien in their own settings.
“Is it only Liverpool that thinks it can get away with destroying its history in a World Heritage Site. It is being bravefaced but it really is like giving a pretty girl a black eye, knocking all her teeth out and saying ’smile you look lovely’.”
One Hyde Park
One Hyde Park is the famous ‘glitziest, priciest piece of real estate in the world’, built by the Candy Brothers.
Phoenix High School Post-16 Centre, London
This one is in a Conservation Area. and is nominated thus:
“The school seems to have been built in Jenga blocks by someone who is colour blind … children do, of course, like to draw pictures of buildings in bright colours at funny angles but there is nothing that says architects have to build them.”
Ebenezer Chapel and Housing Development
Excerpted Citation:
“This recently completed block of flats by Molyneux Architects gives East Brighton yet another feeble building and reinforces the divide between rich and poor. So bad on so many levels. Described by the architects as ‘a lively contributor to the immediate locality’. It is these mediocre buildings that damage our cities more than bolder failures.”
Carbuncle Cup 2010 winner was Strata Tower in Elephant and Castle.
Source: Building Design
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