BD kicks off the contest to find Britains worst building completed in the last year

Carbuncle Cup

BD today launches the 2018 Carbuncle Cup, our annual award for Britain’s worst building completed in the past 12 months.

We’ll be publishing one contender every week until we announce the shortlist at the end of August.

We welcome your nominations. Please start sending these to the editor thomas.lane@assemblemediagroup.co.uk Include a short citation explaining why it deserves to win architecture’s wooden spoon and a few publishable photographs taken by you to illustrate your case.

To be eligible a building must have been completed in the last 12 months.

We’ll be publishing one contender every week until we announce the shortlist at the end of August.

Last year’s winner was Nova Victoria in London, designed by PLP Architecture for Land Securities.

It was chosen by a panel of judges consisting of BD editor Thomas Lane, assistant editor Elizabeth Hopkirk, Twentieth Century Society director Catherine Croft and Urbed director and chair of the Academy of Urbanism David Rudlin who won the Wolfson Economic Prize in 2014.

Reader comments are also taken into account during the judging process.

Nova from victoria st

Last year’s winner was Nova Victoria by PLP Architecture