All The Carbuncle Cup articles – Page 7
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NewsStrata tower wins 2010 Carbuncle Cup
BFLS’s Strata tower in Elephant & Castle beats a strong field to win BD’s award for the ugliest new building in Britain.
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FeaturesSix in race for Carbuncle Cup
The shortlist has been announced for the Carbuncle Cup, BD’s award for the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months.
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NewsStephen Bayley backs BD's Carbuncle Cup in attack on bad modern architecture
Stephen Bayley has announced his support for BD’s Carbuncle Cup in a scathing attack on “bad buildings”, including Renzo Piano’s Central St Giles.
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FeaturesNominate your Carbuncle
Nominations are flooding in for the fifth Carbuncle Cup, BD’s annual award given in recognition of the most fiendishly ugly building completed in the UK in the past 12 months. Agree, disagree or send in your own nomination.
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FeaturesLiverpool Ferry Terminal wins Carbuncle Cup 2009
Despite strong competition from a record number of entries, this year’s winning building by Belfast-based Hamilton Architects is a shining example of bad architecture and bad planning
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NewsCesar Pelli's One Park West building fights Carbuncle Cup nomination
Liverpool building to receive a ‘group hug’ in a show of support organised by developer Grosvenor
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2009 longlist unveiled
This year BD has been deluged with entries for the title of the worst new building in the UK, with over 20 buildings nominated for the 2009 Carbuncle Cup.
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NewsEntries open for the 2009 Carbuncle Cup
2009 Carbuncle Cup – nominations now open to find the most hideous new building completed in the UK in the last 12 months..
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2008: The review
You came, you saw, you voted and some certainly came from far: this year’s carbuncle cup was an international affair attracting attention from far and wide.
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NewsRadisson wins Carbuncle Cup (video)
The Radisson SAS Waterfront Hotel in Jersey by EPR Architects has won the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup 2008.
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NewsWho will get the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup this year?
BD’s Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars. So while the RIBA searches for architecture’s most sublime, we uncover its most reviled. Here’s the 2008 shortlist chosen from your nominations
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2008 – last chance to nominate!
With just three more days until the floodgates close on this year’s Carbuncle Cup nominations, it’s time to name and shame your local eyesore.
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2008: The latest nominations
Manchester Civil Justice centre could become the marmite of modern architecture in October after notching a double-whammy nomination for both the Stirling Prize and Building Design’s Carbuncle Cup.
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FeaturesThe Carbuncle Cup 2008: Your nominations
With only three weeks left to nominate your most hated building in the UK, it’s time to put on your protective goggles and pore the streets for that most celebrated monstrosity and deserved winner of BD’s third Carbuncle Cup.
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NewsCalling all carbuncles
This year’s award for the most hideous buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
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OpinionCarbuncle queen
Former newsreader Anna Ford (pictured), who chaired this week’s London Architecture Festival debate on Prince Charles, was struggling to retain that famous objectivity, Boots was amused to see.
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OpinionTesco will be our carbuncle
Thank you for highlighting the activities of Cabe over Tesco’s proposed store in Hadleigh, Suffolk (News June 6).
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FeaturesCarbuncles are planning’s shame
To judge by the number of comments that have flooded in since we announced the finalists in BD’s annual Carbuncle Cup, the award has touched a nerve.Almost 400 of you voted, and more have commented on the shortlist. We make no claim to have done a thorough assessment of the ...
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NewsScars, blots and eyesores
On the eve of the Stirling Prize for best building of the year, we asked you to nominate the UK’s worst buildings for BD’s Carbuncle Cup. Nearly 400 of you took part in our poll to pick the winner, reports Zoë Blackler
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup shortlist revealed
Seven buildings are on the shortlist for BD’s Carbuncle Cup for worst building of the year