Tag: Carbuncle Cup

Radisson Blu hosts Jersey Architecture Biennale



  • The six designers will meet at the Radisson Blu Hotel in St Helier, as part of the Jersey Architecture Biennale.
  • A Jersey building, once voted the ugliest in the British Isles, will today play host to some of the UK’s most successful architects.
  • The Radisson won the Carbuncle Cup for being the British Isles’ least impressive building seven years ago.
  • But the architects meeting there today have all been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for great building design.
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Should Britain’s ‘worst building’ be demolished?



  • That view of 20 Fenchurch Street that brought you to tears is the exact opposite of what he wanted.
  • Either 20 Fenchurch Street is there as long as it endures, or we do something about it.
  • After a day in Paris at Frank Gehry’s exhilarating fish-like, wave-like I found myself on the South Bank almost weeping at the view of 20 Fenchurch Street.
  • I still find it very hard to accept that Centre Point, a building that once personified hit-and-run property development, should now be a listed building.
  • Or even Sant’Elia, although buildings like 20 Fenchurch Street do seem to exploit modern engineering to create futurist dreams that would be a lot better left on paper.


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London’s Walkie Talkie judged UK’s worst building



  • A City of London skyscraper, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, has won the annual Carbuncle Cup, awarded to a building judged to be the UK’s worst.

  • To find a winner, readers of Building Design nominate their most hated buildings, which are then whittled down into a shortlist by a jury of architects and writers.

  • Mr Lane, editor of Building Design magazine, said it was a challenge to find anyone with something positive to say about the Walkie Talkie, officially known as 20 Fenchurch Street, which was completed in April 2014.
  • Thomas Lane, who runs the awards, said the carbuncle “crashes into London’s skyline like an unwelcome party guest”.
  • Other buildings vying for architecture’s wooden spoon were Parliament House, Southampton City Gateway and Woodward Hall in north-west London.


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