carbuncle cup 2009
Entries open for the 2009 Carbuncle Cup
The Radisson Hotel Jersey was 2008's Carbuncle Cup winner
2009 Carbuncle Cup – nominations now open to find the most hideous new building completed in the UK in the last 12 months..
Now in its third year, the Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize what the Golden Raspberries are to the Oscars and over the next four weeks we’ll be taking your nominations for this year’s prize.
High profile monstrosities, value-engineered shockers, buildings so ugly they freeze the heart - crap architecture continues its march across our towns and cities.
From your suggestions, we’ll draw up a shortlist and the winner will be decided by a panel of expert judges, and announced in the autumn.
So get those nominations in, either by commenting below or emailing us at bdonline@ubm.com telling us where the building is and why it deserves to win. Pictures are welcome.
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Check out the previous Carbuncle Cup winners
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Readers' comments (114)
The new British Land building opposite Great Portland Street underground station is pretty awful. Those glass fins look terrible.
The Haymarket Hub in Newcastle must be a finalist if not a sure fire winner. Its form even adopts 'The Carbuncle'.It has destroyedt he public realm around Haymarket Metro and Monument,and obliterated the wonderful views of St Thomas Church from Percy Street. This is as appalling a piece of meretricious rubbish as could be envisioned.
I agree with Owen Hatherley, it has to be Make's Jubilee Campus. To describe it as crude, offencive and foul would be an understatement.
I was wrong... i just saw Pondburys Fire Station... its a close tie with that and Make's Jubilee campus in Nottingham. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/31/prince-charles-fire-station-poundbury
I would like to wholeheartedly agree with Chris and nominate the new Haymarket Metro lump in Newcastle by Reid Jubb Brown. Such a great city and this out-of-scale lump gets landed on it. Makes the heart sink every time I see it.
I also agree with Chris and Rachel over the Haymarket Metro station in Newcastle. It looks like an alien spacecraft has landed from the planet UGLY! It has totally ruined what was a perfectly pleasant approach to Northumberland Street. At least the people getting off the Metro there won't have to look at the thing as they walk away from it. A CLEAR WINNER!!!
Haymarket Hub, Newcastle. THE worst building that Newcastle City Planners have let slip through the planning system in recent times. Completely out of scale with its surroundings and suffers from poor materiality. This has WINNER written all over it...
I concur that the Haymarket Hub (by Reid Jubb Brown) must feature in this year's Carbuncle. Rising with all the majesty of a crippled jellyfish above a historic and well-enjoyed site (that it shows unfathomable contempt for), this is a typical example of all that is wrong with Britain's attitude towards architecture. Arbitrary form, hideous materials, genuinely baffling lack of self awareness in an urban context, shameless commercialism and an amazingly awful remodeling of the Metro platforms (Grape Purple should not be a specifiable powder coating colour), all combine to make something that embraces Gestalt conceptual thinking - this building somehow is actually worse than the sum of it's terrible, terrible parts. It saddens and angers me that this building ever left the drawing board.
I'd also side with Haymarket metro station in Newcastle as a more than worthy winner. Contextually, materially, spatially.... whichever way you look at it, the thing is just wrong!
Don't agree with Henry J at all, he clearly has a blinkered view on what is a vital and vibrant contribution to newcastle.