The Carbuncle Cup – the annual award for the worst new building of the year – has just announced its list of six nominees, showing off a range of terribly-designed structures from London through to Sheffield.
The buildings – which feature the likes of a Methodist church and a university development – will each be up for consideration when the eventual winner of the award is announced later this week. Previous winners include the Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London and the Woolwich Central development.
You can take a look at all the nominees in the gallery below:
Worst New Buildings 2016
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5 Broadgate by Make
Image Credit: Thomas Lane
The new 12-storey "groundscaper" building was developed in part of the wreckage of Peter Foggo's Broadgate, with the unsightly building looming over its surrounding structures like the giant UFO from Independence Day.
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Lincoln Plaza by BUJ Architects
Image Credit: Ike Ijeh
With rectangular balconies jutting out of its face, the Lincoln Plaza housing tower looks more like something Super Mario would climb up than it does a building that humans can safely live in. It hasn't been confirmed whether or not Bowser is located on its roof.
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Poole Methodist Church by Intelligent Design Centre
Unlike the other buildings on this list, the Poole Methodist Church was included in the Carbuncle Cup's shortlist not because of its garish ugliness, but rather because of its obscene mediocrity. It's so bad that it should probably qualify as a sin.
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Saffron Square by Rolfe Judd
Image Credit: Thomas Lane
Designed Rolfe Judd decided to inflict this monstrosity upon Croydon, with his inspiration behind the Saffron Square development seemingly being a broken kaleidoscope.
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One Smithfield by RHWL Architects
RHWL Architects combined every regrettable color scheme of the 80s into one building, creating a structure so unattractive that even an era of perms, over-sized sunglasses and pastel t-shirts tucked into bootcut jeans would have considered it a bit too much.
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Sheffield University's 'The Diamond' by Twelve Architects
Jutting out of the Earth like a crashed Star Destroyer from the original Star Wars trilogy, this atrocity erected in Sheffield is as offensively ugly as it is impractically shaped.
