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TOPIC: Carbuncle award.
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Carbuncle award. 5 Years, 8 Months ago  
Which is the most hideous building?

In Liverpool we have beautiful architecture but it is being swamped by ticky-tacky monstrosities.
I wish new buildings were made to the same standard.

news.sky.com/story/uks-ugliest-buildings...rbuncle-cup-11484766
 
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Barney

Re:Carbuncle award. 5 Years, 8 Months ago  
If all buildings were the same standard - new ideas would be curtailed and diversity reduced.

In London, the Gothic splendour of St Pancras - and the uniqueness of Kings Cross - have combined magically.

Covent Garden - now cosmopolitan and renewed - still retains its flower market atmosphere.

Adjacent to Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House.


Undoubtedly though - the most impressive and seamless blending of the old with the new, has occurred in Bath.

Georgian buildings stand beside ultra modern properties - and nothing Is even remotely out of place, or contrived...
 
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Jo

Re:Carbuncle award. 5 Years, 8 Months ago  
The Shankly Hotel in Liverpool looks awful behind that older (Victorian?) building. Like someone in a string vest and tracksuit bottoms standing behind someone in a top hat and tails! Rab C. Nesbit school of architecture?!
 
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Jo

Re:Carbuncle award. 5 Years, 8 Months ago  
Correction: just realised it's on top not behind, so string vest piggy backing on top hat/tails?
 
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