Carbuncle Awards

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The Carbuncle Awards are architecture prizes, given by the Scottish magazine Urban Realm, formerly Prospect, presented to buildings and areas in Scotland intermittently since 2000.[1]

They were established following a discussion about why policy initiatives to improve the quality of the built environment seemed to be having so little impact beyond the centres of Scotland’s key cities.[2]

The name of the awards is derived from a comment by Prince Charles, an outspoken critic of modern architecture, who in 1984 described Ahrends Burton Koralek's proposed extension of London's National Gallery as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend".[3][4]

There are three award categories:

  • Plook on the Plinth Award "for the most dismal town in Scotland". A 'plook' is a Scottish noun for pimple.
  • The Pock Mark Award "for the worst planning decision".
  • The Zit Building Award "for the worst building completed since the last awards".

Public nominations are made via the magazine's website, with a small group of critics selecting the final winners.

Cumbernauld in Lanarkshire has won the Plook on the Plinth Award twice and is the town most frequently nominated for the award.

The Carbuncle Awards inspired the Carbuncle Cup, another architecture prize launched in 2006 and given annually by Building Design magazine to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months."[5] The latter has gone on to achieve somewhat greater prominence in the media.

Winners

Plook on the Plinth Award

Year Winner Also Shortlisted
2000 Airdrie Cumbernauld, Campbeltown, Ardrossan and Balloch[6]
2001 Cumbernauld Gretna, Aviemore, Dumbarton and two areas of Edinburgh[7]
2005 Cumbernauld[8][9] Cowdenbeath, Dalkeith, Ardrossan, Greenock and Granton (north Edinburgh)
2007 Coatbridge[10][11][12] —
2009 Glenrothes[13][14][15] New Cumnock and Motherwell[16]
2010 John o' Groats / Denny[17][18][19][20][21][22] East Kilbride, Inverness and Lochgelly[23]
2011 Linwood[24][25][26] Nairn and Fort William[27]
2013 New Cumnock[28][29] Broxburn, Fort William, Kirkintilloch, Motherwell, Newmilns and Paisley[30][31]
2015 Aberdeen[32][33][34] Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven

Notes:

  • The shortlist section includes the towns that were in consideration for the award by Urban Realm.
  • The 2010 award was passed to runners-up Denny, after original winners John o' Groats refused it.
  • The 2005 judging panel included the artist Richard Demarco and the Sunday Herald's associate editor Alan Taylor.
  • The 2011 judging panel included architecture critic Mark Chalmers and Urban Realm editor John Glenday
File:Cumbernauld Town Centre - geograph.org.uk - 207206.jpg
Cumbernauld, winner of the Carbuncle award in 2001 and 2005

The Zit Building Award

Year Winner Shortlist
2000 UGC, now Cineworld in Glasgow —
2001 Maternity hospital at Glasgow Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Business Plaza The Exchange, Haymarket railway station
2005 The Pinnacle Building, Glasgow —
2011 Menie Clubhouse[35] Fraserburgh Pool and Invergordon Fabrication shed
2015 Edinburgh Airport eastern terminal expansion —

See also

References

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