“Oppressive, defensive, arrogant and inept”. Judges of the Carbuncle Cup, a yearly ‘prize’ awarded by the architectural website building design for the worst new building in Britain, did not mince their words when describing the new mega-Tesco in Woolwich, which, to these eyes, looks like a giant space invader crashed into the middle of the town.
Also making the shortlist was Trinity Square shopping centre in Gateshead (another Tesco), the Vauxhall Tower, by Broadway Malyan, the chancellor’s building at the University of Bath, and a block for student accomodation firm Unite in Stratford, east London.
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