A key redevelopment project in Liverpool city centre has been crowned winner of the 2024 Carbuncle Cup after being voted the ugliest new building in the UK.
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00:00A key redevelopment project in Liverpool's city centre has been crowned winner of the
00:042024 Carbuncle Cup after being voted the ugliest new building in the UK.
00:11The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize handed out as a humorous response to the prestigious
00:16Stirling Prize given by the Royal Institute of British Architects to the country's best
00:21buildings.
00:22Revived by UK magazine The Fence for 2024, Liverpool's Lime Street redevelopment close
00:28to Lime Street station was chosen by a jury as the very worst new building in Britain
00:33to be built since the annual prize was last awarded in 2018.
00:37The modern redevelopment replaced a row of buildings dating back more than a century,
00:41including the Georgian façade of the old Futurist Cinema and featured sheet metal cladding
00:45etched with images of the buildings that once stood there.
00:48Completed in 2019, Lime Street redevelopment designed by Broadway Malay and topped a publicly
00:53nominated shortlist of six, which included another of the city's buildings, the new
00:57Royal Liverpool University Hospital.