Liverpool building named ‘ugliest in the UK’

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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.

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