BBC Building in Salford Voted Ugliest in Britain

by liamssoft | September 1, 2011 at 06:31 pm

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MediaCityUK has been chosen as winner of Building Design magazine’s Carbuncle Cup - the prize for the worst-realised development of the past 12 months - by a panel of architecture critics.

The unwanted award is named after Prince of Wales' notorious description of a proposed extension to the National Gallery as a “monstrous carbuncle”.

The Salford site, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, Chapman Taylor, and Fairhursts, accommodates ITV as well as the BBC, in addition to the Media Studies Department of Salford University, a school, housing, shops and a hotel.

telegraph.co.uk