Michael Kluckner sends in the winner of this year’s Carbuncle Cup via The Guardian:
A leisure complex in Stockport town centre has been voted Britain’s worst new building after judges scorned it as a “sad metaphor for our failing high streets”.
The warehouse-like buildings of Redrock Stockport beat five other shortlisted candidates to win the Carbuncle Cup, awarded by Building Design to what its readers deem to be the biggest architectural eyesore of the past year.
Judges were left unimpressed by the “awkward form, disjointed massing and superficial decoration”, while readers called it an “absolute monstrosity”.
The £45m development, which opened in November 2017 as part of a wider regeneration project, features a cinema, restaurants and bars and was designed by BDP, the architectural firm formerly known as Building Design Partnership, which is currently working on the £4bn makeover of the Houses of Parliament.
