we have a "winner" for the carbuncle cup

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 09/06/2017 at 08:14 • Filed to: dezeen, carbuncle cup, architecture, awful

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https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/30/carbuncle-cup-shortlist-worst-building-of-year-bd-uk/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest+CID_ec9feacaaad7c5f96d8adb8e6b53a111&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=six%20projects%20shortlisted

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/09/06/carbuncle-cup-winner-revealed-crass-london-office-development-architecture-news/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest+CID_ec9feacaaad7c5f96d8adb8e6b53a111&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Crass%20London%20development%20wins%20Carbuncle%20Cup%202017%20for%20worst%20UK%20building

someassemblyrequired > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/06/2017 at 08:28

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Beat me to it - here’s another link to the original source:

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-2017-winner-announced/5089506.article

Though I would have thought that addition to Preston railway station would have won by a long shot.

pip bip - choose Corrour > someassemblyrequired 09/06/2017 at 08:30

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yes that train station is disgusting.

OPPOsaurus WRX > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/06/2017 at 08:58

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I dont see whats so bad about that, I’ve seen much worse

punkgoose17 > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/06/2017 at 09:03

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I thought the rail station and power plant development were much worse, but I only saw 1 picture of each.

ttyymmnn > pip bip - choose Corrour 09/06/2017 at 09:25

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Here’s another angle of Preston Station that gives a little better idea of what is going on here. It really is hideous. Architect’s gonna architect, but somebody actually signed off on this.

I blame Frank Gehry. Ever since he became the god of modern architecture, everybody thinks they have to constantly reinvent the wheel. There is a famous composer named Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951). He is perhaps best known for his later 12-tone writing, angular music without a central tonal focus that was a reaction to the extreme Romanticism of Richard Wagner et al. But even he said, “There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.”