Carbuncle Cup
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The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture prize, awarded annually—originally by the magazine Building Design from 2006 to 2018 and, since 2024, by The Fence—to "the very worst new building in Britain" comp
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Drake Circus Shopping Centre
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Drake Circus Shopping Centre is a 425,000-square-foot covered shopping mall in the centre of Plymouth, England that opened in October 2006.
Carbuncle Cup
…as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend". The Carbuncle Cup was launched in 2006, with the first winner being the Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth, designed by Chapman Taylor. Each year the magazine announced a shortlist based on public nominations, usually in the same week as the…
The old Drake Circus shopping mall was demolished in 2004.
The new centre under construction
Part of the contentious frontage behind the ruined Charles Church