Norman Foster was born there, it has a glass pyramid, and now, Stockport, U.K., has a Carbuncle Cup–winning building to boast as well. The town, which is south of Manchester, was the subject of ...

News: a 24 metre tall viewing tower that looks like a helter skelter and a student housing development in Oxford have been included in a shortlist for the ugliest building completed in the UK in the ...

The controversial annual award for the country's worst new building goes to the BBC's new Salford home, with the Museum of Liverpool in hot pursuit There were other strong contenders, but the 2011 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After a decade, the Carbuncle Cup has become a bit of an institution, a light-hearted response to British ...

When Prince Charles casually tossed his ‘carbuncle’ grenade into the debate about the extension to London’s National Gallery, he could scarcely have imagined his pustular epithet would become ...