Английская Википедия:Carbuncle Awards

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Distinguish The Carbuncle Awards were architecture prizes, presented by the Scottish magazine Urban Realm (formerly Prospect) to buildings and areas in Scotland intermittently from 2000-2015.

They were established following a discussion about why policy initiatives to improve the quality of the built environment seemed to be having so little impact beyond the centres of Scotland's key cities.

The name of the awards was derived from a comment by Prince Charles, an outspoken critic of modern architecture, who in 1984 described Ahrends Burton Koralek's proposed extension of London's National Gallery as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend".

There were three award categories:

• Plook on the Plinth Award "for the most dismal town in Scotland". A "plook" is a Scottish noun for pimple.
• The Pock Mark Award "for the worst planning decision".
• The Zit Building Award "for the worst building completed since the last awards".

Public nominations were made via the magazine's website, with a small group of critics selecting the final winners.

Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire won the Plook on the Plinth Award twice and was the town most frequently nominated for the award.

The Carbuncle Awards inspired the Carbuncle Cup, another architecture prize launched in 2006 which was given annually by Building Design magazine to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months". The latter went on to achieve somewhat greater prominence in the media, and was last held in 2018.

Winners

Plook on the Plinth Award

Year	Winner	Also Shortlisted
2000	Airdrie	Cumbernauld, Campbeltown, Ardrossan and Balloch
2001	Cumbernauld	Gretna, Aviemore, Dumbarton and two areas of Edinburgh
2005	Cumbernauld	Cowdenbeath, Dalkeith, Ardrossan, Greenock and Granton (north Edinburgh)
2007	Coatbridge	—
2009	Glenrothes	New Cumnock and Motherwell
2010	John o' Groats / Denny	East Kilbride, Inverness and Lochgelly
2011	Linwood	Nairn and Fort William
2013	New Cumnock	Broxburn, Fort William, Kirkintilloch, Motherwell, Newmilns and Paisley
2015	Aberdeen	Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven

Notes:

• The shortlist section includes the towns that were in consideration for the award by Urban Realm.
• The 2010 award was passed to runners-up Denny, after original winners John o' Groats refused it.
• The 2005 judging panel included the artist Richard Demarco and the Sunday Herald's associate editor Alan Taylor.
• The 2011 judging panel included architecture critic Mark Chalmers and Urban Realm editor John Glenday

Файл:Cumbernauld Town Centre - geograph.org.uk - 207206.jpg

Cumbernauld, winner of the Carbuncle Award in 2001 and 2005

The Zit Building Award

Year	Winner	Shortlist
2000	UGC, now Cineworld in Glasgow	—
2001	Maternity hospital at Glasgow Royal Infirmary	Edinburgh Business Plaza The Exchange, Haymarket railway station
2005	The Pinnacle Building, Glasgow	—
2011	Menie Clubhouse	Fraserburgh Pool and Invergordon Fabrication shed
2015	Edinburgh Airport eastern terminal expansion	—

See also

• Carbuncle Cup
• Cumbernauld
• Urban Realm