London luxury tower crowned UK's worst building

The winner of the 2016 Carbuncle Cup, offered to Britain's worst building as a provocation to debate each 12 months by way of constructing design, an online British architecture mag, is Lincoln Plaza in London, a 31-story luxury residential tower complete with business front room, cinema, spa, inn and a "fantastic array of lifestyle facilities" by way of BUJ Architects for Galliard homes.

This laptop-generated, cool animated film-style carbuncle -- it makes Cesar Pelli's close by Canary Wharf Tower appearance undoubtedly prim -- is defined by BD's jurors as the "architectural embodiment of sea-sickness." Its signs and symptoms: a "mind-numbing jumble of discordant shapes, patterns, materials and colours."

It's far hard to disagree. BD admits that this is rarely the first time it has had London's new wave of Thames-aspect towers in its essential points of interest. 

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At the same time as Galliard houses argues that layout is "a rely of personal tastes," architecture is a public artwork and homes like Lincoln Plaza or closing 12 months's Carbuncle Cup winner, 20 Fenchurch road (the flexible town skyscraper better known as the Walkie Talkie) fly within the face of civic sense and architectural intelligence.

It is as though those homes are willful provocations, every trying to outdo one another in the horrific taste stakes. London and towns and towns within the rest of britain, the thinking goes, must deserve a great deal higher than those oversized eyesores.