DEMOLISHING the former Malcolm Sargent House has been nominated as the worst planning decision in Scotland.

Urban Realm is embarking on a cross country road trip to the squeeze on Scotland’s trouble spots and the old Clic Sargent building has made the list.

Bill Mutter who put the holiday home forward said: “[This is] the decision to demolish an historical building and replace it with a development out of the character with the neighbourhood. 

“The proposed development is over-bearing, out-of-scale and out of character in terms of its appearance compared with existing development in the vicinity.”

Also nominated are Marischal Square, Aberdeen, Arbroath and Strathcona House, Aberdeen. 

The Carbuncle Awards are architecture prizes, given by the Scottish magazine Urban Realm, formerly Prospect, presented to buildings and areas in Scotland intermittently since 2000.

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 is 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 are 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”.

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