Is this Britain's ugliest building?

The £380m Nova building outside London Victoria wins the Carbuncle Cup, a prize for Britain's ugliest new constructions

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A glass office building outside Victoria station in London has set a “new benchmark for dystopian dysfunction”, according to the judges of the Carbuncle Cup, an annual prize for the ugliest new building in the UK.

The £380m Nova building “was built to rejuvinate the area and add interest to a formerly run-down and barren block, with trendy food shops and a modern design”, says the Daily Telegraph. But judges have called it “one of the worst office developments central London has ever seen”.

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