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Dumbarton

Area: Station link to town and outskirts

Reason: The powers that be seem to have consistently missed opportunities to exploit the potentially beautiful town centre and park with some appalling traffic management and decisions and to blight the arrival at the town with poor developments. (unfortunately the picture makes it look better with the summer growth on planting)

Nominated by: meagain

Inverness

Area: Bridge Street

Reason: Two large concrete buildings on river front, at bottom of castle. Completely out of place in the old town of Inverness and a massive lack of vision from by the architects and planners. What is worse is that these buildings are not being used to full occupancy and are slowly falling apart due to lack of maintenance. They have an incredible negative effect on locals and visitors.

Nominated by: Stephen J Clarke

Dalkeith

Area: Town Centre

Reason: The local planners and the town council seem content to allow this town to slowly atrophy. Given its relationship to Edinburgh and the ring road, this should be a desirable place to live, but instead its just a kink in the A68. The whole town centre reeks of "can't be bothered".

Nominated by:

Paisley

Area: New supermarket next to Abbey Mill

Reason: This town looks like someone has dropped it

Nominated by:

Port Glasgow

Area: All of it

Reason: In Glasgow they are at least making efforts to deal with the passing of the industrial period. In Port Glasgow they are just standing on the shore and shrugging their shoulders. "There is nothing in art or culture that is worth the life and elementary happiness of one of those thousand who rot in the Glasgow slums," wrote Lewis Grassic Gibbons. Whilst the current state of a town like Port Glasgow or Greenock nearby doesn't produce the same depth of feeling, it makes me feel sick in the stomach everytime I see the latest piece of nonsense about Scotland being a creative, forward thinking country.

Nominated by:

Coatbridge

Area: The Quadrant

Reason: Every time I pass by the Quadrant shopping centre i feel like i'm about to be swept up by the arms of a f*** off big monster and eaten alive, slowly over centuries.

Nominated by:

Granton

Area: the western part of the estate behind the coast road

Reason: I know it would appear as if Granton is being exploited fully but I don't feel it is. All the development, will take place down by the waters-edge. Putting aside the quality of this planned develpoment and the wisdom of putting it on the edge of the Forth, the new development merely takes models from Leith and plonks them further up the coast. Have the people who have done this taken into account the street plan that connects the area to the city? Sticking in a tram-line merely highlights the fact that this area is as cut off from the city\\\'s street fabric as it ever was. The old village area on the shore front lacks a community feel like Leith. And the post-war housing estate behind hasn\\\'t had a single planning improvement made to it since its disasterous beginnings. When the current planned developments go ahead its going to look like the worst areas of London - deprived ghettos looking out on a wealthy one.

Nominated by:

Dundee

Area: Around the station

Reason: Confusing mess of bridges, roads, underpasses -- completely uninspiring welcome/introduction to the city.

Nominated by: Ruth Hedges

Edinburgh

Area: Anything and everywhere after 1900 (with a few exceptions)

Reason: Despite spectacular natural and man-made attributes, Edinburgh Council seem determined to ruin the city with shambolic street repairs, hideous street furniture, and a total lack of innovation when it comes it championing any form of quality design. Charlotte and St. Andrew Squares have been transformed into traffic islands, not that they were ever open to the public to begin with, while the standard of landscaping throughout the New Town, when compared with the centre of Glasgow, is just embarrassing. A walk through the city centre reveals green plastic plant pots and natty 1970â€™s style rendered waste bins, make-shift banner posts that resemble a piece of scaffolding sitting in an in-situ concrete base (attractively painted bright yellow), and incessant pink flyers that at first glance seem like an advert of McDonalds. Only on closer inspection is it clear that the pink arches are actually Edinburghâ€™s new corporate symbol, along with the bizarre catch-line â€˜Inspiring Capital.â€™ One area that is being refurbished, a single block of Castle Street, has taken over a year and is still far from complete. The council have recently released a new City Centre Action Plan, which looks as uninspiring as their new HQ. Where is Terry Farrell when you need him? Speaking of Terry, it is hard to see any hard evidence that he actually does anything â€“ his most reported activity to date being his objection to BDPâ€™s alterations to the Conference Centre, which he designed in the first place. Has self-interest taken precedent over championing quality design? It takes a lot of hard work and determination to make somewhere so naturally attractive, and with such potential, look so bad. Nice work.

Nominated by: John Lewis

Greenock

Area: by old tescos

Reason: It's just one bad building too many. The town centre of Greenock was managing to keep its head above some truly baws-ugly buildings. You can't really go too far wrong with a town that has views across the Clyde to one side and hills to the other. But the planning by the waterfront is just f***ing disasterous, an aglomoreration of nasty architecture shrouding the Victorian town hall and this tesco which puts a car park between the old town and the water. B*****ds!

Nominated by: Fanta Boy

Cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: Now I was just wondering, if a town won an award before, can it win it again? Because I can tell you since Cumbernauld won in 2001, the centre of the town has been improved by just about precisely none. The Centre has fallen further into disrepair. (The accompanying picture was taken two weeks ago. Compare it to the one on the main page.) The development land next door to it has unsuprisingly not been built on. And I\'m not surprised. If you were a big moneybags developer would you want your sleek new centre to look out onto this monstrosity. Look at it. Welcome to bloody Kabul.

Nominated by: fancy dan mcglinty

Cumbernauld

Area: The town centre

Reason: The town Centre has been a disaster for years. There are hardly any shops or even nice areas to go. It's hideous.

Nominated by: Eilidh Campbell

Paisley

Area: Ferguslie

Reason: Looks worse than the gaza strip on a bad day.

Nominated by: David McLaughlin

greenock

Area: all of it

Reason: its minging

Nominated by: linzi

Greenock

Area: worst town centre in scotland

Reason: looks awful and poor materials design and atmosphere

Nominated by: C Gibson

cumbernauld

Area: town centre and carbrain

Reason: ugly, grey, damp, full of neds

Nominated by: big jake

Greenock

Area: Central area.

Reason: Building design of last 30 years is completely out of charachter with tradition and history of the area. Truly a 'Carbuncle' of a development if ever there was one! And certainly an embarrasment to bring visitors to the area through.

Nominated by: Ray Cave

Paisley

Area: All Over

Reason: Urban degradation and drug problems

Nominated by: Scotty

cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: cumbernauld had a great chance to have "a town centre" but instead all weve got is a mish mash of shops etc with no focal point ie a real town centre all the people connected in the renovation of this monstrosity dont seem to get it there mantra seems to be is that in the future we will have quality shops etc,but the asthetics of the place is all wrong,so even although the town centre will be complete the place will still look ugly.i feel the only solution would be to bulldoze the place ,and build a "town centre" with perhaps a public square or space which the town needs are there is no focal point ,anyway we will see what happens.apart from that the people of cumbernauld are good people and its a shame we get branded because of this unfortunate blott on the landscape therefore i nominate cumbernauld town centre for the carbuncle of the year award 2005

Nominated by: stephen dunn

GREENOCK

Area: All of it.

Reason: Council houses that are abandonded and burnt out. Mass unemployment which means the biggest queues which were once at the shipyards are now at the jobcentre. To think they actually bring cruiseships into this place. No wonder the coaches taking the cruise passengers go straight up the M8. Also have a 2nd division football team who pay in a ramshackle ground with no decent facilities.

Nominated by: Mark Yardley

Glasgow

Area: Your office

Reason: Imagine being a poor person and having to live in one of these horrid places! What a bunch of middle class twats.

Nominated by: Le Corbusier

Renfrew

Area: Riverside redevelopment

Reason: More yuppie flats that no Local people can afford

Nominated by: Maryellen Campbell

Cumbernauld Town Centre

Area: The whole thing

Reason: It's "Pot Ugly"

Nominated by: John Merrick

Dalkeith

Area: Jarnac and Eskdale Court areas

Reason: The Jarnac and Eskdale Court areas in particular combine the worst in 1960's town "planning" and architecture. A dismal, dismal place which encourages nothing more than a speedy exit. The dowdy and depressing down-at-heel feel is compounded by the tawdry market stalls which populate the civic square. A few hanging flower baskets are not enough.

Nominated by: Elize Rowan

Greenock

Area: waterfront

Reason: destroyed by retail warehouses, tesco and car parking

Nominated by: M Land

Irvine

Area: All new schemes.

Reason: Irvine Development Corporation who were responsible for the new town destroyed all the character of the town and harbour with its boring housing designs which resemble old army compounds, shopping malls which are characterless and general appearance which the town has of being a town of poor people. It has amongst the lowest house prices in Scotland for a very good reason.housing and

Nominated by: Robert Young

Ardrossan

Area: Route to Harbour/Near Train Station

Reason: A lot of neglect. It has massive potential given it's the access point for Arran etc. Some parts are being improved but more needs to be done!

Nominated by: K Cooper

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: No Character, no fun, no style but a good Tesco!

Nominated by:

Ardrossan

Area: approach to Arran Ferry and marina

Reason: It's a complete shitehole!

Nominated by: Gordon

Dunfermline

Area: The HIgh Street

Reason: The high street has been blighted for years by the gapsite of a burnt out department store.Despite the development of many hundreds of high price houses in the Eastern Expansion Area, the "planners" of Fife Council fail to do anything to attract those residents into a high street that is the preserve of Charity Shops .

Nominated by: Graeme Wilson

Ardrossan

Area: All of it

Reason: Have you been there? It's dismall, depressing, grim, oppressive and has an intimidating atmosphere. I left.

Nominated by: Bob Daniel

ardrossan

Area: glasgow street

Reason: so gray and drab

Nominated by: r cooper

East Kilbride

Area: Housing estates

Reason: Is there anything attractive in this town?

Nominated by: J Newton

Greenock

Area: Cappielow Park

Reason: The whole town makes downtown Beirut look palacial

Nominated by: Tom Williamson

Methil

Area: All of it

Reason: That hideous coal plant opposite the football ground

Nominated by: Deborah Carsey

Irvine

Area: All of it

Reason: It makes Kilmarnock look cosmopolitian

Nominated by: Gareth Thomson

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Center

Reason: Ugly, unkempt dismal throwback to 1960's concrete jungleism. Unwelcoming and unpleasant. Parked on top of a hill requires town inhabitants to own a car, Cumbernauld was concieved as town for cars and the town center is the pinnacle of that concept. Half of the town center has been demolished which only serves to highlight the the dismal downtrodden feel of the place.

Nominated by: Struan Johnston

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: It looks like its been blown up and never rebuilt.

Nominated by: Gordon Masterton

Greenock

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Why does one awful looking shopping centre need EIGHT card shops?

Nominated by: Daniel Murray

Paisley

Area: Ferguslie Park

Reason: Full of junkies

Nominated by: Dave

Sprinburn (Glasgow)

Area: The shopping centre

Reason: destroyedf by urban planners road builders and thatcher, the suffered the fate of voting Tinky Winky in as their MP (Michael Martin).

Nominated by: Bryan Donnelly

Paisley

Area: Love Street

Reason: Bloody vertigo stand is a death trap.

Nominated by: David Worton

Ardrossan

Area: Streets near harbour

Reason: Dismal on the brightest day. Uninspired housing design. Pubs uniformly display Tennents' ghastly red T and are as interesting inside as they are outside. Seems to have modelled itself on its partner across the water, Larne. To visit both on the same day would make you want to slit your wrists.

Nominated by: Vince McGlennan

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Uninspiring, dreary, overwhelming, overcomplicated, underesourced, unkempt, overly brutal concrete jungle with no sense of human scale or creation of a place that humans can inhabit without being overwhelmed by the superstructure that is around them. Access is abysmal unless by car, confusing when accessed by car and not integrated with the surrounding residential areas at all. Come on people we can do better than this!

Nominated by: Philip Campbell

Dundee

Area: Riverside drive / Water Front

Reason: Fantastic location spolit by supermarkets & offices..

Nominated by: Richard

cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: Rest of town is OK with plenty of greenery, but the centre has many empty shops and the edge has been chopped off and not even bricked up and smoothed off to make it look better on the outside. Its Â£5 mill facelift did not address this. Also we are still waiting for the Antonine Centre to be built

Nominated by: douglas shaw

Cumbernauld

Area: The town centre and surrounding housing.

Reason: I was brought up there in the 60's and 70's. Since then everyone has moved out except the 'forgotten' few who have no means to move. This has left areas which feel like ghetto's rather than the communities I grew up in.

Nominated by: Alan Robertson

Dufftown

Area: High Street

Reason: Last July I was driving through the Higlands from Aberdeen to Inverness when I decided to stop off for some lunch and to visit a Distillery in Dufftown. It was quite possibly the most depressing town visit that I have ever had. The town's main street was so depressing that I didn't even get out of the car. To start with it was a Sunday and most things were shut. Several shops were empty and boarded up adding to the feeling of decay and desolation. There were a few open pubs but they were unwelcoming - you know the no windows type of affair. This was the height of the tourist season and a fantastic location but absolutely no effort was being made to do anything for any visitors. I pity any poor foreign visitors looking for hospitality in Dufftown

Nominated by: Digbeth D'Mariotti

Port Glasgow

Area: It's all bad

Reason: I drive through it constantly, there being no reason to stop, and I can't think of a single positive thing to say about it.

Nominated by: James Mitchell

Irvine

Area: The sprawl of roundabouts and roadways

Reason: The unnecessary sprawl of major roads throughout and around this mid-sized town hits at american planning ideas and a town with no heart.

Nominated by: T Craig

airdrie

Area: graham street

Reason: from a prosperous and proud town in the 70's to a penny or less shopping centre

Nominated by: Callum Middelton

Cumbernauld

Area: Cumbernauld Town Centre

Reason: Makes me depressed. I despair, I shop elsewhere despite tart up to Phase 4. Grade A listed!!!???!!!

Nominated by: Pete Reid

Cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: With the new superstore open, it looks if anything even worse. The whole thing should be demolished - its a national disgrace.

Nominated by: Rob Malcolm

cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: the non appearance of the new town centre.we are told all the time that everthing is in hand.it is all lies.the North lanarkshire council are using the money elsewhere.

Nominated by: john mitchell

Irvine

Area: Seaside

Reason: Seaside is too far from town. Disgusting train station. And town centre is nice inside but on the outside its just plain. Obviously South Ayrshire council do not care about visitors. Infact I actually believe Ayr to be worse for neglect which is also South Ayrshire. Therefore Irvine receives my vote in the hope that South Ayrshire can think about its Visitors.

Nominated by: Jason Kelly

Aberdeen

Area: Railway Station area

Reason: It is absolutely horrible at the moment, the new "Union Square" development (which was meant to be completed this year) has not even been started yet and it has left the place with a mile squared of wasteland on the edge of the city centre, not only that but you have the railway station which is falling apart then the monstrosity which is the BT building next to it (pictured)

Nominated by: Ryz

cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: Good stores do not want to come. Cheap shops do not survive (thankfully, although they keep appearing). North Lanarkshire Council couldn't care less as they have their 'own' New Town in Motherwell to spend all the money on.

Nominated by: calum macaulay

Cumbernauld

Area: The Town Centre - Again

Reason: Promises Promises Promises - unfulfilled nowhere to shop, nowhere to eat, having to drink in pubs surrounded by houses. Ancient busses, a distant mis-positioned Train Station. Surrounded by greenery that is not exploited, a beatiful House set amongst beautiful grounds that was sold off that should have been a centrepiece.

Nominated by: Adrian Waddell

CUMBERNAULD

Area: ENTIRE AREAS OF '60'S&'70's (so called) "new town". topped off by the achitectural monstosity referred to as the "town centre".

Reason: this place is an utter and total offence to all that is beautiful and uplifting in the human spirit.Decay and neglect are visible at nearly all points.redevelopers seem to give up on any attempts to tackle its' inherent gruseomeness (they appear to take fright, perhap runnning off to monasteries or checking in for rehab) .Doubtless trying to dissabuse themselves that they could have ever contemplated the Biblical proportions of the project they had signed up for .A place more miserable could never be contempated.

Nominated by: N.Robertson

cumbernauld

Area: all of it

Reason: shite hole. this town has nothing good about apart from the A80 out and croy station to take you to better towns (stirling falkirk edinburgh)

Nominated by: Jim Kerr

cumbernauld

Area: centre

Reason: the worst of concrete love that has ever been aloud to see the light of dy

Nominated by: mike peterson

Greenock

Area: All of it.

Reason: A damp,grey dismal town with no redeeming points.

Nominated by: Martin McCormick

Granton

Area: Granton Square & Harbour

Reason: The total desecration of the city's best shoreside asset with the building of tommorrows 'tenemants' in a thoughtless, disjointed and absolutely haphazard manner, with buildings that by their height give no thought or consideration to their surroundings.

Nominated by: Brian Pennycook

Ardrossan

Area: The main street

Reason: Its all perfectly explained in this website www.geocities.com/lordeglinton/

Nominated by:

GREENOCK

Area: All of the town centre, especially the Moll.

Reason: The only charitable thing about Greenock is: "It's home".

Nominated by: A. Gallacher

Ardrossan

Area: Glasgow St / Princes St

Reason: Public investment has not improved area

Nominated by: T Cairns

Cumbernauld

Area: Town centre

Reason: Lived there for 7 years and the waste ground around the town centre still remains undeveloped and an eyesore

Nominated by: Peter Blyth

greenock

Area: waterfront

Reason: unrealised potential

Nominated by: P Sullivan

Glasgow

Area: River Clyde

Reason: Looks like someone emptied a dustbin of architectural peelings.

Nominated by: Archie Cat

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Total mismanagement and disregard of residents needs by local authority politicians.

Nominated by: Tom Bell

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Have you seen it? It has become so bad that there are now corridors that open into thin air, the hallways stink of urine and no matter how hard they try, its always less popular than the Tesco and Asda hypermarkets. Bulldoze the thing!

Nominated by: Iain Podesta

Coatbridge

Area: Town Centre

Reason: We have all the cheapest stores around - I've lost count of the amount of Pound and Charity shops we have. The Council should open up their purse strings and offer some subsidies to get some decent stores to open up in the town.

Nominated by: David McMullan

Ardrossan

Area: everywhere

Reason: Even the new harbour development looks like an open prison...The photo is of one of the better pubs in the town. It\'s a hideous place to live and the councillors are all wierdos. Go to http://geocities.com/lordeglinton for a true insight into this ghastly town...

Nominated by: stephen

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: resembles a bomb-site-Residents forced to shop in other towns eg East Kilbride.Town is close on 50 years old and we still do not have a vibrant,exciting , attractive centre for residents or visitors to enjoy. Population constantly increasing with expensive housing and , still, cash flows out of the town because of the poor shopping facilities.

Nominated by: Mary Stewart

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Unexploited potential. A lack of vision and ambition by powers that be.

Nominated by: Derek Lee

Greenock

Area: Town Centre

Reason: a 1960s monstrosity!

Nominated by:

Irvine

Area: Shopping Mall

Reason: Knocked down Historic Bridge to destroy character of Irvine Centre

Nominated by: Cliff Francis

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre Southern Derelict Site

Reason: Neglect by North Lanarkshire Council and the "Developers"

Nominated by: Malcolm J Allan

Cumbernauld

Area: Shoppping centre

Reason: So unwelcoming - like someone deliberately turning their back on you to avoid social contact - couldn't they turn it inside out?

Nominated by: EdV

Greenock

Area: East waterfront

Reason: No regeneration alond the East roadway from Port Glasgow. Good point is the wonderfull view the Greenockians have of Helensburgh

Nominated by: Graham Thomson

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Not enough has changed since Cumbernauld last won this award

Nominated by: John Watson

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: It's so ugly and depressing

Nominated by: Jim Reilly

Lochgelly

Area: Main Street

Reason: The last time I passed through Lochgelly, much of the town centre seemed to have been allowed to fall into rack and ruin - boarded up shops, etc on a grand scale! It's a real shame that a once-prosperous mining burgh should end up looking like this! It badly needs a townscape enhancement scheme of some kind. Maybe Fife Council should take the lead.

Nominated by: Ron Smith

Fort William

Area: Town Centre

Reason: Bleak place with nothing appealing about it, despite the magnificent views from it!

Nominated by:

Greenock

Area: greenock east , between Port Glasgow and Greenock town centre

Reason: Greenock as well as Inverclyde between them have the potential to be a 'gold coast'Anyone with a half a brain could be convinced of this-just look at where it is situated in one of the most beautiful parts of EUROPE, a short distance west of metropolitan Glasgow. If this town were located in America then its potential would have been fully exploited.I blame the council for this sorry state of affairs; they are a bunch of hicks who are utterly devoid of any kind of vision.Coming in on the bus to Inverclyde from Glasgow, I always have to close my eyes whenever I approach Port Glasgow until I step off the bus at Greenock Town Centre.That stretch of road is notable for being in my opinion, the most depressing urban environment in the whole of Europe. It is embarassing.You couldn't have made a more uglier carbuncle of a place if you had been given a free hand to do so.

Nominated by: Frank Harley

cumbernauld

Area: town centre

Reason: looks like a bomb site

Nominated by:

Cumbernauld

Area: The whole Cumbernauld centre should be pulled down and rebuilt somewhere it is not sinking

Reason: It is the worst town centre in the UK They should take an example from Livingston East Kilbride makes shopping a pleasure

Nominated by:

Coatbridge

Area: Town centre

Reason: Total eyesore.All it has is charity shops and greeting card shops oh aye and to make things worse a Celtic F.C shop.

Nominated by: Mr C robertson

coatbridge

Area: town centre

Reason: total eyesore

Nominated by: mr k wilson

Cumnock

Area: Horrible 1970's shopping centre

Reason: A town seemingly stuck on the edge of the world, no jobs, hope or future symbolised by a horrific example of 1970's town planning scarring the already barren town centre.

Nominated by: John Wilson

Cowdenbeath

Area: All of it

Reason: Its a dumo, the High Street is either boarded up or charity shops, the football ground should have been condemned decades ago with toilet facilities that are probably worse than the average smuggled asylum seker gets in the back of a lorry across the Channel

Nominated by: Stewart

Cumbernauld

Area: Town centre

Reason: Dreadful 'design'. No pulling power to get people in through the doors. Needs to be rebuilt in my opinion.

Nominated by:

Cumnock

Area: Everything

Reason: Poor transport links out of town, shocking town centre and a fair percentage of the towns population are on methadone, perhaps to blur out the ugliness of the town.

Nominated by: Craig Laidlaw

coatbridge

Area: shawhead

Reason: traffic shambles

Nominated by:

Glasgow

Area: New 1960s & 70s University buildings

Reason: It seems the only colour available to the designers was black. The facades are almost entirely black, and the buildings are not aligned to the existing street plan. There is some design extravaganza in the Adam Smith Building, but overall it is a most uninviting structure. It is badly placed, making it completely incompatible with Lilybank House, which it overpowers. The Maths Building is an exercise in black, and the Boyd Orr Building an exercise in black with the touch of green from the copper dribbling down the outside walls. The Main Library Building was a sort of olive green when it was first constructed but because of the use of inappropiate materials for the windows, the whole ediface is now a kind of amalgam of colours and styles. The vertical emphasis has been totally lost with the large replacement windows. But lessons do not seem to have been learnt. Look at what appears to be taking shape in Lilybank Gardens, next to the Q.M. Building. This construction is being built right next to the Q.M., and I mean right next to it. The outside walls will completely obscure the Q.M. windows, i.e. they are being built next to the outside of the windows !!!!

Nominated by: D. Clar

Pock Mark Nominees

Ravenscraig redevelopment

Area: Ravenscraig

Reason: Re-doing the worst of the post war urban planning errors with complete lack of any attempt to generate a mixed-use and appealing urban environment. Cumbernauld mark 2?

Nominated by: meagain

Custom House Quay

Area: Glasgow

Reason: The tower is 24 floors tall, on a riverfront of buildings of only perhaps 10 floors tall maximum, this will ruin the look of the area. People will be filled with neither joy nor optimism at this project, they might have had it been intended for another location.

Nominated by: Peter Mack

Glasgow Harbour, Phase II

Area: Glasgow

Reason: In an era of resurrecting 60s and 70s films badly, this development badly recreates Hutchieston E, one of the worst planning decisions in Glasgowâ€™s history. Ultimately divisive development, the uninspired and uninspirational aesthetics will spawn cold, characterless community. Without community, Glasgow would be very poor indeed!

Nominated by: Raymond Quinn

Govan

Area: Govan Regeneration

Reason: This area is soon to be the capital of design and build featureless offices. A missed opportunity

Nominated by:

ravenscraig

Area: motherwell

Reason: for all the visionary posturing of the developer in last weeks Sunday Herald this is shaping up to be another dull business park, souless shopping precinct and low rise semi detached suburb anywheresville which will suck the life out of neighbouring towns. Just say no!

Nominated by: William Young

Final stage of Gorbals redevelopment

Area: The Gorbals

Reason: Erasing any possibility of space for play/leisure/communal activity - encouraging this historic area of housing to be a space reserved for luxury flats.

Nominated by: Ruth Hedges

Beinn Mhor Power windfarm, Muaitheabhal Windfarm,

Area: Eisgein, Harris, Western Isles & Lewis, & Highland region

Reason: The proposal plans windfarm development on an industrial scale in an area of outstanding natural beauty, this is an iconic landscape of Scotland, one of very few truly remote and wild landscapes left in the country. This landscape is a unique asset to Scotland & will be irrevocably damaged by the schemes of 200-300 wind turbines which will be visible from Callanish Standing Stones.

Nominated by: Mairi Robertson

The North Lewis Windfarm and Eisgein Windfarm developments

Area: Isle of Lewis

Reason: Local council approval in the face of thousands of objections

Nominated by: Murdo Morrison

North Lewis Windfarm

Area: Isle of Lewis, Scotland

Reason: Totally inappropriate development on some of Europes rarest and most designated habitats (the North Lewis peatlands). The development is vehemently opposed by the vast majority of the areas indigenous people, who have used and looked after the land in question for centuries.

Nominated by: Anne Campbell

two huge wind turbine farms

Area: Isle of Lewis

Reason: industrialisation of most of the island which is crofting/agricultural land

Nominated by: stan davey

Son of Amec - Lewis Wind Power

Area: Island of Lewis - Moorland

Reason: The most diabolical planned destruction conceived by anyone in the Highlands and Islands which will have a colossal irreversible impact on the environment. It totally fails to fill people with joy and optimism and the intended plans are despised and deplored by thousands except by councillors who are ostrichean with their heads in the peat revealing the only part of their anatomy that functions.

Nominated by: Murdo M

North Lewis windfarms &Eisgein windfarms

Area: Isle of Lewis-Scotland

Reason: As a regular visitor to the Isle of Lewis for the last 42 years,it is beyond my level of thinking why any goverment would want to desecrate an island of such natural beauty and real importance to nature,especially the birdlife. Who benefits? Would any British goverment back a similar plan in the Serengeti plains in Africa (not a chance).Where is the proposed electricity from these windfarms going, Lewis or mainland Scotland(not a chance).Will the local people be employed in the manafacture or construction of these towers of doom in any significant numbers(not a chance). All in all if this plan goes ahead,not only will it destroy the lifes of thousands of people( who stand to gain nothing from the proposed plans)but already rare bird/animal life will be put in further jeopardy,never mind the 10s of thousands of migratory birds that use the island as a stopping off point on there journeys. Tourism was and still is an important part of the local economy; would that continue with windfarms(not a chance). Talk to the people of Stornoway,Ness,Barvas,Bragar,Carloway etc ,you won't find optimism in these villages,no change since the clearances ...............

Nominated by: Calum Shanks

Custom House Quay

Area: Glasgow

Reason: This scheme, in all it's variations, is knee-jerkingly vapid, anadine, destructive and shambolic. As Clyde Street eventually starts pulling itself together we see the worst planning decision by Glasgow City Council since Stirlingfaulds. I still don't understand how replacing a second rate public realm project with a third rate scheme like this will encourage an active river front? The standards and materials employed look shoddy to say the least, and as a result it all looks like one big compromise and, in my view, has no merit whatsoever. This will be the single-most regretful development of the decade, sets a worrying precedent for the river-front and will NOT attract me to the river-front! ...if GCC wants an end to vagrants and drug addicts using this area as sporting ground then move the hostels out of Carlton Place and St Enoch Square!

Nominated by: P Cavin

Buchanan street and Sauchiehall street

Area: Glasgow

Reason: Buchanan street and Sauchiehall street: the upkeep and execution of public realm improvements. GCC spend a fortune on public realm improvements, win a prestigious Congress of New Urbanism award (something to be rightly proud of), and it falls down at the first hurdle of maintenance and upkeep. As a council tax payer I really object to this. I want my city to get the best and not for it to be sold short by people who can't be bothered and have lost sight of the vision. The public realm improvements, in particular, made Buchanan Street shine. So why is it that there are already potholes in the street? That paving slabs pop up all the time? That rather than replace the expensive uplighters when they break, they are just patching them up with asphalt? Why is it that the improvements ran out of steam in St Enoch Square and we are still stuck with the diabolically bad 1970's underground entrances and the shoddily sited Air Quality Monitoring station that could have landed from outer space? And the last straw this week was seeing that rather than properly replace one of the black granite benches that was knocked over by a lorry last year, they have instead opted for one of those annoyingly squiggly steel benches, that are meant to be confined to the IFSD public realm improvements, presumably because it was expedient. It looks all wrong in Buchanan Street! These streets are meant to be Glasgow's answer to Barcelona's Las Ramblas, and the quality of materials indicated that these improvements should last for a considerable time, but if they keep this up it will degenerate fast and the money spent will be squandered. C'mon Glasgow get your finger out! Depressing....

Nominated by: Gweilo

Lewis Windpower and Beinn Mhor Power windpower applications

Area: Isle of Lewis

Reason: Destroying environmentally important and protected blanket bog in order to 'save' the environment with renewable energy.

Nominated by: Catriona Campbell

Proposed demolition of the Scottish Provident Building.

Area: St. Andrwe Sqaure, Edinburgh

Reason: Edinburgh Council propose to redevelop the east end of Princess Street into a shopping Mecca to rival Glasgow. This would destroy the original layout of the New Town, where retail and commercial activity is located axially from Charlotte Square, to the west, to St. Andrew Square in the East. This would destroy the nature of the New Town, which is fundamental to its status as a world heritage site. If that werenâ€™t bad enough in itself, the cityâ€™s best example of twentieth century architecture, the former Scottish Provident HQ, would be demolished to make way for the redevelopment. So much for learning from mistakes of the past â€“ St. James Centre, anyone?

Nominated by: John Lewis

The loss of the Elgin Place Congregational Church

Area: Glasgow

Reason: It's absence since the beginning of the year being the worst recent scar on Glasgow's city centre townscape. It depresses me walking past it everyday in the knowledge of what was once there. Better known to most Glaswegians as the nightclubs Trash, Shack, the Temple, or Cardinal Follies this 'A' listed church by the architect John Burnet was one of the most memorable Victorian churches in Glasgow, if not Scotland, and a city centre icon. Once deconsecrated it seemed somehow appropriate that it's smoke blackened portico should house something as pagan as a nightclub. Such was the renown of this building that it even appeared on last summer's BBC Restoration programme as an example of the creative new uses old buildings could be put to, with Griff Rees Jones taking to the dance floor to illustrate the point. Sadly in late November of last year a fire in the basement club swept through the building. However, despite this conflagration all did not seem to be lost as the majority of the building appeared structurally sound. It was therefore met with incredulity amongst many Glaswegians when the building was brutally demolished on Christmas eve 2004. Intact features, such as the portico with its superb ionic capitals, and the handsome wrought iron balustrades and lamp stands, that were a tribute to the skills of Glasgow's Victorian craftsman, were smashed without any thought given to their rescue and potential for re-use. Documents issued under the freedom of information appear to indicate that neither Glasgow City Council Planners nor Historic Scotland officials were present when the decision to demolish was taken. These documents also appear to indicate that it was the ancillary accommodation to the rear of the building that was in danger of collapsing onto an adjacent tenement rather than the main church. Obviously this was a serious situation that required a prompt response but you have to question why instead of opting to surgically remove this offending part from either Bath Street or the adjacent service lane the route chosen was through the Portico, the one part of church known to still be sound! The portico could easily have been retained and incorporated into a new hybrid nightclub building and remained one of Glasgow's icons. Alas for the want of funds to shore up the building this option has been denied Glaswegians and a priceless piece of their heritage lost. Other cities would give their eyes teeth for a building of this calibre. It's a cheap shot but would this have happened in Edinburgh? I doubt it. And if the city is serious about applying for world heritage status for the works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh then lessons need to be learned here. It's building's like this church that provide the intellectual context in which to place Mackintosh. His talent didn't bloom in a wasteland afterall. However, though accusations of negligence towards it's built heritage have been levelled at GCC, its doubtful these lessons have been learned as the city recently granted planning permission for demolition. Puzzlingly it added a condition that a report outlining details on architectural salvage from the building, with a view to their retention and re-use shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Authority within one month of the date of this permission. The reason given for this was that it was in the interests of sustainability and conserving the historic environment. Perhaps the city could enlighten us as to how items from an 'A' listed building that were smashed up in the demolition and tipped into a landfill 8 months ago can be retained and reused? 'Trash' seems somehow apt now...

Nominated by: gweilo

Town Centre shopping mall

Area: Greenock

Reason: Completly out of character with the surrounding buildings. Refurbish rather than replace in future, please planners!

Nominated by: Ray Cave

Western Harbour City Quay

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: It is frightening how many supposedly top quality designers have been involved in the creation of this monstrosity. In 1995 Forth Ports commissioned Conran and Partners to look at a masterplan for all its property. In 1999 Llewelyn Davies was commissioned by Waterfront Edinburgh to do a masterplan for the waterfront at Granton. The former was vague, the latter referenced James Craigâ€™s new town. Square blocks around central garden spaces. Nice for the slopes of the New Town but by the sea, it looked like a convict settlement. Itâ€™s for this reason perhaps that the masterplan has been spectacularly ignored at Western Harbour. The developments are as opposite to the originally rigid street plan as could be imagined. A scrum of ugly high rise developments thrust out into the sea, as if each of them were struggling to be the least exposed to the cold winds that whip of the North Sea. Edinburgh was supposed to have the best people in the country working on this. Instead, the market has completely dictated development and a chaotic scramble of sub-standard residential blocks that could have been built anywhere at any time (but most probably in London Docklands during the 80s). Well done. Not.

Nominated by: D Kelso

Pedestrian Bridge

Area: Tradeston, Glasgow

Reason: Thank heavens. For ages Iâ€™ve been wanting to make a long circuitous walk to Broomielaw. Now, I can. Nothing better sums up the current lack of ideas in Glasgow City Council than this frankly twattish concept. One, it is hugely derivative of Wilkinson Eyreâ€™s Millenium Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead. (And that owed a debt of influence to Calatrava). There is just no faith in doing something different here. No understanding that its OK for suspension bridges to look like each other because they are simply getting people from one bank of a divide to the other. For pedestrian bridges, which are supposed to be a focus to regeneration surely you have to say something new. Two, it doesnâ€™t go anywhere. The Millenium Bridge goes between the Quay and Baltic; the one in London goes between a wee church called St. Paulâ€™s and a wee gallery called Tate Modern. Three, itâ€™s going to cost Â£40 million. People shall laugh at us.

Nominated by: sean murray

Haymarket

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: Reiach and Hallâ€™s scheme for Haymarket was a well-designed, appropriate building for an area with more than its fair share of commercial horrors. Why then was it called in? Why did we end up with a planning inquiry? The heritage lobby are a scourge on Edinburgh. Canâ€™t help but wonder whether well-placed representatives for the area also had a word in the ears of the Executive.

Nominated by: K Crichton

M74 motorway extension

Area: Glasgow City Centre to east end

Reason: Its crazy to be completing roads and encouraging more traffic when we know what we know about global warming. We should also learn the lessons from the M8 - building a motorway through a city centre is not conducive to civic living. The Reporter said the road should not go ahead - but that was ignored by the Executive.

Nominated by: Frances McCartney

M74 extension

Area: South side of Glasgow

Reason: The M74 goes against many of the claimed policies of government. The road will reduce social inclusion in the area. Most people who live there don't have cars and we know that motorways on stilts split communities. The road is for rich people to drive past a poor area, as is the case with the M77. Government claims that it wants to stabilise and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Transport is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases and encouraging more motoring is not going to help the targets. The project is so bad that even a government planning inquiry recommended against building it. That is fairly unique, but still the party politicians want to build it.

Nominated by: David Hansen

M74 northern Extension

Area: Glasgow

Reason: Even the Scottish Exectutive's Public Local Inquiry said it should never be built and will have a devastating effect on the south of Glasgow

Nominated by: Sandy Campbell

M74 extension

Area: Glasgow

Reason: In other cities they would look at an urban motorway like the M8 with disgust, and give thoughts as to what can be done to reduce its impact. In Glasgow, they want to build another such monster!

Nominated by: Christian Schmidt

M74 extension

Area: Glasgow

Reason: A ridiculous project guaranteed to increase pollution, damage health, divide communities and create a monstrosity on 40 foot stilts through the southside of Glasgow.

Nominated by: Stephen Rolfe

proposed marina development

Area: Granton West harbour Edinburgh

Reason: A commercial marina is proposed with no effective shore-side facilities except a cash desk. Large sailing vessels that would otherwise come to Granton and add colour to the scene will be excluded. One of the two existing sailing clubs with many members in the immediate locality, and prospective members from the housing developments may well lose all its yard space thus putting its survival in doubt and compromising its goal of widening participation. What other capital city would squander this opportunity to develop the coastal area in a sensitive and constructive way? The only marina in Edinburgh (Port Edgar hardly counts), in Granton East harbour, is run on a shoe string by the two yacht clubs and welcomes visitors including many from continental Europe.

Nominated by: Graham Russell

M74 Northern Extension

Area: Glasgow

Reason: Evidence from Public Local Inquiry proved what locals know - environmental disaster, increased traffic, no economic benefit. Glasgow City Council and Scottish Executive nonetheless insisting on pushing ahead

Nominated by: Chloe Stewart

Glasgow HarbourRenfrew Riverside

Area: Renfrew

Reason: Abismal urban design and building design, affecton River Clyde, dictated by rapacious developers, ignoring public opposition

Nominated by: M MacAulay

Riverside development

Area: Renfrew

Reason: A project to develop the river by putting up more flats and driving local industry out of the area and the country, contrary to Jack McConnells idea to encourage ex-pats back he is making skilled craftsman leave to other countries

Nominated by: Maryellen Campbell

EISGEIN WINDFARM, LEWIS WINDPOWER, BARVAS MOOR, LINSIADAR

Area: Western Isles

Reason: The proposed windfarms are vastly out of proportion & unsympathetic to the native Hebridean vernacular landscape. The installation of hundreds of turbines and infrastructure in this area implies a lack of respect for the landscape value, conservation interest and a complete lack of concern about carbon emissions. Active peatlands are a carbon store and have an important role in regulating climate change. Wetlands, including bogs, store over three times as much carbon for a given area as tropical rainforest. When peatlands are disturbed, CO2 is returned to atmosphere. There are also the direct effects on landscape and drainage, the many concrete-filled bases underground to stabilise turbine towers will cause serious environmental damage – all conveniently ignored by advocates of the windfarm industry.

Nominated by: ruari beaton

Argos/ Homebase Retail Park

Area: Linlithgow

Reason: Linlithgow is a beautiful little town with real architectural merit and a clutch of truly historic buildings. It is a town that cries out to be lived in. The nominated retail park is being built on a hugely visible and central part of the town where there should be houses, a park, anything but two lumpen tin sheds. It drags the entire area down. There were ideal sites on the industrial estate at the north-west edge of the town, or in Bo'ness on a brownfield site. But no, these developers have to destroy a site at the heart of one of our few really charming towns

Nominated by: Gordon Struth

Glasgow harbour retail/leisure and next phase of housing

Area: Glasgow

Reason: point blocks proposed for housing reminiscent of teh worst of 60's municipal housing - have we learnt nothing! Leisure/ retail element further reinv=frcing teh uninspiring and isolated architecture of Glasgow Harbour. A missed opportunity and triumph of private grreed over public need.

Nominated by: M Land

Scottish Parliament

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: For a complete waste of taxpayers money to allow a lot of hot air to be debated.

Nominated by: Robert Young

5 storey car park - Gartnavel General Hospital Beatson Phase 2

Area: Grounds of Gartnavel Hospital, Great Western Rd, Glasgow

Reason: Public transport improvements have been neglected in favour of a larger carpark which will be sited within 30 feet of people's bedroom windows. Lack of consultation with residents most badly affected - while consultation seems to have been good with residents living much further away. See masterplan for Beatson Phase 2.

Nominated by: Elizabeth McGowan

A71 miniroundabout

Area: Strathaven

Reason: Now even more difficult to cross the village

Nominated by: J Newton

M74 Northern Extension

Area: Southside of Glasgow

Reason: A stretch of urban motorway through the southside of Glasgow on 40 foot concrete stilts what a mad idea. I'm sure it will add to the feel of Glasgow as a city the exists to have motorways driven through it suggesting that if you do visit you'll want to leave as quickly as possible. Of course what can you expect from the lib/lab idiots in the Scottish Executive.

Nominated by: Gordon Masterton

Carrick & Custom House Quays

Area: Clyde Street, Glasgow

Reason: Building on the very riverbank will mean that the view of the river will be blocked except if you are actually within feet of the water. Access even to there will be effectively curtailed. The Council had the opportunity to clear the ill-advised 1970s hard landsacaping which was a resort for every sort of ne'er-do-well and replace it with lawns gently sloping to the river, a haven for the citizens, easily maintained and a pleasant spot for tourists and Glaswegians alike. The present plans will diminish the attractiveness of the graceful suspension bridge. The development will create an ugly canyon in Clyde Street and encourage muggers, drunks, druggies and prostitutes. A thoroughly bad idea.

Nominated by: Vince McGlennan

Antonine Centre

Area: Cumbernauld Town Centre

Reason: If ever gets of ground as being promised by all - another growth to rabbit warren on stilts - bears no relation or helpd existing problem

Nominated by: Pete Reid

The Borders rail project

Area: Edinburgh - Borders

Reason: Its the most ridiculous waste of money - pure pork barrel decision

Nominated by: Rob Malcolm

M74 Northern Extension

Area: Glasgow

Reason: While the rest of the world's cities look to the future with first rate public transport systems and urban design that reduces unnecessary travel, Glasgow just wants another urban motorway to dump a couple of hundred thousand more cars into the city centre each day. 1960s road-building hell still thrives in west central Scotland!

Nominated by: Patrick Harvie

Cumbernauld Town Centre

Area: Town Centre

Reason: the proposed new centre (it has been proposed for many years mind you) will have no connectionto the existing 'thing' that is there. Why should I worry as it will never be built anyway!!

Nominated by: Adrian Waddell

new cumbernauld shopping centre

Area: cumbernauld

Reason: it has been talked about for years, the design must be so bad that the designers are too embarresed to show it off

Nominated by: Jim Kerr

Cumbernauld

Area: Town Centre

Reason: A feeble attempt at patching it up. Everybody knows it needs bulldozed and redesigned properly.

Nominated by: Tom Bell

Auchenkilns Roundabout/Mock Village adjacent to...

Area: Cumbernauld!

Reason: Disgusting, disgraceful, horribly planned, massive traffic burden, too many cars trying to go through and no clear alternative route given...and the mock village that has been built next to it for a pub chain? Disgusting and ever-so-twee!

Nominated by: Iain Podesta

New Cathkin High School development

Area: Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire

Reason: It is in contravention of the local plan and the Council are supporting the loss of a major open green space [a community park] quite unnecessarily as the new facility could be built on the existing site.

Nominated by: EdV

Helensburgh Local Plan

Area: Helensburgh Green Belt

Reason: Helensburgh is being strangled and lack of new housing is preventing the local economy. Also pricing existing houses outwith the pocket of first time buyers.

Nominated by: Graham Thomson

New Cathkin High School

Area: Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire

Reason: In contravention of the local plan, the proposal will result in the loss of well-used open green space totally unnecessarily since the development could proceed on the existing school site.

Nominated by: Elaine de Vries

The North Lewis Windfarm

Area: Isle of Lewis

Reason: Disaster for Habitats and species, including some endangered bird species, disaster for landscape and visual impact (one would never escape the sight of turbines), potential to damage health (pylons etc), shadow flicker, noise, desecration of pristine peatlands and SAC that have full EU protection. Potential to destroy the vital tourist industry. But our local council Comhairle nan Eilean Siar have approved this development, it is now with the Scottish Exec who have the final veto on this. There have been thousands of objections - an unprecedented number for any windfarm.

Nominated by: Dina Murray

AMEC's Lewis Wind

Area: north end of Isle of Lewis

Reason: You have to ask?

Nominated by: David Bruce

The North Lewis Windfarm.

Area: Isle of Lewis

Reason: Does the landscape of North Lewis have to be sacrificed,and flung into the vortex of 'negative inflation';in order to save the vanities of some of the bumbling incompetence of 'Orwell House',Springfield Rd,Stornoway...Hmm?..If ever a new broom was needed!

Nominated by: John Smith

M74

Area: Glasgow

Reason: A disgraceful decision morally and a complete waste of money.

Nominated by: Malcy Duff

Science & Technology Building

Area: Lilybank Gardens

Reason: Too close to the Q.M. Building

Nominated by: D. Clar

Zit Building Nominees

Unite student halls

Area: Caledonian University

Reason: Totally uninspiring gateway to Glasgow - and depressing environment for future generations

Nominated by: meagain

The new BBC Headquarters

Area: Pacific Quay, Glasgow

Reason: It is just like a big box with no interesting external features at all. Â Moreover, it now blocks out the view, from the east, of the more interesting Science Centre and Imax Cinema buildings. Such a high-profile organisation could, I am sure, have had a superb building built. Â It may be beautiful inside but is not at all pleasing externally to anyone I have spoken to. Â Â Bad marks, too, to the Planning people at Glasgow Council for allowing this building to go ahead.

Nominated by: Iris Moffat

Trinity Housing Development by Bellway Homes

Area: Glasgow, G44

Reason: Where other gap sites in Clarkston Road have been filled with reasonably tasteful attempts at mirroring the old tenements - Toledo Court at Muirend is a good example of what can be done to preserve an image - Trinity is just awful. Over 2 sites either side of an 18th century cottage and a short row of Victorian flats, a cheap looking red and grey design, it has little to recommend it. I gather the locals were not too happy about the style and I for one hate passing it on my way into the City Centre. I'm sorry I don't have a picture of it - please go and have a look and see what you think. Leaving Glasgow, go past the Couper Institute and Trinity Church. You can't miss this eyesore!!

Nominated by: Karen McQueen

The Scottish Parliament

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: This is the ugliest new parliament building in the world. Canberra comes second. A design chosen by a panel of well meaning under-achievers. Its too busy, it looks like the head office of a dying shipping company. Poor visual impact, very boring design, unimpressive, will probably fall apart in 30 years. Maybe then, they will build a good one.

Nominated by: Bill Birrell

The Matrix Glasgow

Area: Glasgow

Reason: OK right picture the scene a few men sat round a table when one of them says â€œI know we can put bright orange panels on the side of the building that will look really good, a kind of Rubiks Cube effect. Now in any normal world the other members of that group would have shot them down in flames but no, they didnâ€™t. And what did we get, a building that makes me cringe every time I see it The job ran miles over programme, the finishing is truly dreadful and I cant even start to imagine how much money the developer and the contractor lost on the project and to top it all off it is still sitting half empty !. You could argue that Glasgow wasnâ€™t ready for such a radical building or you could just say that Glaswegians werenâ€™t taking in by stupid tacky gimmicks. Al least the UGC Cinema isnâ€™t far away so it can keep it company

Nominated by: Abbey Donaldson

Tesco Extra Store

Area: Dumfries

Reason: Overwhelmingly large building with one blank white wall and another covered with garish signs

Nominated by: Alex Anderson

SMG HQ

Area: Govan

Reason: Not counting Border, this must be the most boring TV station in the world. Its proximity to the BBC makes it look all the more ridiculous. A Portacabin has better detailing.

Nominated by:

tin shack habitat cafe

Area: glasgow

Reason: set upon the plinth in front of Alexander Thomson's St Vincent Street Church and above Habitat , this potentially promising idea, perhaps conceived and no doubt approved as a high quality , well detailed cafe space has been so poorly constructed with obviously so little investment given it looks more like a crude, tin shack tool shed. It would be hard to imagine anyone chosing to sit there , it certainly does not provide any quality of design or space. It must be a winner

Nominated by: William Young

Omni Centre

Area: Leith Street, Edinburgh

Reason: Prime city-centre space cutting into view of Calton Hill with anonymous, corporate, bland design.

Nominated by: Ruth Hedges

Scottish Parliament

Area: Holyrood Edinburgh

Reason: Dysfunctional, design failure, a blot on Edinburgh's stunning architecture

Nominated by: Mairi Robertson

unite student halls

Area: caledonian university

Reason: ugly - very prominent introduction to glasgow

Nominated by: ck

Jury's Inn

Area: Market Street, Edinburgh

Reason: I realise that this fits into no category, but I think you should set up a "special award" just to recognise the Jury's Inn in Edinburgh. Apart from Waverley Station itself, which is at least hidden in a valley, this hotel is a ghastly and jarring piece of 1960s architecture in a beautiful city centre. The sight of it from George IV Bridge, with Arthur's Seat in the background, makes you wish that there was an equivalent of a war crimes tribunal for city planners. I regret that the only exterior photograph I could find on the internet was a tiny little thing http://www.flyingvisits.ie/Edinburgh/Images/index.6.jpg. Unsurprisingly all the images on websites hoping to convince you to stay at the Jury's Inn are close-ups of the door or a highly romanticised artist's impression of the building. If I lived in Edinburgh I would hold a vigil outside the building with a petition for its destruction.

Nominated by: Jack Malvern

Couper St. Appartement Building

Area: Leith, Edinburgh

Reason: Not sure who the architect or developer was, but this has got to be the ugliest building in Scotland, and sadly typical of many new-build residential developments in the capital.

Nominated by: John Lewis

Holiday Inn

Area: Leith

Reason: hahahahaha. Just look at it. Seriously, look at it. I mean, honestly. It's a shed. It's a bloody shed. And people are supposed to come and stay there and think Edinburgh is somehow a cool and groovy place. Hahahahaha. Who are we kidding?

Nominated by: brian kennedy

car park at glasgow royal infirmary

Area: high st, glasgow

Reason: located beside a beautiful old building of the GRI. missed opportunately.

Nominated by: mpmcgowan

Waterfront

Area: Adjacent to town centre Greenock, and unfortunately seen from river and landside.

Reason: The design may be 'modern' but that doesn't make it sympathetic to it's surroundings, but lets face it, this monstrosity is only one of many very outrageous designs within the town centre vicinity.

Nominated by: Ray Cave

Scottish Parliament

Area: Holyrood, Edinburgh

Reason: What a mish-mash of contrasting styles with no continuity to the supposed theme. That said the "upturned boats" theme should have been killed at birth.

Nominated by: I Davies

Glasgow Fort

Area: M8/ Easterhouse

Reason: Faceless 'landmark' visible to thousands of people every day and providing no enriching experience

Nominated by: M MacAulay

Jubille building and car park at GRI

Area: Glasgow Royal infirmary

Reason: There was no need to move it as the location at Bearsden was ideal for the type of patients,It is now a smaller hospital with an increase in consultants and and ever increasing demand on its services the lay out does not suite the patients the outpatient corridor is a prime example access is dreadful patient cannot afford to park and as a result of parking difficults staff are choosing to leave

Nominated by: Maryellen Campbell

Glasgow Harbour - Park Lane building

Area: Glasgow Harbour

Reason: dismal architecture - meaningless public spaces

Nominated by: M Land

The Paper Mill on Ayr Bypass

Area: Outside Irvine

Reason: A blight on what should be a tourist area. The Mill will probably shut and remain a blot on the landscape

Nominated by: Robert Young

harbour side housing

Area: ardrossan

Reason: cheap and nasty , put up just to make money, will become slums quite soon

Nominated by: r cooper

The Matrix

Area: Cowcaddens Glasgow

Reason: Its just nasty! Its all messed up colours- someone was one acid when it was designed, it doesn't fit in with its surroundings (admittedly they aren't nice either on the whole!) but the worst thing about ot is that the architects and builders clearly think it fabulous! They call it art, they promote it as art and really its just a rank rotten builging block building!

Nominated by: Katie Moore

The Scottish Parliament Building

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: It's hideous and cost a fortune, what more needs to be said?

Nominated by: Deborah Carsey

Unite Student Halls

Area: Glasgow

Reason: What a horrible return to 1960's towerblock construction, the fact that it is right next to the motorway only makes the gatewat to Glasgow that much more depressing with so many poor buildings along the route. I feel sorry for the poor students that have to live in it all that pollution can't be good for your health.

Nominated by: Gordon Masterton

The Pinnacle

Area: Glasgow

Reason: It looks like a cross between an STD clinic and a Travel-Inn.

Nominated by: Daniel Murray

Glasgow Harbour

Area: Ckyde, Glasgow

Reason: Building high rises in Glasgow...really imaginative and forward thinking. havent we been here before. This time make them expensive...when the crash comes and the urban rich leave for their natural habitat of Bearsden, they will fall into disrepair and eventually by 2030 resemble the red road flats by the the river. Hurrah, then we can have another competition to knock them down and build some revolutionary new architectural concept. Living in the clouds it be the work of the devil... but it might just work...hmmm

Nominated by: Bryan Donnelly

Scottish Parliament Building

Area: Holyrood, Edinburgh

Reason: It looks daft. What an embarrassment that it cost that much money to build an example of how "Not to be an Architect".

Nominated by: David Worton

The Monument Building

Area: between London Road and Gallowgate at The Barras

Reason: Inappropriate pastel colours. Already looks dirty. Instant slum. Build there by all means, but with material more sympathetic to Glasgow's traditions.

Nominated by: Vince McGlennan

Stranraer

Area: Stranraer Academy

Reason: Extremely ugly, unfinished building which should be burnt to the ground.

Nominated by: Spunky

The Scottish Parliament

Area: Edinburgh

Reason: Its gloomy, doesnt work, is ridiculously expensive - where do you start? But mainly its incredibly ugly - the upturned boats are fine when you look at them from above, but from inside and around, the building is a complete mish mash - the worst bits are the idiotic bamboo pole thingies across all the walls and windows and the ludicrous chicken shaped windows.

Nominated by: Rob Malcolm

Bus Shelter Made of Brick

Area: Ayr Town Centre

Reason: The council spent Â£30,000. On an eyesore which has become a public toilet at night by drunk revellers. While the town's famous Tourist Attractions. Namely Burns Cottage is left to ruin. The Bus shelter is a long brick wall. A complete eyesore. Give South Ayrshire a Kick up their Bahookie

Nominated by: Jason Kelly

Multi storey Block & Medical Centre

Area: Lindsay Road, Edinburgh

Reason: In an area of town that is desperately seeking life, colour and rejuvenation rise a block of flats built with the drabbest Grey Bricks ever to come out of a brickworks. Its' dismal facade is only matched by the Social Security building some 100 yards East of it. Perhaps the two buildings are having a private 'Zit' competition to themselves.

Nominated by: Brian Pennycook

National Insurance Office

Area: Dalrymple St, Greenock

Reason: Miserable piece of architeture, made more miserable by the dejected look of it's visitors.

Nominated by: A. Gallacher

Scottish Parliament Building

Area: Holyrood, Edinburgh

Reason: Built in the wrong place. Should have been built in Cumbernauld - to replace one eysore (the Town Centre) with a newer one! Well, it would make a change wouldn't it?

Nominated by: Tom Bell

New-build houses at Glasgow Necropolis

Area: The Necropolis!

Reason: Buy a new house. Thats fine. But for gods' sake - next to a graveyard? Imagine getting up and looking out and seeing nothing but gravestones! Are these people insane? And how do we know that the houses aren't built on top of older graves? Haven't these planners seen Poltergeist? I think not!

Nominated by: Iain Podesta

The Scottish Parliament Building

Area: Holyrood, Edinburgh

Reason: Ugly, depressing and a full faceworth of acne, particularly the Berlin Wall element - for once graffiti might be an enhancement.

Nominated by: EdV

Scottish Parliament Building

Area: S end of High St, Edinburgh

Reason: Holiday home tat where the constructors' undeniable craftsmanship fails to obscure a crap design

Nominated by: David Bruce

Stockbridge Retail Park

Area: Linlithgow

Reason: Over-development of important site at the western entrance to the town. Relatively huge sheds dominating nearby housing and minimal 'landscaping'. Will have severe effect on viability of shops in historic town centre - closures and semi-dereliction may result. Well-designed housing development with boulevard tree planting along the frontage would have created a better scale of development and a much more fitting approach to the town.

Nominated by: Ron Smith

Trinity Flats

Area: Clarkston Rd., Cathcart

Reason: Ugly design and totally out of character with surrounding buildings

Nominated by: Jeananne Kidd

TRINITY HOUSING

Area: CLARKSTON ROAD> GLASGOW

Reason: A MOST UNINSPIRING BUILDING WHICH DOES NOTHING TO ENHANCE THE AREA

Nominated by: D>BURNS

Biomedical Blocks

Area: University Avenue

Reason: What is function of the iron work on the outside walls ? To detract one's attention from the rather cheap tiles stuck on around the side walls of the building ? It should have been clad in natural stone all the wall round, and not just the end wall facing University Avenue. Indeed what a missed opportunity, what a disappointment, and I shall try not to look so closely at it when I pass.

Nominated by: D. Clar