Britain's ugliest new buildings named Among the listed designs is The Premier Inn (below), Lambeth. Built on the site of a neo-Georgian 1930s red-brick building, it is described by its nominator as an "abysmal, identikit" building. "It's hard to imagine a less inviting frontage," they add. The Port Eirias Watersports Centre (below) in Colwyn Bay is also in the reckoning for the gong. It is "oppressively bland, shaped like a dumpster, and totally insensitive to the beautiful surrounding coast," according to the magazine. Also catching judges" eyes was the Redcar Beacon, a viewing tower or "vertical pier" in Cleveland which has been dismissed by Carbuncle organisers as a "monstrosity." "The council were asked by the locals not to build it but they did," the magazine adds. They wanted a proper pier. Avant Garde, a "hideous" residential tower in Bethnal Green; Castle Mill Housing in Oxford; and the redevelopment of 465 Caledonian Road, which features "one of the worst facade retention schemes that I have seen," complete the shortlist. Previous nominees include the Museum of Liverpool, the Titanic Belfast Museum, the Cutty Sark Renovation, Westfield Shopping Centre, Liverpool Ferry Terminal, the Radisson SAS Waterfront hotel in Jersey (below), the Holiday Inn in Westhill, Aberdeen, and the harbourside Ibis hotel in Bristol. Last week Hemel Hempstead was named Britain's ugliest town in a poll of 3,000 people.