Schemes by PLP and Ian Simpson鈥檚 practice head up a six-strong shortlist for this year鈥檚 Carbuncle Cup.
The competition, run by 好色先生TV鈥檚 sister title BD, was launched in 2006 and is awarded to the 鈥渦gliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months鈥�.
Previous winners of architecture鈥檚 wooden spoon have included Media City at Salford by a number of architects including Wilkinson Eyre and Chapman Taylor, Grimshaw鈥檚 Cutty Sark renovation and Rafael Vinoly鈥檚 Walkie Talkie building.
PLP鈥檚 entry is for the Nova mixed-use scheme in London鈥檚 Victoria which has been masterminded by developer Landsec while Simpson鈥檚 practice, Simpson Haugh, is behind a 17-storey mixed-use development at Battersea Power Station called Circus West. Longer than the Shard when laid on its side, the scheme includes 800 apartments.
Others to make it on to the shortlist include an extension to a private house in Malvern, Worcestershire, and a new entrance to Preston railway station.
The winner will be announced next Wednesday. Judges include Catherine Croft, director of heritage group the Twentieth Century Society, and planner and urbanist David Rudlin, whose firm Urbed won the 2014 Wolfson Prize.
The 2017 shortlist
Nova Victoria by PLP Architecture
Preston Railway Station Butler St entrance by AHR
Greethan Street Student Halls by Cooley Architecture
8 Somers Road, Malvern by Vivid Architects
Circus West, Battersea Power Station by Simpson Haugh
Park Plaza London Waterloo by ESA Architecture
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