A TYPICAL NATIONAL CARBUNCLE PRIZEWINNER |
The Chelsea Barracks is one such example of a monster suited to Dubai but not elegant Chelsea.
MISARA has set up an award...the Carbuncle Award and Chelsea residents have just one week to nominate a local building which should never have been allowed to see the light of day.
Please read below and hurry with your nomination/s: you have just seven days to get them in.
To: All Residents' Associations in Chelsea
Dear Fellow Residents,
Late last year the Milner
Street Area Residents' Association (MISARA) announced that it would inaugurate
an annual award for the ugliest new building in Chelsea, to be known as the
Chelsea Carbuncle. Residents and others are encouraged to submit nominations
for the award, for which the winner will be chosen by a panel of three
distinguished judges, of whom details are given below. "Chelsea"
means that part of RBK&C south of Fulham Road, Walton Street and Pont
Street, "new building" means anything built in recent years, and the
judges will be at liberty to confer such other awards as they see fit.
Do please circulate this
information to all your members, and encourage them to submit nominations by
sending an email with photographs of the buildings to our email address
(above): milnerresidents@pobox.com.
Timeline
The deadline for
nominations is Monday 21 October at 23.59. The judges will be
meeting on 28 October for a tour of the nominated buildings. The winners will
be announced at MISARA's Annual General Meeting on 5 November.
MISARA has purchased three
wooden spoons as prizes, and will invite representatives of the architects, the
developer and the planning officers to the AGM to collect them. The chairman of
the judges, Dr. John Martin Robinson, will make a short speech to explain the
judges' decisions. Photographers will be on hand to record the occasion.
Acknowledgement
In 2006 Building
Design, the specialist weekly magazine widely read by the architectural
profession initiated a popular annual competition for the ugliest new
building in the UK, with the winner receiving the Carbuncle Cup. Candidates are
submitted by readers across the country and the winner is selected by a panel
of judges from a shortlist of six ugly buildings publicised with short
descriptions and photographs on the magazine's website. We are happy to
acknowledge this with gratitude as our original inspiration for the Chelsea
Carbuncle.
Pious
Aspiration
We hope that the annual
award of the Chelsea Carbuncle, of which the award in 2019 will be the first, will lead over time to a visible improvement in new building design in Chelsea.
We look forward to hearing
from you.
Best wishes,
Richard Grantley
Chairman, MISARA
Details of the judges:
Dr John
Martin Robinson is one of Britain's best known
architectural historians.
Will
Palin is Director of Conservation at the Old Royal
Naval College, Greenwich.
Anthony
Delarue is a distinguished church architect.
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