I WAS at Pier Approach Sunday, August 14, on one of the busiest days of the summer for tourists and locals alike. And I noticed just beyond the lovely water feature we now have a grotesque, large, ...

A CARBUNCLE can be defined as an abscess that is larger than a boil. The St James Centre, Edinburgh's "concrete carbuncle", is a very large boil indeed, and it is good that it is at long last to be ...

THERE is nothing more beautiful the human eye can focus on than a 1960s concrete carbuncle at the moment it is transformed into dust by demolition experts. THERE is nothing more beautiful the human ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The thing about the Carbuncle Cup is that it’s always too late. It’s a posthumous prize. Ridiculing hideous ...

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