'Experts' have claimed Nottingham's Victoria Centre is one of the UK's ugliest buildings. The 1960s building sits on the site of a former railway station and is one of the best-known buildings in the city.
But ParrotPrint.com, a UK art, photography and printing company, has now drawn up a list of the UK's 10 ugliest buildings, which includes the Victoria Centre.
In its comments on the centre, the company says: "This well-known shopping centre in the heart of Nottingham city centre stands on the site of the previous railway station which was demolished in the late-1960s. Just the hotel and clock tower remains of the old, charming architecture and was replaced by the unattractive, concrete shopping centre."
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Other buildings across the UK to be featured on the list include the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and the Belfast City Hospital in Northern Ireland. Matt Dahan, from ParrotPrint.com, said: "Architects have understood since the dawn of construction that a building should be functional and beautiful.
"However, this concept has been lost in these designs. I would go as far as to say these are crimes against architecture.
"If I were in the area, I would not even want to look up at them. Many of these buildings across the country are certainly the definition of the brutalist architecture style which swept designers in the 1950s to 70s."
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