LONDON—L.A.-based Hamilton Architects has just won a closely contested architectural award, but you are not likely to see the firm boasting about it anytime soon. Building Design magazine has given its Carbuncle Prize to the Hamilton-designed Liverpool Ferry Terminal, naming it the worst building constructed in Britain in the past 12 months. The terminal edged out eight other finalists that had been short-listed for the annual award, now in its fourth year. Readers from around Britain nominated works they deemed particularly inept, and a jury of critics and architects made the final selection.

“It wasn’t just a matter of choosing the ugliest,” Ellis Woodman, a member of the jury, wrote in the Telegraph. The jury considered the budget for the project, its functionality, and its setting, not just how it appeared from the outside. In a group of “hideous” finalists, the terminal was uniquely terrible for the opportunity it squandered, Woodman said, noting that it sits near a group of historic buildings in Liverpool known as the "Three Graces" — the Royal Liver, the Cunard, and the Port of Liverpool buildings — and disgraces them all with its presence.

Read more at the Telegraph.