The redevelopment of Lime Street in Liverpool by British studio Broadway Malyan has been named the country’s worst new building in this year’s Carbuncle Cup.

Organised by UK magazine The Fence, judges chose the Lime Street redevelopment as the “very worst new building in Britain”, since the competition was last run in 2018.

“From the very first viewing, two of our panel had this as their number one selection, and as the longlist was narrowed to a shortlist, this hideous bit of architectural misadventure continued to stick out,” said The Fence in the award announcement.

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“A bunch of developers have been allowed to knock down a happy, eclectic row of buildings – including the much-loved, sorely-missed Futurist cinema – and replaced it with such nothingness,” said Architectural Record contributor and jury chair Tim Abrahams.

“Such banality that their only option is to cover it with a screen, upon which they have drawn portraits of those same old demolished buildings,” he continued. “Greed has rarely looked so greedy.”