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Bulldoze 'em: our ugliest buildings

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / October 31

These are the eyesores listed by Scotland's top architects as fit for for the bulldozer. They want a new X-List status to be slapped on our ugliest buildings. And their radical proposals include tax incentives to encourage demolition and replacement of the nasties. Only 'irredeemable' buildings would make it on to the list, with each rated X to XXX, depending on how urgent its destruction is viewed. The 'Bottom 10' ugly piles range from a '1980s version of the Bates Motel' - the Queensferry Lodge Hotel - to a 'blight on the landscape' - Edinburgh's St James Centre. The plan was launched by George Ferguson, 57, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. And it has been backed by Gordon Murray, President of the Royal Institute of Architecture in Scotland.

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