The Sunday Times

It has already been named Scotland's least attractive town — twice. Now Cumbernauld can also claim the dubious distinction of housing Britain's ugliest building. The town's 1960s shopping centre, a once-futuristic fusion of glass and ramps on stilts, has topped a Channel 4 poll for the structure that people would most like to see razed to the ground. The building in the hometown of newsreader Jackie Bird and comedian Craig Ferguson will be crowned with the unenviable honour this week in a special Christmas edition of the series Demolition. The dubious accolade has inspired Gordon Murray, a leading Scottish architect, to draw up a blueprint which, he believes, could transform the town.