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The Walkie -Talkie could be crowned Britain’s ugliest new building after topping a shortlist for the annual Carbuncle Cup.

The City skyscraper, officially known as 20 Fenchurch Street, received the most nominsations out of six buildings shortlisted for the award.

The gong was set up by Building Design magazine to acknowledge the nation's worst new building - and this year all but two on the shortlist are in London.

The magazine said the Walkie-Talkie received the most votes and also generated the most online debate, with one person commenting: "I now have a new personal goal: to live long enough to see this building demolished."

It was described as a "ghastly eyesore" by another poster while one claimed the other nominees "might as well go home now".

Student halls complex Woodward Hall in North Acton also made the list, after so outraging local resident Jonathan Notley he stood in the general election on an anti-development platform in Ealing.

The other London nominees were Parliament House, a 23-storey residential block close to the River Thames in Lambeth, and a boxy extension to the Waltham Forest YMCA, opposite Walthamstow Town Hall, decorated in two tones of grey.

Announcing the list, Building Design said: "Sadly mediocre architecture is rife in our towns and cities with too many new buildings blighting rather than improving the built environment.

"These buildings suffer from a number of failings including blank, faceless facades, cheap shouty cladding, bad proportions and ill-conceived design 'features'.

"Frequently examples of gross overdevelopment, rather than mitigating their impact, too many of these buildings stick two fingers up to their context."

The winner will be announced on Wednesday.