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It has singed shopfronts, melted cars and caused great gusts of wind to sweep pedestrians off their feet. Now the Walkie Talkie tower, the bulbous comedy villain of London’s skyline, has been bestowed with the Carbuncle Cup by Building Design (BD) magazine for the worst building of the year.
And it's not the only building with the same problem by that architect.
He should know: he has history with death-ray buildings, having designed a hotel in Las Vegas with a similar concave facade that scorched sunbathers’ hair and melted poolside loungers.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39403349/ns/travel-news/t/death-ray-vegas...…
Added by Joseph Oster at 4:53pm on November 16, 2015