By the time the new Millennium arrived, Cumbernauld Town Centre had become a laughing stock, the butt of jokes and regularly named one of the country’s ugliest buildings. It won the 'Carbuncle Award’, the so-called ‘Plook on a Plinth’ twice - in 2001 and 2005. Also in 2005, it was named the ‘winner’ of Channel 4’s series Demolition, where viewers could vote for the building they most wanted to see demolished out of a shortlist of 12. In this section, we highlight stories looking at both of these unwelcome ‘victories’.