Circus West in Battersea Power Station is on the shortlist for an award given to the worst architectural building in the United Kingdom.

The Carbuncle Cup is an architecture award for "Britain's worst building", an honour given out annually by Building Design magazine.

"Our six strong shortlist contains a mix of buildings types of differing scales and demonstrates that buildings don’t have to be big to be bad and that poor quality architecture touches all building types," its website says.

"Carbuncle Cup contenders suffer from a range of sins including gross overdevelopment, eye popping cladding, overbearing massing, a gross disregard for context, incoherent form, overblown ‘statement’ buildings, weak planning and the just plain, cheap and nasty."

Part of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, Circus West, by Simpson Haugh, is one of three architectural structures in the capital to have made this year's list.

A shortlist was said to be selected by a panel of judges after considering magazine readers' comments.

If Circus West wins, then an architectural structure in London will have been awarded the Carbuncle Cup five consecutive times since it began nine years ago in 2006.

The winner will be announced next Wednesday (September 6).