The Globe and Mail

Architects beware: The public is going to say whether your building design is pretty -- or pretty ugly. Voting started this week for the Pugly Awards, a contest on the Web in which visitors vote on the nicest and ugliest buildings in downtown Toronto. "We've been a little disheartened in the last couple of years," Anna Simone, co-founder of the awards, said about the look of the city's newest buildings. "There have been missed opportunities." Twenty buildings, each completed during 2004, are on the list. To qualify, residential buildings need to have more than 100 units, and commercial or institutional buildings must be larger than 50,000 square feet.