All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 10
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Tom Wright praises a Foster and Partners building inspired by apples, but has only a raspberry for a Parisian landmark
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A train station-cum-ballroom sends Charlie Luxton into a transport of delight, but a British airport is a pain in the neck
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Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
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We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport
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David Birkbeck finds populist excitement at an Essex town, but only prophylactic disappointment in an East End designer home
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Paul Burgess praises an atrium that makes the heart soar, but missed chances just make it sore. And check out the new Back Issues …
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Ian MacMillan admires the brutal emotion of a Holocaust memorial but is horrified by a riverside London apartment block
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Anthony Wilson picks two modern Mancunian buildings, one a triumph of architectural art, the other … er, you’d better read it yourself
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Trisha Gupta rejoices in the art nouveau interior of an unimposing Essex church, but fails to see why anybody worships the mall
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Tony Miller pays his respects to the shrine of natural history but finds no enlightenment in Le Courbusier’s celebrated chapel
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We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal
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Adrian Tinniswood admires an example of Wren's post-Fire reconstruction but despairs at a more recent act of demolition
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Mike Driver bends a reverential knee to a Finnish church but makes the sign of the cross before a north London office block …
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James Sunley takes his hat off to the wonders of the Michelin building, then thumbs his nose at David Wilson's anonymous estate
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Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier
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Joan Bakewell gives rave reviews to an institutional home for books, but a north London theatre gets a scathing critique
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Ben Schott likes nothing better than a glass of dry sherry in Barry's Reform Club, but the London Eye gives him a funny turn
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Dawn Gibbins is drawn to the natural light of Belfast City Hall, but the gloom of industrial sheds has her voting with her feet
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I take a dim view of 5000-year-old project management, but look kindly on a 21st-century model of good practice
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Simon Allford raises a cheer for a much-loved oval but is unable to celebrate one of the world's most famous squares