All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 3
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CommentWonders & blunders with Luke Schuberth
Transport interchanges are a major part of our experience of a city, says Luke Schuberth. He compares the gothic glory of King’s Cross St Pancras to the confusion of Hammersmith
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CommentWonders & blunders with Martin Winch
The Albert Memorial is a fitting tribute to a former Royal consort, while Tolworth Tower remains an uninspiring piece of suburban architecture
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CommentWonders & blunders with Debbie Whitfield
The country’s first council estate is a great example of people-focused architecture, whilst the Tottenham Court Road one-way system is just badly thought out
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CommentWonders & blunders with Matt Lown
Matt Lown hails the impressive comeback of a sixties icon, and blows the whistle on a former MI6 building unconvincingly disguised as an apartment block
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CommentWonders & blunders with Bridget Sawyers
Bridget Sawyers thinks the elegant simplicty of the Olympic velodome deserves a lap of victory, but St George Wharf on the Thames should be disqualified
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CommentWonders & blunders with Oliver Richards
Dream holiday home in the New Forest the Watson House is a delight, while the interior of the Renaissance Hotel St Pancras is a missed opportunity, says Oliver Richards
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CommentWonders & blunders with Simon Campbell
The Titanic Belfast embodies the history and ambition of Simon Campbell’s city, while the Obel Tower across the river simply looms over it
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CommentWonders & blunders with Patricia Moore
Patricia Moore praises the sensitive yet glorious refurbishment of King’s Cross station in London, but shies away from drab, dingy Euston just a few yards down the road
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CommentWonders & blunders with Matthew Cousins
Matthew Cousins follows the yellow brick road to the diverse Accordia housing development in Cambridge - but is stopped in his tracks by a soulless Libeskind building in Holloway
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CommentWonders & blunders with Rod Taylor
For Rod Taylor the sense of space in Rome’s Pantheon is awe-inspiring, but the empty seats in the second halves of Wembley matches leave the stadium bereft of any atmosphere
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NewsWonders & blunders with David Mosey
David Mosey is content in a traffic jam if gazing at the Hoover Building’s art deco frontage, but the imposing Gothic facade of the Royal Courts of Justice makes him hail the nearest cab
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CommentWonders & blunders with Ian Blacker
Ian Blacker delights in the inclusiveness of Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 pavilion, but flinches while walking past the clumsy St George Wharf riverside housing tower
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CommentWonders & blunders with Ben Adams
Ben Adams finds spiritual inspiration in the staying power of the Temple Church but searches in vain for a lasting sense of community at the athletes’ village
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CommentWonders & blunders with Jeremy Till
Jeremy Till celebrates the democratic, contested space of Tent City outside St Paul’s but decries the increasing privatisation of our cities, symbolised by the gate to Paternoster Square
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CommentOlympic wonders & blunders with Jack Pringle
Why partner at Pringle Brandon thinks Hopkins’ velodrome races to victory over Anish Kapoor’s Orbit
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CommentWonders & blunders with Richard Rose Casemore
Richard Rose-Casemore delights in the ecclesiastical serendipity of the Maria-Magdalena Church but the Tate at St Ives fails to live up to the beauty of its surroundings
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CommentWonders & blunders with Keith Pickavance
Keith Pickavance delights in the eccentricity of the Lloyd’s Building but the Prince of Wales’ fire station in Poundbury deserves to have the hose turned on it
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CommentWonders & blunders with Marta Nowicka
Marta Nowicka finds herself transported by the introspective spaces of a private house in Notting Hill - but London Met’s Graduate Centre does her head in
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CommentWonders & blunders with Richard Piggott
Richard Piggott is inspired by the curving stone facade of Unilever House, but stony-faced when it comes to the Park Plaza Hotel with its unusual choice of materials
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CommentWonders & blunders with Dominic Cullinan
Dominic Cullinan takes us on a science fiction tour of London - from the half-imagined ‘bulging cheeks’ of Old Street to the three bronzed sisters of the Barbican