All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 6
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Bill Price has happy childhood memories of discovering structural design at Coventry cathedral. But the London Research Institute? He can’t even bear to look at it
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Guy Austin revels in Renault’s stunning underground Oxfordshire laboratory but a Hampshire new town is about as much fun as having your teeth drilled without anaesthetic
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George Clarke considers Newcastle’s Swan House an unforgivably ugly duckling. However, the new courtyard in the British Museum is the epitome of elegance …
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Jonathan Goring finds Liverpool’s Academy of St Francis of Assisi inspiring, but reckons it was a dark day in Leeds when planning permission was given to Ian Simpson’s Lumiere
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Martin Playford revisits two grand schemes from the seventies, one a gleaming symbol of the might of the City, the other a sad leftover from a best-forgotten motorway project
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Tom Foulkes salutes Hadrian’s 2,000-year-old Pantheon in Rome, but quietly hopes the brutalist Southbank Centre has a somewhat shorter lifespan
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Charles Saumarez Smith simply adores the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens building, but abhors Battersea’s design desert
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Erica Wagner chooses two avant-garde icons for us, one of them a triumph of American engineering, the other an Anglo-Italian blemish on the Beaubourg
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Prue Leith’s spirit is uplifted by the billowing roof and sense of fun in Richard Rogers’ airport terminal in Madrid. But Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital makes her sick
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Keith Bradley loves his hometown of Bath. The old city of pleasure, with its meandering crescents, that is. Not the faux-Georgian monstrosity of the Southgate shopping centre
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Roger Alton is at home at Terminal 5, but needs a map to find his way around the Barbican
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Clive Sayer salutes a 5,000-year-old citadel, but is less impressed by a more short-term project …
My wonder is the fortified Cité de Carcassonne, the origins of which can be traced back to 3500 BC.
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David Mann tells a tale of two shopping malls, one in the friendly North, the other in the grim South
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Brian Berry compares a Georgian version of the ideal terrace with an advanced modern slum
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Louis Kahn’s gallery in Yale works brilliantly with the art inside, whereas Lord Foster’s simply belittles it
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IM Pei’s Suzhou Museum is a masterly modern take on Chinese traditional buildings, says Pak Hung Lai, whereas the Shanghai Convention Centre is just, well, balls
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Tony Benn finds peace and tranquility in the heart of New York, before going on the warpath against an old foe
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An 18th-century reworking of a German palace is first class, but a student hostel in Oxford barely scrapes a third, says Daniel Moylan
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A tale of two London stations this week – one a glorious example of what the new can bring to the old, the other a grim warning of what it can take away, says Robert Clark
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The decorative, anti-modernist efforts of Goodhart-Rendel excite Alan Powers but the patterned facade of the Blue Fin Building is a damp squib