All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 7
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When it comes to materials, Sir Bernard Ingham finds his soul lifted by the power and grandeur of stone, while modern alternatives suggest mere derangement
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Two English icons inpire Claire Sweeney: one with pride in the skills of its builders and designers, the other revulsion for the money wasted on it
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A south London bus garage provides a stirring journey’s end while a hideous addition to the Thames riverside just spoils a good walk
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Two takes on modernity this week, one a persuasive discourse on industry and craft, the other a ‘crude and inarticulate’ shout
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Simon McWhirter picks two lots of housing: one a happy and healthy sustainable development, the other a decrepit and depressing tower block
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FeaturesGlenn Howells: Almost famous
Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Noddy Holder … the Midlands has produced its fair share of rock stars. Sadly, frustrated musician Glenn Howells wasn’t one of them. But now, with a Stirling prize nomination to his name, the Birmingham architect is about to get his turn in the limelight.
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Alistair Barr picks two City columns, one a multitalented 17th-century marvel, the other a bang-up-to date failure of nerve and imagination
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Martin Chambers rejoices in the tuneful offerings of Birmingham International Convention Centre but deplores the Soviet-style design of Leeds’ Quarry House
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Charles Graham-Marr celebrates the glory that is Greece but bemoans unenlightened additions to the Edinburgh streetscape
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With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …
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Roger Bolton tells some harsh truths about his home town of Carlisle but is lost in wonder at the eternal city’s temple to all the gods
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Denise Bennetts finds that people are enticed to sit on the ground at Siena’s Piazza del Campo, but want to dash through the space around London’s City Hall
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Vicky Smith picks two Birmingham buildings, one as sharp as a Sabatier knife in an Armani suit, the other an aquarium that combines fear with disappointment …
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Eric Parry hails one bucolic estate in the Square Mile, and rails against many, many others, all over the country
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David Snell, the king of the self-builders, shares his pearls of bungalow wisdom and calls for the cramped modern family house to carry a health warning
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David Bellamy worships the Natural History Museum where he learned about botany, but rails against City Hall for its swarms of security guards
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Simon Birchall marvels at the beauty of Will Alsop’s design for Marseille’s local government headquarters, but rails against inner-city ring roads ...
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German architect Bernd Truempler blows a kiss at the Olympia Park in Munich, and a raspberry for our own dear national stadium …
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Alright, Brompton bicycles and bendy buses aren’t buildings, but they do make a world of difference to the way we enjoy London’s architecture, says Oliver Richards
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