All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 8

  • Will Anderson
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Eco-builder Will Anderson remembers a Finnish house that was a sight for sore (and hungover) eyes. A west London hospital, however, just makes him sick

  • Gary Hughes
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Gary Hughes applauds a musical animal in one of Europe’s trendiest cities, but hasn’t a good word to say about two grey and soulless London thoroughfares

  • Lord Heseltine
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    It's a tale of two city watersides for Lord Heseltine - but whereas one was reborn in an urban renaissance and the other is drowning in mediocrity

  • Ray Phillips
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Two exemplary buildings are chosen by Ray Phillips, one an elegant Weimar beauty, the other a confused Catalan concoction

  • Peter Murray
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architecture critic Peter Murray draws a comparison between a bridge that ties London together and a street that splits it apart

  • Ken Allinson
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Architect Ken Allinson finds a London police station arresting, but asks what's going on ‘ere with security guards

  • Stephen Nice
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Nice contrasts an 1880s London meat and fish market with a less palatable 1980s redevelopment

  • Richard Weston
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Architecture professor Richard Weston compares a tiny Spanish island hideaway with a huge English retail landmark

  • Almost 60 Dutch and international architects were involved in the development of Borneo Sporenburg, an innovative dense urban housing scheme in Amsterdam’s docklands. It comprises 2500 dwellings and was completed in 2000.
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Social housebuilder Colin Dixon likes Amsterdam's best homes but would love to wield the wrecking ball on London's worst shopping mall

  • Friendly and exciting Southgate Tube station was opened in March 1933
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-03-24T00:00:00Z

    This week Bob Stanley of St Etienne composes a hymn of praise to a Tube station, and a protest song about a block of flats

  • Golden Globe King’s Lynn Customs House
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Two dockside buildings, both of them famous film locations - but one's a hit and the other's a turkey.

  • the Estates Theatre in Prague
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Toyshop owner Peter Baldwin, better known as Derek from Corrie, enjoys a night at the Prague opera. What would Mavis say?

  • Comment

    A curious choice

    2006-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Thank you for sending us a copy of your Wonders & Blunders calendar 2006, but I am concerned about the obvious printing error for November.

  • Uplifting The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamps was designed by Le Corbusier and built between 1950 and 1955. Sitting on a hill, this monumental church is a dramatic form.
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Mancunian Stephen Hodder is mad for Le Corbusier's chapel, but bad copies of the great man's Unité d'Habitation get him even madder

  • Toys R Us
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Gill Taylor thinks the Scottish parliament is a playful masterpiece, but finds no fun in out-of-town toyshops

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Bah humbug: raining on David Cameron’s parade, bloodthirsty board games on the Christmas do circuit, plus Cyril Sweett and the Ebenezers

  • Roger Protz author of 'The Good Beer Guide'
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Roger Protz raises a glass to the London pub that was named after a philanthropist, and pours cold water on a London station

  • Alan Titchmarsh
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Gardener Alan Titchmarsh finds more than a well-kept lawn to admire on Richmond Green – but would like to dig up the concrete jungle

  • Des Lynam
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes – and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card …

  • Glasgow style Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a junior draughtsman at the firm of Honeyman and Keppie, designed the Glasgow School of Art in 1896 as a design competition entry. It was built between 1897 and1909, and is a destination for 20,000 tourists a year.
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire