All Wonders & Blunders archive articles – Page 9

  • Blot Powderhall Waste Transfer Station was built in 1970. It compacts 150,000 tonnes of waste from Edinburgh’s businesses and households each year, which is then transferred to landfill.
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    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    It’s not the tallest, but it’s got style. Broadcaster Sheena McDonald picks a deco landmark and a flaw in her diamond of a home town

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    Bit of a blunder …

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    I have to stand up for Glasgow College of Building and Printing and let you know that the pictures have been mixed up in your Wonders & Blunders (1 July, page 40).

  • Ace
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    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Just when you thought the tennis madness was over, Alan Mills serves two London landmarks, one by Wren, the other by Foster

  • Brutal
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    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Stuart MacDonald loves the 1960s and says we should reclaim its brutalist architecture from ham-fisted embellishments

  • Elegant
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    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    No-nonsense broadcaster Robert Elms adores Lasdun’s austere Thamesside masterpiece, but has no time for showy St Pancras

  • Wonder
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    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Architect Raymond Young cheers a happy melding of old and new in Dundee, and boos a much less happy one in Edinburgh

  • One-off
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    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Emma Vergette finds the best of British at a London museum, and definitely not in the modern-day suburban sprawl

  • Well, hello
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    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Lamb is dazzled by the multicoloured shell of a museum of dead animals, and turned off by an extinct shopping centre

  • Iconic
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    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Tony Whitehead of Defence Estates salutes the functional, effective Walsall Art Gallery but finds the Sainsbury Wing spineless

  • Wonder
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    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    This week Alain de Botton contrasts a playful estate north of Amsterdam with new housing in this country

  • Iain Borden
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    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    An arts centre shows that the best plan can be no plan at all, says Iain Borden, but a London office block betrays no sign of life

  • St Brigid’s Church in Belfast was designed by Kennedy Fitzgerald Associates. Completed in 1994, it replaced a church dating from 1893. The brick built church has a pitched slate roof and seats 800 people.
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    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    David Armitage finds one capital city elevated by a small modern church, and another ruined by 1960s grey concrete

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    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic

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    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace

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    2004-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Two London residences make up Michael Winner’s choices – one of which he liked so much that he bought it himself

  • Precious
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    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Historian Francesco da Mosto picks two faces of La Serenissima: one a stunning fusion of styles and the other a tasteless cake

  • The Royal Borough’s enhancements of High Street Kensington reduced clutter and used a restricted palette of high quality materials, street furniture and lighting to create an elegant and contemporary feel.
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    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A civilised street with space for everything turns into an eyesore that should have no place on this small planet, says Bill Bryson

  • Transformed
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    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Can London’s newest skyscraper be both a wonder and a blunder? Academic James Woudhuysen has it both ways

  • The mutt's nuts
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    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block

  • A trip
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    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Philip Wildman stands up and salutes a Tube station that doubles as a dystopic film set, but is bent out of shape by a museum