All Wonders & Blunders articles
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CommentWonders & blunders with Gill Parker
London resident Gill Parker thrills to the Sackler Gallery’s contemporary spirit but is less than charmed by a sixties housing estate that has ghettoised its residents
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CommentWonders and blunders with Nicola Rutt
Nicola Rutt finds Oxford University’s Florey Building ‘brave and beautiful’, but thinks more recent student accommodation, Unite’s post-Olympic Stratford development, is ‘overbearing’ and ‘confused’
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CommentWonders and blunders with Andrew Henriques
Andrew Henriques believes that his old school in Pimlico, designed by John Bancroft in the sixties, was a shining example of brutalist architecture. While its replacement is a lesson in ticking boxes
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CommentWonders & blunders with Félicie Krikler
If the Palais des Festivals wasn’t such an overbearing bunker, it might enjoy the amazing views, says Félicie Krikler. Whereas the Museum of the History of Tel Aviv-Yafo is so well composed, it is the view
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CommentWonders and blunders with Carol Bailey
Carol Bailey plumps for two council estates which both tried to create a sense of community. One became a crime hotspot; the other a safe and desirable living environment
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CommentWonders & blunders with David Liddicoat
David Liddicoat, a Liddicoat and Goldhill partner, can’t wait to try out the Olympic velodrome but thinks the cycle paths in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park are a wasted opportunity
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CommentWonders and blunders with Neill Werner
Neill Werner is blown away by the organic detailing of Gaudí’s House of Bones, but wonders why Herzog de Meuron had to cut the power at Tate Modern
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CommentWonders and blunders with Ken Greig
Ken Greig says bringing Glasgow Central station into the heart of the city was a gutsy move, but thinks St Enoch represents all that is wrong with eighties buildings
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CommentWonders and blunders with Stephen Melville
Stephen Melville goes to Moscow for a glimpse of the avant-avant-garde, but closer to home he finds a fine city marred by some retro pastiche
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CommentWonders and blunders with Rob Russell
Rob Russell wonders at the world’s largest unreinforced concrete roof, on Rome’s Pantheon, but despairs at Victor Emmanuel’s overbearing altar to egotism
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CommentWonders and blunders with Brian Teale
Brian Teale admires the futuristic Eden Project’s stately leisure domes, but derides the millennial O2 Centre as a very expensive tent
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CommentWonders and blunders with Mark Leeson
Le Corbusier’s Marseille masterpiece is enough to make Mark Leeson believe in time-travel, but the VisitPlymouth building just makes him want to stay at home …
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CommentWonders and blunders with Emma Rickwood
Emma Rickwood despairs at the darkness and monolithic concrete slabs of Westminster Underground Station and enjoys the architectural mischief of 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Richard Shennan
Richard Shennan is restored by the sight of the Royal College of Physicians building in Regent’s Park, but Calatrava’s Valencia opera house gives a poor performance in the long term
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CommentWonders & blunders with Phil Brumby
A Parisian museum is revered for its historic exterior and sensitive interior. But London’s Hayward Gallery is accused of being hideous, inside and out
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CommentWonders & blunders with Dan Benham
Incoming Royal Society of Architects in Wales president Dan Benham praises Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel and laments the ‘lump’ of the Celtic Manor Resort
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CommentWonders & blunders with John Tebbit
John Tebbit finds Hagia Sophia in Istanbul awe-inspiring but longs for the day when the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank has been removed and forgotten about
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CommentWonders & blunders with Roger FitzGerald
Roger FitzGerald contrasts the elegance and contribution to the public realm of Rothschild Bank headquarters, with Number 1 Poultry
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CommentWonders & blunders with Paul Sherwood
Fond memories are stirred for Paul Sherwood by a building with high aspirations in Dubai while temporary classrooms in the UK leave him feeling depressed