All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 10

  • 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.
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    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
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    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

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    Back issues

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Registration raises its ugly head … and fears over the Thames

  • Golden Globe King’s Lynn Customs House
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    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
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    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?

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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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'
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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

  • 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

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    Back issues

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Mrs Wiles awoke and noticed one side of her flat was completely missing …

  • Elegant
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    Wonders & blunders

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

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

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    Back Issues

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Miss Ivy Hodge, 56, put the kettle on – and that’s all she remembers