All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 10

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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

  • Handsome
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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Tom Wright praises a Foster and Partners building inspired by apples, but has only a raspberry for a Parisian landmark

  • New York's Grand Central Station was designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern in the French beaux-arts style and completed in 1913. The building was extensively renovated in the 1990s.
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    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    A train station-cum-ballroom sends Charlie Luxton into a transport of delight, but a British airport is a pain in the neck

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    2004-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-07-16T00:00:00Z

    We walked for two days to find an inspiring eco-lodge, but just walked in circles at an ill-fated French airport

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    David Birkbeck finds populist excitement at an Essex town, but only prophylactic disappointment in an East End designer home

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    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Paul Burgess praises an atrium that makes the heart soar, but missed chances just make it sore. And check out the new Back Issues …

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    2004-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Ian MacMillan admires the brutal emotion of a Holocaust memorial but is horrified by a riverside London apartment block

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Anthony Wilson picks two modern Mancunian buildings, one a triumph of architectural art, the other … er, you’d better read it yourself

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Trisha Gupta rejoices in the art nouveau interior of an unimposing Essex church, but fails to see why anybody worships the mall

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    2004-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Tony Miller pays his respects to the shrine of natural history but finds no enlightenment in Le Courbusier’s celebrated chapel

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    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal

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    2004-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Adrian Tinniswood admires an example of Wren's post-Fire reconstruction but despairs at a more recent act of demolition

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    2004-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Mike Driver bends a reverential knee to a Finnish church but makes the sign of the cross before a north London office block …