All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 12

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    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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    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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    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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    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 …

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    2004-02-13T00:00:00Z

    James Sunley takes his hat off to the wonders of the Michelin building, then thumbs his nose at David Wilson's anonymous estate

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    2004-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier

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    2004-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Joan Bakewell gives rave reviews to an institutional home for books, but a north London theatre gets a scathing critique

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    2003-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Ben Schott likes nothing better than a glass of dry sherry in Barry's Reform Club, but the London Eye gives him a funny turn

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    2003-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Dawn Gibbins is drawn to the natural light of Belfast City Hall, but the gloom of industrial sheds has her voting with her feet

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    2003-11-28T00:00:00Z

    I take a dim view of 5000-year-old project management, but look kindly on a 21st-century model of good practice

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    Wonders & blunders

    2003-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Simon Allford raises a cheer for a much-loved oval but is unable to celebrate one of the world's most famous squares

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    Wonders & blunders

    2003-11-07T00:00:00Z

    Simon Woodroffe raises a cup of saki to Foster and Partners' GLA building, but makes water in the direction of a London estate

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    2003-10-24T00:00:00Z

    I am tempted to revel in the open spaces in and around the Tate Modern but walk by the Hayward shaking my head

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    2003-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Comedian Tony Hawks is uplifted by Gaudí's Barcelona buildings, but just finds the Design Council's offices funny peculiar