All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 4
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CommentWonders & blunders with Simon Campbell
The Titanic Belfast embodies the history and ambition of Simon Campbell’s city, while the Obel Tower across the river simply looms over it
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CommentWonders & blunders with Patricia Moore
Patricia Moore praises the sensitive yet glorious refurbishment of King’s Cross station in London, but shies away from drab, dingy Euston just a few yards down the road
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CommentWonders & blunders with Matthew Cousins
Matthew Cousins follows the yellow brick road to the diverse Accordia housing development in Cambridge - but is stopped in his tracks by a soulless Libeskind building in Holloway
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CommentWonders & blunders with Rod Taylor
For Rod Taylor the sense of space in Rome’s Pantheon is awe-inspiring, but the empty seats in the second halves of Wembley matches leave the stadium bereft of any atmosphere
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NewsWonders & blunders with David Mosey
David Mosey is content in a traffic jam if gazing at the Hoover Building’s art deco frontage, but the imposing Gothic facade of the Royal Courts of Justice makes him hail the nearest cab
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CommentWonders & blunders with Ian Blacker
Ian Blacker delights in the inclusiveness of Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 pavilion, but flinches while walking past the clumsy St George Wharf riverside housing tower
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CommentWonders & blunders with Ben Adams
Ben Adams finds spiritual inspiration in the staying power of the Temple Church but searches in vain for a lasting sense of community at the athletes’ village
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CommentWonders & blunders with Jeremy Till
Jeremy Till celebrates the democratic, contested space of Tent City outside St Paul’s but decries the increasing privatisation of our cities, symbolised by the gate to Paternoster Square
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CommentOlympic wonders & blunders with Jack Pringle
Why partner at Pringle Brandon thinks Hopkins’ velodrome races to victory over Anish Kapoor’s Orbit
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CommentWonders & blunders with Richard Rose Casemore
Richard Rose-Casemore delights in the ecclesiastical serendipity of the Maria-Magdalena Church but the Tate at St Ives fails to live up to the beauty of its surroundings
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CommentWonders and blunders with Joe Griffiths
Joe Griffiths wants to keep New York’s precious Chrysler Building firmly in his sights but had a lucky escape from London’s equivalent of the gateway to Mordor, Archway Tower
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CommentWonders & blunders with Keith Pickavance
Keith Pickavance delights in the eccentricity of the Lloyd’s Building but the Prince of Wales’ fire station in Poundbury deserves to have the hose turned on it
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Karen Kirkham
Karen Kirkham uses her daily commute to size up passing buildings. She finds Battersea Power Station has a dignity even in decay whereas the MI6 building is indestructibly pompous
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CommentWonders & blunders with Marta Nowicka
Marta Nowicka finds herself transported by the introspective spaces of a private house in Notting Hill - but London Met’s Graduate Centre does her head in
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Wonders and Blunders with Phil Hutchinson
Phil Hutchinson casts his critical eye over offices in west London, enjoying the charms of Chiswick Park but lamenting how the Ark in Hammersmith has changed over time
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CommentWonders & blunders with Richard Piggott
Richard Piggott is inspired by the curving stone facade of Unilever House, but stony-faced when it comes to the Park Plaza Hotel with its unusual choice of materials
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CommentWonders & blunders with Dominic Cullinan
Dominic Cullinan takes us on a science fiction tour of London - from the half-imagined ‘bulging cheeks’ of Old Street to the three bronzed sisters of the Barbican
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CommentWonders and Blunders with Ann Gray
Ann Gray compares two very similar buidings this week - with very different conclusions. The Disney concert hall in LA makes her heart sing but there’s more than one bum note in Seattle
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CommentWonders and blunders: Christina Seilern
Christina Seilern is dreaming of a holiday - but you won’t catch her travelling out of Luton airport. Stansted, on the other hand, provides the perfect start to a journey
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CommentWonders & blunders with Annabella Nassetti
Gaudí’s Sagrada Família has been a century in the building but still Annabella Nassetti would like to knock it down and start again. Thank heavens for La Pedrera, a monument that moves