All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 7
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CommentWonders & blunders with Fergus Henderson
Restaurateur Fergus Henderson considers a temple to chaos, fine dining and the wet fish trade in the City of London and, er, the City of London
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CommentWonders & Blunders with Sandy Nairne
Sandy Nairne chooses two art galleries: one in Germany that set a new standard for art and architecture, and another in London that, unfortunately, did much the same
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CommentWonders & blunders with Estelle Morris
Estelle Morris gives top marks to a much-improved Birmingham primary school, but thinks the designers of the Institute of Education deserve a ticking off
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Wonders & blunders - 28 August 2009
Geoff French considers two behemoths of the industrial age, and while he praises the masterful transformation of one, hopes only that the other will be put out of its misery
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Bel Mooney can see the point of contemporary architecture when she looks at Calatrava’s Milwaukee pavilion – whereas a Bath hotel just shows up the mistakes of the modern age
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CommentWonders & blunders - 24 July 2009
Bill Price has happy childhood memories of discovering structural design at Coventry cathedral. But the London Research Institute? He can’t even bear to look at it
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Guy Austin revels in Renault’s stunning underground Oxfordshire laboratory but a Hampshire new town is about as much fun as having your teeth drilled without anaesthetic
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George Clarke considers Newcastle’s Swan House an unforgivably ugly duckling. However, the new courtyard in the British Museum is the epitome of elegance …
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Jonathan Goring finds Liverpool’s Academy of St Francis of Assisi inspiring, but reckons it was a dark day in Leeds when planning permission was given to Ian Simpson’s Lumiere
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Martin Playford revisits two grand schemes from the seventies, one a gleaming symbol of the might of the City, the other a sad leftover from a best-forgotten motorway project
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Tom Foulkes salutes Hadrian’s 2,000-year-old Pantheon in Rome, but quietly hopes the brutalist Southbank Centre has a somewhat shorter lifespan
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Charles Saumarez Smith simply adores the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens building, but abhors Battersea’s design desert
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Erica Wagner chooses two avant-garde icons for us, one of them a triumph of American engineering, the other an Anglo-Italian blemish on the Beaubourg
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Prue Leith’s spirit is uplifted by the billowing roof and sense of fun in Richard Rogers’ airport terminal in Madrid. But Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital makes her sick
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CommentWonders & blunders: Keith Bradley, Feilden Clegg Bradley
Keith Bradley loves his hometown of Bath. The old city of pleasure, with its meandering crescents, that is. Not the faux-Georgian monstrosity of the Southgate shopping centre
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Roger Alton is at home at Terminal 5, but needs a map to find his way around the Barbican
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Clive Sayer salutes a 5,000-year-old citadel, but is less impressed by a more short-term project …
My wonder is the fortified Cité de Carcassonne, the origins of which can be traced back to 3500 BC.
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David Mann tells a tale of two shopping malls, one in the friendly North, the other in the grim South
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CommentSafety blunders: Dances with death
We had an astonishing selection of entries to our health and safety blunders competition in 2008. Here is our selection of the best, which reveal how construction workers around the world laughed in the face of danger and demonstrated shocking brutality towards trees…