All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 8

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    Scaling new heights

    2008-11-14T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to Dezirée Lindsay from Dallas who sent us this astonishing picture of a digger clawing its way up a building.

  • Brian Berry
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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Brian Berry compares a Georgian version of the ideal terrace with an advanced modern slum

  • Lynne Sullivan
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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Louis Kahn’s gallery in Yale works brilliantly with the art inside, whereas Lord Foster’s simply belittles it

  • Comment

    Back issues: Hong Kong rejoins the motherland

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    November 2000

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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    IM Pei’s Suzhou Museum is a masterly modern take on Chinese traditional buildings, says Pak Hung Lai, whereas the Shanghai Convention Centre is just, well, balls

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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Tony Benn finds peace and tranquility in the heart of New York, before going on the warpath against an old foe

  • The baroque palace of Bruchsal was built in the 1720s and served as the official residence of the Bishops of Speyer. It was based on the plans of Maximilian von Welsch and later modified by Balthasar Neumann, the city’s chief engineer.
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    An 18th-century reworking of a German palace is first class, but a student hostel in Oxford barely scrapes a third, says Daniel Moylan

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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-04-25T00:00:00Z

    A tale of two London stations this week – one a glorious example of what the new can bring to the old, the other a grim warning of what it can take away, says Robert Clark

  • Alan Powers
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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-04-04T00:00:00Z

    The decorative, anti-modernist efforts of Goodhart-Rendel excite Alan Powers but the patterned facade of the Blue Fin Building is a damp squib

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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    When it comes to materials, Sir Bernard Ingham finds his soul lifted by the power and grandeur of stone, while modern alternatives suggest mere derangement

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    Wonders & blunders

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Two English icons inpire Claire Sweeney: one with pride in the skills of its builders and designers, the other revulsion for the money wasted on it

  • Inspirational The grade II-listed Blackburne House, in the Hope Street district of Liverpool, was built in the 18th century and was used as a school until 1987. It is now a training centre for women.
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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Edwina Currie

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Edwina Currie fondly remembers the Victorian splendour of her old school – in the days before she had to put up with grim government office blocks

  • Awe-inspiring Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral is visible for miles around the city. The design competition was won by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1906 when he was just 22.
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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Janice Long

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Disc jockey Janice Long declares the Anglican cathedral an all-time classic, but consigns the front of Lime Street station to the bargain bin

  • Liverpool Liver Building
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    My Liverpool wonders and blunders with Roger McGough

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Roger McGough knows he’s home when he sees the Royal Liver Building, but the Radio City Tower makes him want to take the next ferry out

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    Wonders & blunders

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A south London bus garage provides a stirring journey’s end while a hideous addition to the Thames riverside just spoils a good walk

  • Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Two takes on modernity this week, one a persuasive discourse on industry and craft, the other a ‘crude and inarticulate’ shout

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    Wonders & blunders

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Simon McWhirter picks two lots of housing: one a happy and healthy sustainable development, the other a decrepit and depressing tower block

  • Prizefighter: Howells’ Savill building in Windsor Great Park is up for the Stirling
    Features

    Glenn Howells: Almost famous

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Noddy Holder … the Midlands has produced its fair share of rock stars. Sadly, frustrated musician Glenn Howells wasn’t one of them. But now, with a Stirling prize nomination to his name, the Birmingham architect is about to get his turn in the limelight.

  • Alistair Barr
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    Wonders & blunders

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Alistair Barr picks two City columns, one a multitalented 17th-century marvel, the other a bang-up-to date failure of nerve and imagination

  • Martin Chambers
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    Wonders & blunders

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Martin Chambers rejoices in the tuneful offerings of Birmingham International Convention Centre but deplores the Soviet-style design of Leeds’ Quarry House