All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 9

  • Uplifting The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamps was designed by Le Corbusier and built between 1950 and 1955. Sitting on a hill, this monumental church is a dramatic form.
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    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Mancunian Stephen Hodder is mad for Le Corbusier's chapel, but bad copies of the great man's Unité d'Habitation get him even madder

  • Toys R Us
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    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Gill Taylor thinks the Scottish parliament is a playful masterpiece, but finds no fun in out-of-town toyshops

  • Roger Protz author of 'The Good Beer Guide'
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    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Roger Protz raises a glass to the London pub that was named after a philanthropist, and pours cold water on a London station

  • Alan Titchmarsh
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    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Gardener Alan Titchmarsh finds more than a well-kept lawn to admire on Richmond Green – but would like to dig up the concrete jungle

  • Des Lynam
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    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes – and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card …

  • Glasgow style Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a junior draughtsman at the firm of Honeyman and Keppie, designed the Glasgow School of Art in 1896 as a design competition entry. It was built between 1897 and1909, and is a destination for 20,000 tourists a year.
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    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire

  • Ace
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    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Just when you thought the tennis madness was over, Alan Mills serves two London landmarks, one by Wren, the other by Foster

  • Elegant
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    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    No-nonsense broadcaster Robert Elms adores Lasdun’s austere Thamesside masterpiece, but has no time for showy St Pancras

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    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Mrs Wiles awoke and noticed one side of her flat was completely missing …

  • Wonder
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    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Architect Raymond Young cheers a happy melding of old and new in Dundee, and boos a much less happy one in Edinburgh

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    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Miss Ivy Hodge, 56, put the kettle on – and that’s all she remembers

  • One-off
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    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Emma Vergette finds the best of British at a London museum, and definitely not in the modern-day suburban sprawl

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    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

  • Well, hello
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    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Lamb is dazzled by the multicoloured shell of a museum of dead animals, and turned off by an extinct shopping centre

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    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    A debate about housing density, ideal homes and the traffic menace …

  • Iconic
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    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Tony Whitehead of Defence Estates salutes the functional, effective Walsall Art Gallery but finds the Sainsbury Wing spineless

  • Wonder
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    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    This week Alain de Botton contrasts a playful estate north of Amsterdam with new housing in this country

  • Iain Borden
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    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    An arts centre shows that the best plan can be no plan at all, says Iain Borden, but a London office block betrays no sign of life

  • St Brigid’s Church in Belfast was designed by Kennedy Fitzgerald Associates. Completed in 1994, it replaced a church dating from 1893. The brick built church has a pitched slate roof and seats 800 people.
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    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    David Armitage finds one capital city elevated by a small modern church, and another ruined by 1960s grey concrete

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    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic