All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 10
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RIBA president-elect Jack Pringle vows that a former icon will rise again but would rather see a Holborn hotel buried without trace
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Two London residences make up Michael Winner’s choices – one of which he liked so much that he bought it himself
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Historian Francesco da Mosto picks two faces of La Serenissima: one a stunning fusion of styles and the other a tasteless cake
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A civilised street with space for everything turns into an eyesore that should have no place on this small planet, says Bill Bryson
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Can London’s newest skyscraper be both a wonder and a blunder? Academic James Woudhuysen has it both ways
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Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block
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Philip Wildman stands up and salutes a Tube station that doubles as a dystopic film set, but is bent out of shape by a museum
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Tom Wright praises a Foster and Partners building inspired by apples, but has only a raspberry for a Parisian landmark
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A train station-cum-ballroom sends Charlie Luxton into a transport of delight, but a British airport is a pain in the neck
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Tony Bingham is left aesthetically stranded by the RAC control centre on the M6, but the Bilbao Guggenheim comes to the rescue
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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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David Birkbeck finds populist excitement at an Essex town, but only prophylactic disappointment in an East End designer home
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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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Ian MacMillan admires the brutal emotion of a Holocaust memorial but is horrified by a riverside London apartment block
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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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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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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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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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Adrian Tinniswood admires an example of Wren's post-Fire reconstruction but despairs at a more recent act of demolition
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Mike Driver bends a reverential knee to a Finnish church but makes the sign of the cross before a north London office block …