All Wonders & Blunders articles – Page 9
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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
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Gill Taylor thinks the Scottish parliament is a playful masterpiece, but finds no fun in out-of-town toyshops
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Roger Protz raises a glass to the London pub that was named after a philanthropist, and pours cold water on a London station
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Gardener Alan Titchmarsh finds more than a well-kept lawn to admire on Richmond Green – but would like to dig up the concrete jungle
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Des Lynam analyses the performance of two very different domes – and as usual, Italy scores big points while England gets a red card …
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Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire
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Just when you thought the tennis madness was over, Alan Mills serves two London landmarks, one by Wren, the other by Foster
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No-nonsense broadcaster Robert Elms adores Lasdun’s austere Thamesside masterpiece, but has no time for showy St Pancras
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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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Emma Vergette finds the best of British at a London museum, and definitely not in the modern-day suburban sprawl
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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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Tony Whitehead of Defence Estates salutes the functional, effective Walsall Art Gallery but finds the Sainsbury Wing spineless
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This week Alain de Botton contrasts a playful estate north of Amsterdam with new housing in this country
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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
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David Armitage finds one capital city elevated by a small modern church, and another ruined by 1960s grey concrete
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Nick Mason pins a medal on a relic of Victorian engineering, but regrets his mispent youth as an architecture critic