Winchester Cathedral
An obvious choice if you live near Winchester!
Gloucester Services. If you’re taking a trip using the M5, make sure you stop here. Designed to sit in harmony with the landscape, Gloucester Services won a RIBA
Natural History Museum
Pretty obvious I think!
Rather embarrassingly, not really! I refer you to Wikipedia for the facts, but really, you need to see it to believe it.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Île de la Cité, Paris, France
There is nothing hidden about the grand and beautiful French Gothic cathedral that has graced its location in the middle of Paris for nearly a thousand years. Even in its current
Durham Cathedral.
An obvious choice if you live in or have spent any time in the North East of England.
It is a Norman cathedral as you can tell
The Barbican Estate. Do you think that’s an obvious choice – or do you reckon it’s a hidden gem?
It was perhaps a bit more controversial in the past, but definitely back in vogue. At the weekend it’s filled with people getting pics for the ‘gram now. That said, it still has its fair share of detractors who dismiss it as ‘brutalist’ – but, at risk of sounding pretentious, it’s so much more complex than that.
What is it, The British Museum.
Do you think that’s an obvious choice – or do you reckon it’s a hidden gem?
Dead obvious – it’s a big grand building in the middle of Bloomsbury!
Any honourable mentions?
I’m from the sticks, and the most (only!) interesting public buildings we have tend to be churches.
