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Write a review of your best-loved building in Britain. We want to find out what qualities make buildings truly loved, rather than simply admired from a distance, so tell us about a building that you know really well – preferably inside out! Browse our gallery below to read about other listeners’ choices.
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Maiden Lane, Camden, London
"..some of the maisonettes have double-height living rooms .."
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Former South of Scotland Technical College, Galashiels
".a symbol of all that was strong in the Scottish tweed industry.."
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Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
"..the Dance School I will shortly attend .."
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Tower Building, Water Street, Liverpool
"..I worked in this building for many years.."
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Broadway Tower
"..probably the greatest, most whimsical folly of all .."
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Ice Rink, Oxford
"..construction and details.."
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Radio City Tower, Liverpool
"..it lights the city up like a giant disco ball.."
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Fulwell Mill, Sunderland
"..like a shard of Heaven gleaming in the dust.."
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Spitbank Fort
"It reminds me of an era when England really had power."
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New Art Gallery, Walsall
"Proves that regeneration can be kick-started by culture."
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Bexhill Pavilion
"There's an air of faded dreams about it."
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Wren Library
"A structure that is more heavenly than earthly."
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Barber Institute
"the scene of many musical discoveries for me"
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Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
"An ambience of space and freedom, serenity and awe."
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Wycoller Hall
"An inspirational modern intervention."
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Horniman Museum
"I feel very proud to have been involved with this project"
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Paddington Station
"An example of how engineering and architecture are the same thing."
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Lawn Road flats
"I first heard about them on Swedish radio"
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Piece Hall, Halifax
"Every time I walk through the gates I feel my spirits lift - even if it's raining"
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Coventry University Lanchester Library
"The towering ventilation shafts..cast the most extraordinary shadows"
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Marine Gate, Brighton
"It even has portholes to add to the nautical feel"
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Canary Wharf
"The stainless steel is a wonderful reflector"
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Former national centre for popular music, Sheffield
"it is friendly and inviting"
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Coventry Cathedral
"It was built to establish bridges"
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Tricorn
"It was once a great building, now sadly ridiculed"
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Founders Building Royal Holloway University of London
"Wonderful Gothic architecture, similar to a french chateau"
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Sheffield Winter Gardens and Millenium Galleries
"Neither building makes any assumptions as to what the visitor should do"
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Surrey House, Norwich
"my jaw dropped at the splendour of the marble interior"
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Winchester Cathedral
"Clearly Winchester had it in for Norman architecture"
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Portcullis House
"My first response was one of outrage!"
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Beccles Water Tower, Suffolk
"Although drab, I find its purity of form quite beautiful"
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Senate House, University College, London
"It is far more macho than most art deco buildings"
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The Midland Grand Hotel
"An icon that is stunning to look at."
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The Natural History Museum
"Such a magnificent space, but not overpowering."
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The Millennium Dome
"Buildings become memorable because they have made a visible profound statement."
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The Walker Art Gallery
"A great legacy which survived bombings and recession."
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St. Albans Abbey
"Its old brick structure means it has a Byzantine feel to it, crusaders brought back ideas from Constantinople. ."
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Carreg Cennen Castle
"The castles we could see from our windows represented a dreamscape."
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