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Buildings that rock: Architectural nightmare no. 666 I’m trapped in a building by Satriani. It’s suffocating and claustrophobic with nowhere to stand back and view the spaces. If there were you’d realise there are no spaces to view. An architecture whose rhythm is drowned out by the relentless onslaught of over-hand tapped out details on [...]

Buildings that rock: Architectural dream no.[series summation]* To make a building as satisfying to experience on every level – from the minutest detail to the sum of the whole – as Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing. The feel of the door handles could be sensed from a mile away. It’s place in the urban grain would [...]

Buildings that rock funk: Architectural dream no. 654 To make a building whose entrance is as flawless as the beginning of Stevie Wonder’s Superstition. Walking in the door and down the hall during the first thirty seconds would put a spring in everyone’s step. (see previous dream no. 1256)