Building Sights

Architect, Sir Norman Foster, looks at the jumbo jet.

Writer Marina Warner is inspired by Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire.

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a 1967 tower block in north London by Erno Goldfinger.

Sandy Naime, director of visual arts at the Arts Council, looks at St Mary's, a new NHS hospital on the Isle of Wight by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek.

Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, praises the Michelin building in London.

Court House in Truro, Cornwall is admired by the artist Deanna Petherbridge.

Leicester University Engineering Building is one of only a few buildings that have had a powerful effect on structural engineer Tim MacFarlane: 'For me, this building is a work of art.'

To Alice Rawsthorn, design correspondent of The Financial Times, St Olaf House (1931) is 'a little island of art deco splendour tucked away between the south bank of the River Thames and the railway arches of London Bridge. It's one of those quirky places, where everything down to the tiniest detail was designed in a very particular way.'

Film director and artist Derek Jarman visits Garden House in Wimborne, Dorset, built by his art master Robin Noscoe.

Alan Bennett wanders through the County Arcade, Leeds (Frank Matcham 1900).

Architect Richard MacCormac marvels at the Boarbank Hall Oratory near Grange over Sands, Cumbria.