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Mr Whippy versus Mr. Blobby: what's happening to architecture? Plus: what should win the Stirling Prize, but probably won't.

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Well, from that list, some might happily see the Bilbao Guggenheim deleted. Not least Jacques Herzog, architect of London's Tate Modern and a prime candidate for presidency of the Right Angle Club. In Venice he launched a vituperative attack on Gehry and the Guggenheim. But no, let it stay. It is a work of brilliance and the best of its kind. Which is more than can be said of its legion of imitators. Moreover there are projects - such as the Graz Kunsthalle project by Spacelab, which is the one-time Archigram man Peter Cook with Colin Fournier - that cannot be said to be jumping on any bandwagon since this is the kind of building Cook and his cohorts first imagined way back in the early 1960s. Technology and familiarity has finally allowed such visions to be built. What's wrong with that?

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