Stephen Bayley

Architecture for all occasions

Hugh Pearman examines a wide range of building types apart from houses, including museums, theatres, schools, shopping malls, palaces and places of worship

Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, built in 1955. [Alamy]

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