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

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

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

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.'

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.'

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

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

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.

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

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

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

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