The buildings we loved and loved to hate, 1989

Norman Parkinson reviled Household Cavary in Hyde Park, Roy Strong adored Hardwick HallIt’s little surprise the fashion photographer Norman Parkinson’s favourite building was the outré, flamboyant Brighton Pavilion, pictured on the cover of the Observer Magazine of 16 April 1989, which teases us with his worst building, too (‘The beautiful and the damned’).While Parkinson hymned the royal palace – ‘wonderful, a delight, giving an insight into the age of