Canada Water library, London, SE16

A new library, I thought we only had money for blowing things up these days, perhaps there is such a thing as society after all. A clever, counterintuative, building; it is an inverted pyramid, clad in bronzed aluminium, designed to enable a library to be built on a site too small for it. Therefore the books are upstairs, reached by a big, wooden, spiral staircase with a cafe on the ground floor.

MI6 Building, London

The MI6 Building on the River Thames at Vauxhall, designed Terry Farrell, looks like a Mayan or Aztec temple and it is said that in a cunning piece of design Farrell was able to make it ugly from every angle.