MPs and peers laughed as Merkel, who recalled her first visit to London in the spring of 1990 shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, said those expecting a "fundamental reform of the European architecture" in Britain's direction would be disappointed.
Supposedly, or so I have heard, some expect my speech to pave the way for a fundamental reform of the European architecture, which will satisfy all kinds of alleged or actual British wishes.
According to the sculptor, Blind Light, as the installation was called, undermined what architecture ought to do: "Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are.
Wolff had studied architecture and design and had been working in a small London design partnership when they met and started their groundbreaking brand consultancy Wolff Olins in 1965.
It now appears that it began earlier still, as an experiment in both architecture and psychiatry, in the gardens of the hospital at Sant Boi.
As you traverse the town, new vistas constantly come at you, with amazing combinations of architecture and beach.
It works better for those doing longer courses such as medicine and architecture, and we have had quite a few vets.
However, the chance to pad through the shadowy aisles of damp barrels, and admire the ecclesiastical architecture shouldn't be missed.
Hadid, a dame of the British Empire, became the first female and first Muslim to win the most prestigious Pritzker Prize in architecture in 2004.
It soon became a private mall, but the architecture endures, a lost vision of public modernism.
Listing declares that malls can be worthwhile pieces of public architecture.
