A glorious monument to the towering genius of Victorian engineering reopens this week, complete with a smart new cafe and a distinctive whiff of sewage drifting across from the working side of the Crossness sewage pumping station, south-east London.
Across the way in this glorious monument of a ground sat scattered Australia fans who did not know whether to laugh or cry over the corpse, sunning themselves in the Brewongle Stand.
Plenty, like the glorious Penshaw Monument in County Durham have already been listed, but there are many more modern candidates.
Precisely a year later, the capital has slipped into a welcome lame-duck doze in which the strongest issue in sight is whether the restoration scaffolding surrounding the Washington Monument has proved to be a more glorious attraction than the monument itself.
It's a brave composer who takes on such a challenge, and while the piece is overlong and occasionally muddy, its closing pages build a lasting monument in glorious, polyphonic sound.
Just as important, Skidmore's expansive design would be a big step toward rectifying one of the greatest architectural tragedies in the city's history: the 1964 demolition of McKim, Mead & White's glorious 1910 Pennsylvania Station, a monument to American democratic values, and its replacement by the dark, claustrophobic present-day station, one of the most dehumanizing public spaces in the city.
It is linking it, through a process of "antiquitisation" – which involved decorating the city with ancient-looking monuments – to the glorious past of Alexander the Great, which the Greeks would deny them.
Over the years, Eurovision has developed into a monument to the glorious diversity of modern Europe.
Mr van Agtmael points out that America and its allies have been on top of the world for so long that it will take a huge psychological adjustment to treat the likes of India and China as economic equals (his office has a spectacular view over the centre of Washington, DC, with its many monuments to America's glorious past).
So, this week I will enter the jungle and once again take the daunting, flawed, but glorious challenge of trying to build an monument to your celebration song suggesions.
