Imaginative architects are housing exciting wines in inspiring buildings, tours are regular events and decent tastings guaranteed.
Yet although Barcelona may never be rebuilt in Britain, it may move the British to create some inspiring buildings.
While the legacy may be inspiring the building may be an eye sore.
For visitors, Sofia offers a pleasant combination of urbane relaxation and awe-inspiring buildings and museums.
Crucially, this exhibit allows us to encounter Hadid's extraordinary vision better than any models, drawings or films of her awe-inspiring buildings could convey.
From Saturday, people will be able to see it at the Salisbury Museum in the cathedral close, alongside dozens of other paintings, watercolours, etchings and drawings of one of the country's most awe-inspiring buildings.
Architects are called upon to create awe-inspiring buildings [while] the "ordinary" is going astray, towards banality if not squalor: a modernity lived bad[ly]".
Far from being the dull, drab concrete monstrosities of western imagination, most of them are tall, awe-inspiring buildings.
Even by the end of the 19th Century and the early 20th, when the architectural profession was well-established, the most imaginative architects of the era were equally inspiring, whether drawing, building, painting or decorating.
The Techies, the changemakers, the creators, those who are building, inspiring, growing their own food, working with their hands to shift the world they live in are the ones who are going to change the way we see what cool is, how we help give the world what it needs and are not afraid to take on the future.
