In defence of Oxford's ugliest architecture

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In defence of Oxford's ugliest architecture

“The city’s dreaming spires are being crowded out by architectural eyesores.” This was the central claim of an article I read in The Spectator last May prefaced ‘The Sad Decline of Oxford’. In it, the author quotes Bill Bryson who argues that: “[Oxford] is a beautiful city that has been treated with gross indifference and lamentable incompetence”. As a student at St John’s, it is hard not to appreciate Bryson’s point. Indeed, I am reminded of it…