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Beautiful crooner James Blunt has declared Sir Basil Spence’s monstrous 33-storey Hyde Park Barracks, where he was billeted during his stint as a Household Cavalry officer, an architectural crime. ‘Has any architect inflicted greater damage on London’s skyline?,’ asks the 44-year-old singer. ‘And shouldn’t we tear them down and build something . . . well. . . er, beautiful?’