\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx135\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 Osborne was deliberately divided into two main parts: a pavilion f
or the royal family and a big adjoining block for visitors and courtiers. Rather than enlisting the services of a well-known architect like Barry, \b \cf4 \ATXht10851000 Prince Albert\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 preferred to have his own say in questions of design
and therefore employed Thomas Cubitt, a distinguished property developer and builder who had developed much of Bloomsbury and almost all of Belgravia in London. Their combined skills did not have quite the architectural aplomb of a professional like Ba
rry, and as a result the main block is like a vastly overgrown Belgravia mansion, to which the Royal Pavilion is uncomfortably attached by an umbilical cord of open arcading. At one corner of the Pavilion is a Barryesque belvedere tower, and a slightly
different tower is attached by more arcading to the opposite side of the main block. To incorporate two prominent towers of the same size into a picturesque composition was not an easy task, and in fact Osborne has a somewhat lopsided appearance from th
