The monarch loves traditional buildings and hates a lot of modern design. In this long-running battle, is there any middle ground?
nce upon a time I found myself in a very small waiting room in St James’s Palace, furnished like a posh-but-thrifty dentist’s with old Sotheby’s catalogues and ancient copies of, the sound of clock bells and tramping guardsmen percolating from outside. I was ushered into a large room, to be grilled by associates of the then Prince of Wales as to my suitability to be his architectural adviser. Where did I live? Stoke Newington .
The incurable optimist in me still wonders: could his yearnings about the built environment be more beneficially directed? Charles may have been at war with much of the architectural world for nearly 40 years, but might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have a shared enemy: the sacrifice of positive architectural qualities to housebuilders’ pursuit of profit.
and Alison Brooks Architects, for example. For style, it seems, can’t so readily be overlooked, nor can the ancient enmities between the prince and the architects.prince famously denounced a proposed extension to the National Gallery
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