• Carbuncles and King Charles: was the royal family’s meddling supertroll right about architecture?

    He was the comedy villain of architecture, dismissed for his kitsch follies and illiterate outbursts. But has Charles III actually been proved correct?‘The most prominent architecture critic in the world” is how the New York Times once described King Charles III. It was 1989, and the then Prince of Wales was enjoying a wave of publicity after the launch of his spiritual crusade against the heresies of modern architecture. It was a high-profile, three-pronged attack, comprising a prim

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