'What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend." So, 20 years ago today, the Prince of Wales famously opened his attack on modern British architecture.
He was the comedy villain of architecture, dismissed for his kitsch follies and ill-considered outbursts. But has Charles III actually been proved correct? ‘The most prominent architecture critic in ...
The UK has a long and storied history of scathing architectural criticism The winner of the 2016 Carbuncle Cup, awarded to Britain’s worst building as a provocation to debate each year by Building ...