Battle Royal in U.K. Over Chelsea Barracks

摘要

Until the prince of wales weighed in, the dispute over Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' design for Chelsea Barracks, a patch of historic London, was a run-of-the-mill fight between fans and foes of contemporary design. (A typical building for the site is shown above left.) And then Prince Charles-whose loathing of modern architecture is well known-thought to himself, "I don't like it," wrote developer Qatari Diar to say as much, and asked a favorite designer, Quinlan Terry, to draw up an alternative (shown above right).