Queen views homes fit for a prince

摘要

Back in the 1980s, the royals were more frequent visitors to the RIBA than they are today. BD published this photo of the Queen talking to Denys Lasdun at the RIBA's Art of the Architect exhibition 23 years ago, in 1985. The then RIBArnpresident, Michael Manser, looks on.rnThe topic of conversation? The winners of a children's competition to design a home on an ancestral site in Scotland for Prince William to live in during his 20s.rnFive-year-old Neil Hay offered a choice of interconnecting apartments, while 15-year-old Stephen Oliver presented a series of precise drawings of a castle in Scottish baronial mode, incorporating video game rooms and kennels. Three years later, Prince Charles famously declared Lasdun's Royal National Theatre "a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting".