Prince Charles Is Back To Hating All Things Modern

This writer apologizes for all the architecture talk this morning. We just got kind of into the swing of things today and the news wouldn’t seem to let up. But even if you aren’t a big building buff, you’ll likely enjoy this one: the Times is reporting that Prince Charles is once again speaking out against modernism, having recently, during a ceremony, described a building, “…looks like a dustbin from the outside.” Apparently he’s had a long history of being incredibly outspoken against anything overtly modern, starting way back in 1984. But while we might not agree with him on all accounts, you do have to give the guy credit for some fun anti-modernism, stingers:

Last month, he condemned the growing number of skyscrapers being erected in central London. The prince called them “not just one carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend, but a positive rash of them that will disfigure precious views and disinherit future generations of Londoners.”

… He has also described the British Library at St Pancras in central London as looking like the assembly hall of a secret police academy, and Birmingham’s central library as looking like “a place where books are incinerated, not kept.”

Priving the point: if it isn’t a bottle of wine and isn’t designed by him, Prince Charles just ain’t happy.

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