[Marsel]

I couldn't agree more with the Daily Mail article Skydragon posted - Yes, let's have an inquiry - into how modernists have ruined our cities.

This is not a matter where there are things to be said on both sides: the Prince is right, and Richard Rogers is wrong. The greatest fans of the neoclassicist Quinlan Terry would not say that his plan was very inspired. Nor would the greatest fans of Richard Rogers say that his modernist plan was very inspired either.
But if you asked local residents - who would have to live with the results - the overwhelming majority preferred the designs of Quinlan Terry to those of Richard Rogers.

Twenty-five years ago, when the prince described the proposed modernist development of the National Gallery in London as a monstrous carbuncle, he likewise caused howls of anguish from the architectural establishment.
But he spoke for England. And now he is doing so again. Anti-royalists always suppose that monarchs wish to impose their will arrogantly on a servile people.
Historically, in fact, it has been the role of kings and princes to stick up for the people against the powerful monied bullies - the wicked barons or, in this case, the monstrously arrogant modernist architects.

It is not Prince Charles but the modernists - led by Richard Rogers - who are the arrogant ones. They will brook no opposition even though, time and again, their work spoils our towns.

In Prince Charles, traditionalists have found not a bossy know-itall, but a public figure who was actually humble enough to listen to what the vast majority of the people wanted.
The Prince is, in any case, not an ignoramus. He studied architecture at Cambridge, and he has a good eye. That is something to be grateful for - but it is an added bonus, not the central point.
Thank God for the Prince. It is he, and not Lord Trendy Billionaire Rogers, who speaks for anyone with eyes in their head and a love of Britain in their hearts.

The passages I underlined speak clearly of what I think about the barracks and Prince Charles's intervention. As the closing line says, Thank God for the Prince..., who speaks for anyone with eyes in their head and a love of Britain in their hearts.