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From AFP European Edition  |  2009-06-13 03:15:16

Britain's Prince Charles was criticised by one of the world's leading architects Friday, who accused him of lobbying Qatar to get a planned modern building in central London dropped. Charles, well known for his conservative views on modern architecture, reportedly wrote to the chairman of Qatari Diar, the Gulf state's property investment arm which is behind the ...

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From AP News  |  2009-05-30 01:11:18
Argentina Pritzker Zumthor
From AP News  |  2009-05-30 01:11:13
2009 Pritzker Prize recipient Peter Zumthor compares creative process to love affair

Peter Zumthor, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize, compares his creative process to the arc of a love affair. "There's a kind of chemical reaction," the 66-year-old Swiss architect told The Associated Press in an interview Friday just before receiving what's considered the Nobel Prize ...

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From AFP European Edition  |  2009-05-13 16:36:43

Britain's Prince Charles sought Tuesday to patch up a long-running row with architects over his traditionalist views on building design -- even as he dismissed the modern approach as "flawed". The prince's interventions on architecture have put him at odds with many in the profession, and most recently he has come up against Qatar's leaders over a design ...

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