King Charles ignited a battle of styles in architecture - is it time for a truce?

The monarch loves traditional buildings and hates a lot of modern design. In this long-running battle, is there any middle ground?Once upon a time I found myself in a very small waiting room in St James’s Palace, furnished like a posh-but-thrifty dentist’s with old Sotheby’s catalogues and ancient copies of Country Life, the sound of clock bells and tramping guardsmen percolating from outside. I was ushered into a large room, to be grilled by associates of the then Prince of Wa