The magazine Building Design awarded a prize named for one of these things to the ugliest building built in the UK that year. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this term coined in an architectural context by King Charles III, who called a proposed modernist extension to the National Gallery a “monstrous” one of these things.
ANSWER: carbuncle [accept “monstrous carbuncle”; accept Carbuncle Cup]
[10e] This architect’s plan for Mansion House Square, a London office tower, was never implemented after Charles called it a “giant glass stump.” This German architect coined the maxim “Less is more.”
ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (“meese van der roh”) [or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]
[10m] Charles compared this architect’s plans for rebuilding Paternoster Square with buildings bombed by the Luftwaffe. This British architect of the costly Millennium Dome, now called the O2, co-designed a French museum with colored piping on the exterior.
ANSWER: Richard Rogers [or Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside] (King Charles said, “You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings, it didn’t replace them with anything more offensive than rubble.”)
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