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 scheme, urging him to consider alternatives. The prince requested Lord Richard Rogers' glass and steel proposal for the former army barracks in Chelsea be dropped and that a more classical ...

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 of architecture. He walks the site of a new project, observing, absorbing and brainstorming. "Dreams start," he said. "It's like falling in love." And as with love, the hard ...

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 for a new building in London. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), he apologised for a row caused during his address there 25 years ago ...