Clive Aslet

How Margaret Thatcher could have saved London’s skyline

If, like Prince Albert, the then Prince Charles had been appointed head of the Royal Fine Art Commission, we might have been spared many architectural outrages

Construction of London’s Nine Elms Lane development. [Alamy] 
issue 25 May 2024
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