Dog Bites Man Update: Stephen Bayley Barks Again

THE ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE CRITIC who said about an immensely popular new town developed by Prince Charles, "Ill show you a real carbuncle, Charles," also wrote the following about the building below:

Enemies of interesting modern buildings often seek refuge in puerile nursery imagery - carbuncles, wirelesses, gherkins and so on - when they cannot organise credible arguments.

...how wonderfully exciting to see stuffy old Prague at last getting ready to see its first excellent building since the 18th century. 'A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone.'

It's as though they increasingly want the world to rise up and reject their silly ideas.

Happily, the residents of the beautiful and historic city of Prague have done just that.