London’s Paternoster Square, in the shadow of St. Paul’s, has opened after decades-long battles as to what whould be built there. “To those sickened by the damage inflicted on Britain’s cities and towns by modernist planners and architects, Paternoster Square was a battle cry. If the setting of St Paul’s was not sacred, then where in Britain was? To modernist architects and their supporters, it was no less emotive. If the classicists could capture such a major site in the heart of the City of London, who knew where the counter-revolution might end? It was, of course around the figure of the Prince of Wales, then at the height of his campaign to roll back the boundaries of modernism, that the battle raged and swirled. Like Verdun, the end result was stalemate.”