Question

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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago ADuke A0101020
Chicago BFlorida A010010
Chicago CHarvard A010010
Claremont AWUSTL B010010
Columbia BJohns Hopkins A010010
Cornell AMaryland A10101030
Georgia Tech ABrown A0101020
Georgia Tech BIllinois A010010
Imperial AHouston A10101030
Indiana ANorth Carolina A010010
MIT ACornell B010010
McGill AYale B010010
Michigan AMinnesota B0000
NYU AUC Berkeley B10101030
Northwestern AColumbia A0101020
Penn AIowa State A010010
Purdue ARutgers B010010
Rutgers APenn State A0101020
Stanford AOhio State A0101020
Toronto ATexas A010010
UC Berkeley AMinnesota A010010
Vanderbilt AFlorida B010010
Virginia ASouth Carolina A010010
Yale AWUSTL A0101020