“Bath has been a city of constructional splurges. The Romans splurged there, and the whole place must have been in a state of splurge when [it became a fashionable resort] in the 18th century … It must be hard to know how best to develop or modernise part of so elegantly homogeneous a city as Bath. You might employ one of your iconists, a Pei, a Foster or a Gehry, … [or] you could consult a Prince Charles.”