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Rowan Moore

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Architecture critic, The Observer New edition of Property out in January

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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the great @vickyspratt.bsky.social and I will be talking at the first ever Barnsbury Book Festival. About her book Tenants and her forthcoming We Were Promised The Moon. Were young adults, she asks, mis-sold a future? Friday 17th April. Buy tickets while you can: www.tickettailor.com/events/barns...
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Buy tickets – Rowan Moore and Vicky Spratt – St Andrew's Church
Rowan Moore and Vicky Spratt – St Andrew's Church, Fri 17 Apr 2026 - Rowan Moore with Vicky Spratt Doors open 15 minutes before event starts. Please be prompt - latecomers who are more than 10 minutes late will not be admitted. We reserve the right to change venues. You will be notified of any change of venue....
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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No commission for old men: the National Gallery’s new extension deserves better | The Observer
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Liberace crosses the Delaware: me on the new look White House
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Trump’s White House renovation is ‘classic despot’
Our architecture critic’s verdict on the newest ballroom in Washington, DC
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is a really great choice. Such love in the room when it was announced #stirlingprize
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Why a radical ‘new almshouse’ won the Stirling prize
Appleby Blue, an elegant building in Bermondsey containing 59 flats for the over-65s, aims to provide homes that are sociable, enjoyable and serene
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Read this: a rare outbreak of truth in the immigration debate
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New report calls for evidence-based debate on the
A new report from the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights examines how the European Convention on
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Still magnificent after all these years
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"In a debate that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, a bit more honesty would help." @rowanmoore.bsky.social
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Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint | Rowan Moore
The Catholic church has taken the first steps to canonise the architect of Barcelona’s extraordinary Sagrada Família
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I greatly love this city
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Name the architect, and the city
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Wendy Bryant @drwmb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Last Friday I finished reading Property @rowanmoore.bsky.social It has changed how I think about my home, houses around me, village church, local shop, struggles of my family & so many others, and how I read the news. Possession, when compared with property, informs alienation & belonging.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
How to solve the house price conundrum? Look no further than Gwynedd in Wales
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Magical, this, from Al and Pete
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RCKa architects @rcka.co.uk · 10/02/2025
"It’s a fat-thin, heavy-light, orderly-informal, messy-coherent, serious-playful sort of place". @rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.
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Highgate Newtown Community Centre review – if you’re looking for design that humanises, here it is
An old Territorial Army drill hall has been transformed into an inspiring mixed-used development for local people that’s more than the sum of its parts
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Joules Grégoire @joules-generator.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I can't wait to get my copy!!!
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Out now: the new edition of Property: the Myth that Built the World. With added chapter How to Solve a Housing Crisis www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Michael Holms Coats @m-holms-coats.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
government strategy on the #HousingCrisis is as poorly considered as I feared. please read reminder of excellent recommendations by @rowanmoore.bsky.social to alter course: @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Peace, permanence and affordable prices: six ways to solve Britain’s housing crisis
Taking anxiety off the market to create a better society is not easy – but it can be done, says our architecture critic
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Grain silos ❤️
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you are yet to discover the work of the Montreal architect Dan Hanganu, much joy awaits you
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
More church spires should be clad in tin
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Really nasty stuff.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I believe that the theme of Expo 67 was Totally Misguided Yet Nonetheless Impressive Visions Of The Future
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“All buildings are predictions of the future and predictions are always wrong”
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Perfectly beautiful and perfectly useless
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🌳 'A slice of 1970s Babylon restored' @rowanmoore.bsky.social in The Observer on the green renovation of the Grade II listed Mountbatten / Gateway House (Arup Associates and James Russell, 1974-76) - more popularly known as the 'Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke'. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘A slice of 1970s Babylon restored’: living the office dream at the Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke
This trailblazing office building by Arup Architects has been treated to a subtle £32m renovation that still has wellness at its heart
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Joules Grégoire @joules-generator.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oh hey! He's also on bluesky! @rowanmoore.bsky.social Follow him here, and if you want to learn more about his thoughts on architecture, pick up "Why We Build" and "Slow Burn City".
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Mathieu Fleury @matfleury.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🙌 @carletonu.bsky.social school of architecture for hosting at OAG @rowanmoore.bsky.social Forum on housing policy, housing economics, housing politics... design and planning are choices. 👇🤓📚 launch coming 🥁 #HousingOttawa
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is about as close as medical professionals will ever get to saying "it's a load of old shite". They're damning words. www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/21/c...
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Cass Review has 'high risk of bias', US medical experts warn
The Cass Review reportedly has a 'high risk' of bias according to a recent report published by US medical experts.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is good
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Wordle 1,290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I feel I have to share my Wordle joy
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Simon Seligman @oybat.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Lovely to see Sheffield and Derby's unique and often under-appreciated (and certainly under-funded) artistic mix being referenced by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in the Observer @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @derbymuseums.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sheffield’s museums show how art comes to life when it is connected to place | Rowan Moore
Institutions in and around the city combine great works with humdrum relics of local life, to fantastic effect
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This Christmas spare a thought for Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, and his court, who being a follower of the Arian heresy got cancelled from the mosaics in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna. They left a hand behind, though.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Big queer carols in St Marks Sheffield. With modern-gothic architecture by George Pace
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Huddersfield looks radiant today
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Interesting, to brand a wine from Tuscany with building from Venice
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I was nauseated by the Clarkson-Farage march to save their tax breaks, but this farmer’s article has the ring of truth. It must surely be possible to end the former without punishing people like her
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My family has grown Britain’s food for 140 years. Here’s what politicians don’t understand about farming | Clare Wise
We’ve cared for our farm through war, pandemic and money worries. The inheritance tax row shows how little the government respects that, says Clare Wise, a farmer based in County Durham
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Show me a “trad” building, from any time in the last fifty years, that is as beautiful as this
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Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Oriel Chambers, the world's first building featuring a metal framed glass curtain wall, Peter Ellis, Liverpool, 1864
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine | Kenan Malik This is a great article. Every point bang on.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
John Prescott gave me lift once after I’d interviewed him. He said, “I’m sorry, I left my other Jag at home”.
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Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Construction is the world’s biggest polluter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it | Simon Jenkins. I don’t agree with Simon Jenkins about many things, but he’s almost entirely right here
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