Rowan Moore
Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer and was named Critic of the Year at the UK press awards 2014. He is the author of He is the author of Slow Burn City and Why We Build. Follow him on twitter: @rowanmoore
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In a rare British project, Rem Koolhaas’s OMA have designed a luxury west London apartment block whose sale will partly fund the new Design Museum – the old Commonwealth Institute – next door. It was a tricky brief…
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The only way to redress the shortfall in the number of UK homes is a huge programme of public building
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Tom Clark is joined by Dave Hill, Rowan Moore and Tony Travers as he travels around the capital ahead of London’s mayoral election. With the city’s housing crisis in sharp focus, do the promises of Labour’s Sadiq Khan or Conservative Zac Goldsmith stack up?
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Art and architecture rub up against each other in all the right ways in Christ and Gantenbein’s new extension to Basel’s 1930s art museum
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This celebration of all things concrete will please both its aficionados and those who find it hard to love
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A stylish new London community centre that meets its users needs and blends with its surroundings – what’s not to like?
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Dissenting voices have been drowned out by relentless cheerleading for London’s proposed Thames crossing
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Hull’s selection as UK City of Culture 2017 has surprised many, but this once prosperous port has been ignored for too long
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Jaccaud Zein’s new London housing development is an exemplar of thoughtful design
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Lambeth council wants to knock down the beautifully designed Central Hill estate
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A Royal Academy exhibition honouring thinkers who can ‘articulate the future’ highlights a void in contemporary architecture
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If London is given the go-ahead for concert hall Simon Rattle dreams of, it must, above all, get its acoustics right. But it should be architecturally nuanced too
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From the astonishing Pantheon to a Chilean cliff-top villa, here are some of the world’s best concrete structures
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Postmodernism gave Britain the brash, playful architecture of No 1 Poultry, Aztec West business park and the home of MI6. Now, as many of these buildings approach the 30-year eligibility limit for listed status, it’s decision time…
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The young members of the London collective have created a striking range of projects that resolutely value people not profits
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The hard-hat chancellor: what kind of Britain is George Osborne building?