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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 Slow Burn City and Why We Build. Follow him on twitter: @rowanmoore

August 2024

  • Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner Announces Government's Planning Law Reforms<br>BASINGSTOKE, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 30: Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner visits a development site in Basingstoke to mark the government's announcement of reforms to the national planning policy framework on July 30, 2024 in Basingstoke, England. The UK government has announced an overhaul to the National Planning Policy Framework to support their commitment to building 1.5 million homes over this parliament. (Photo by Ian Vogler-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

    Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

    Rowan Moore
    Labour’s plans to ease the housing crisis should focus on quality as much as quantity

July 2024

  • a woman stands in her garden in ukraine, a new roof on her small bombed house

    Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more

  • The Haven hotel in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
  • 003 Gladstone Pottery Museum B 0023 JOD

    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  • A bronze diplodocus skeleton replica among trees and ferns in the garden

    Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there

  • Cockpit Deptford review – the subtle art of making do

  • Notebook
    The once dazzling Hardwick Hall shows us a past neverendingly radical and strange

    Rowan Moore

June 2024

  • The new ‘sarcophagus-like’ extension alongside the original coroner’s court building in Horseferry Road, London SW1

    Westminster coroner’s court extension review – an extension of deep sympathy

    A Beatrix Potter-meets-ancient-Rome aesthetic brings and dignity and intimacy to Patrick Lynch’s addition to the coroner’s court that held the hearings into Grenfell and the Westminster Bridge attacks
  • David Chipperfield in Galicia, with views of the Ría de Arousa

    Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

    He’s renowned for big-budget museums and galleries. But the architect’s long-term project in Galicia is all about fundamental, low-key ways to change communities for the better

    • Notebook
      Labour’s chocolate box urban utopia is one election promise it can’t fulfil

      Rowan Moore

    • Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful

    • Stirling prize 2024: a two-horse race?

May 2024

  • Church spires sit next to skyscrapers in the City of London.

    Divisive, ugly, gloomy: when will the City of London see the light on tall towers?

    Rowan Moore
  • Composite image of buildings that have been sold off, for sale signs, and falling coins

    Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

  • The Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, in 2002 – before it was destroyed by a fire in 2018.

    Notebook
    I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past

    Rowan Moore
  • The burned-out interior of the Glasgow School of Art

    Glasgow’s burned-out marvel: will the restoration of Mackintosh’s School of Art ever happen?

April 2024

  • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

    ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

  • 06/10/2012 Haringey, London UK, a placard leans against an estate agent window as Haringey housing action group carry out an inspection of local lettings agencies in protest at discrimination against housing benefit claimants, high rents and high agency charges. Over 20,000 households in Haringey rent their homes from private landlords, and about half of these are claiming housing benefit.<br>CM54AH 06/10/2012 Haringey, London UK, a placard leans against an estate agent window as Haringey housing action group carry out an inspection of local lettings agencies in protest at discrimination against housing benefit claimants, high rents and high agency charges. Over 20,000 households in Haringey rent their homes from private landlords, and about half of these are claiming housing benefit.

    Book of the day
    Against Landlords by Nick Bano review – valuable ideas for how to solve Britain’s housing crisis

  • CGI depicting proposed South East Faversham development

    Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?

  • A CGI image of the Line in Saudi Arabia

    Notebook
    Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

    Rowan Moore
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