Rowan Moore
@rowanmoore.bsky.social
Architecture critic, The Observer
New edition of Property out in January
New edition of Property out in January
Liberace crosses the Delaware: me on the new look White House
Trump’s White House renovation is ‘classic despot’
Our architecture critic’s verdict on the newest ballroom in Washington, DC
observer.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Liberace crosses the Delaware: me on the new look White House
This is a really great choice. Such love in the room when it was announced #stirlingprize
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
observer.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a really great choice. Such love in the room when it was announced #stirlingprize
Read this: a rare outbreak of truth in the immigration debate
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
www.law.ox.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Read this: a rare outbreak of truth in the immigration debate
Still magnificent after all these years
May 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Still magnificent after all these years
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"In a debate that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, a bit more honesty would help."
@rowanmoore.bsky.social
@rowanmoore.bsky.social
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
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"In a debate that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, a bit more honesty would help."
@rowanmoore.bsky.social
@rowanmoore.bsky.social
I greatly love this city
April 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I greatly love this city
Name the architect, and the city
April 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Name the architect, and the city
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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.
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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.
How to solve the house price conundrum? Look no further than Gwynedd in Wales
February 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
How to solve the house price conundrum? Look no further than Gwynedd in Wales
Magical, this, from Al and Pete
February 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Magical, this, from Al and Pete
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"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.
@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.
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
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"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.
@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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I can't wait to get my copy!!!
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...
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
February 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I can't wait to get my copy!!!
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...
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
February 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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...
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Thank you
Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Nice piece from @rowanmoore.bsky.social on the limits to Labour's 'build, build, build' approach to the housing crisis, referencing my work.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Thank you
Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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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...
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@labouruk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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...
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
@labouruk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If you are yet to discover the work of the Montreal architect Dan Hanganu, much joy awaits you
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you are yet to discover the work of the Montreal architect Dan Hanganu, much joy awaits you
More church spires should be clad in tin
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
More church spires should be clad in tin
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Really nasty stuff.
January 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Really nasty stuff.
I believe that the theme of Expo 67 was Totally Misguided Yet Nonetheless Impressive Visions Of The Future
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I believe that the theme of Expo 67 was Totally Misguided Yet Nonetheless Impressive Visions Of The Future
“All buildings are predictions of the future and predictions are always wrong”
January 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“All buildings are predictions of the future and predictions are always wrong”
Perfectly beautiful and perfectly useless
January 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Perfectly beautiful and perfectly useless
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🌳 '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...
@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...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🌳 '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...
@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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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".
January 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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".