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Rowan MooreThe Guardian |
1994 was a vintage year for architecture. The year’s popular and posh classics included a dynamic football stadium (for Huddersfield Town), a...
Minster Court, a pink granite-and-marble neo-gothic office block in the City of London, a work of 1980s excess sometimes known as Monster Court or...
I only recently learned, on a trip to Barcelona, that a large part of the money for Antoni Gaudí’s glorious buildings came from slavery in Cuba, in...
The leaves are starting to change and there’s autumnal coolth in the air. Which means that the opaquely funded private organisation called Restore...
In 2008, Philip Heath, a technical manager for the insulation manufacturers Kingspan, circulated an email about some contractors who had questioned...
Last month I was privileged to arrive in County Cork, decked out in the red and white colours of its hurling team, the day before they played Clare in...
That didn’t take long. Last week, less than a month since Labour won the general election, the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner stood up in the...
Someone should write a musical about Bess of Hardwick, the Elizabethan aristocrat who got fabulously rich through her astute dealings in mining,...
A future Labour government, if we are to believe images released by Angela Rayner and generated by the campaign group Create Streets, will build...
St Helen’s Square is a nice spot in the City of London, sometimes thronged with lunching office workers, at other times a good place to pause and...
The second least surprising piece of recent news – the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial...
The video recording in which Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer will be remembered as a moving personal...
Last week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. This is the same government that last month,...
In his 1994 movie London, a classic of poetical-geographical film-making, its director-writer Patrick Keiller speculates that the BT tower, that rises...
I am trying hard to appreciate a plan to put a 19-acre vineyard on the roof of a new terminal building for Amerigo Vespucci airport in Florence, from...
We should be used by now to the uncoupling of rightwing discourse from fact. See, for example, the Daily Telegraph’s vilification of the mayor of...