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Rowan Moore

Rowan Moore

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What connects Huddersfield’s 1990s football stadium and Notre Dame? Beauty

1994 was a vintage year for architecture. The year’s popular and posh classics included a dynamic football stadium (for Huddersfield Town), a...

30.11.2024 10

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Dracula’s Castle, a monument to 1980s excess, is about to be cruelly defanged

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...

02.11.2024 90

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Is Gaudí’s park a blot on Barcelona’s landscape because it was funded by the slave trade?

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...

05.10.2024 10

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The National Trust must resist the group that wants to turn grievances into policy

The leaves are starting to change and there’s autumnal coolth in the air. Which means that the opaquely funded private organisation called Restore...

07.09.2024 10

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The Grenfell inquiry is exposing a culture of contempt that has run deep in Britain for decades

In 2008, Philip Heath, a technical manager for the insulation manufacturers Kingspan, circulated an email about some contractors who had questioned...

01.09.2024 80

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Hurling could be a global phenomenon if it weren’t such an unexportable sport

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...

10.08.2024 6

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

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...

04.08.2024 20

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

Someone should write a musical about Bess of Hardwick, the Elizabethan aristocrat who got fabulously rich through her astute dealings in mining,...

13.07.2024 10

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Labour’s chocolate box urban utopia is one election promise it can’t fulfill

A future Labour government, if we are to believe images released by Angela Rayner and generated by the campaign group Create Streets, will build...

15.06.2024 20

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

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...

26.05.2024 80

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

18.05.2024 50

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

The second least surprising piece of recent news – the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial...

20.04.2024 10

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The Observer view on The Princess of Wales: calm and courage amid a family already beset by crises

The video recording in which Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer will be remembered as a moving personal...

23.03.2024 20

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Notebook In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy

Last week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. This is the same government that last month,...

23.03.2024 20

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Notebook London’s BT Tower is to be ‘repurposed’ – let’s just hope no one messes with its 60s perfection

In his 1994 movie London, a classic of poetical-geographical film-making, its director-writer Patrick Keiller speculates that the BT tower, that rises...

24.02.2024 8

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Notebook Chateau Florence airport, anyone? A bouquet of fumes and jet fuel beckons

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...

27.01.2024 20

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Notebook Talkshow host Jesse Kelly turns taking liberties with the facts into an art form

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...

30.12.2023 7

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