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Rowan Moore

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Born of prosperity, sunlight and optimism, California’s dream homes now lie in ashes

Born of prosperity, sunlight and optimism, California’s dream homes now lie in ashes
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The Guardian

Rowan Moore

Sheffield’s museums show how art comes to life when it is connected to place

I’ve been living partly in Sheffield for the past month or so, which has given me the chance to catch up on some of the great monuments of industry...

28.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 3

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 6

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 3

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 6

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 70

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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...

10.08.2024 2

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 10

The Guardian

Rowan Moore

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 1

The Guardian

Rowan Moore