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Architecture Critic, Observer

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Joined June 2009
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
7 years
And here's the map. Buy now or be sorry.
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@RowanMoore
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My first time. It didn’t disappoint
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1 year
What fresh hell is this
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@RowanMoore
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2 years
I will never not love a railway line held up by cast iron Paestum doric
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
The Future of Architectural Criticism
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 months
I am delighted to say that my new book, a must for anyone who wants to understand the weird state of property and housing, will be launched on November 2nd. Pre-order now
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
25 days
Amazed and delighted by this 3D Tudor glazing at Haddon Hall
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 months
Some days I think I should throw more old stuff away. This is not one of those days.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Brick says to you, "I like a prefabricated panel that can be craned into position to make some skinny cladding for a steel framed car park, set out on a non-aligned grid, with some cheeky references to Louis Kahn"
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
There I was wondering why this sub-par Basil Spence is listed and then the sun came out and oh my the concrete
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Good luck with making an iPhone 11 into a keystone
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
Now that’s what I call a decorated shed. Italian Chapel, Orkney.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Every time I go to the Barbican I’m more impressed. It’s a really superb typology for high-density living that should be followed more often. Its flaws - the circulation, the edges - are both exaggerated and not intrinsic to the idea.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
6 years
Here's a beautiful European building for @MagicalEurope . It's the Great Mosque in Corboba, Spain, started in 784, and testimony to the civilisation created by the Ummayad rulers of Andalusia.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
3 months
Sir Terry Farrell on form here
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
... if your fingers are eighteen inches long. And comfortable with right angles. Rothschilds by OMA
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
My dear Dad, Richard Moore, gracious and generous man, lifelong liberal, Liberal and European, has died. As others have said on twitter lately, value your parents while you can.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Yesssssss. John Outram's New House in Wadhurst Grade I listed.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
When the Scots want to do fuck-off brutalism they don’t mess about. (Aberdeen)
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
6 years
Stansted airport. Vision and reality.
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Rowan Moore
3 months
Yawn
@ArchitectsJrnal
Architects’ Journal
3 months
NEWS: Thomas Heatherwick to launch anti-boring architecture MA with Loughborough University
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
This hotel room has quite the view
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5 months
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5 years
Bofill’s Walden 7. Still WTF after all these years.
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@RowanMoore
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1 year
St Clements West Thurrock never fails to bring joy
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Rowan Moore
1 month
This is quite beautiful really
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
9 months
Launch night! Thank you ⁦ @Dauntbooks ⁩ and thank you William Morris for the backdrop
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
6 years
This is not great architecture
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 months
This is a wonderfully terrible piece of architecture
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
8 months
Tough on crime
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
Brave, true, and clearly argued. The toxic spittle in some of the replies shows why articles like this need to be written.
@kathryn42
Kathryn Bromwich
1 year
I've wanted to write this for a long time. Cis women should stand in solidarity with the trans community ✊🏳️‍⚧️✨
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
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Am enjoying these contrasting approaches to window embrasures
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 months
Has anyone got a name for this order of architecture?
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 months
Leon Batista Alberti was quite a weird architect.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Joy
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
2 years
I can’t let 2022 recede too far in the rearview mirror without celebrating the fact that it was an outstanding year for architecture books. Here, in no particular order, are some of the best. (Apologies for any I have left out).
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
6 months
May I say how profoundly happy I am to be married to ⁦ @MulreadyMolly ⁩ And how grateful to everyone who made it such a special day. ⁦ @NoraMulready ⁩ ⁦ @DollyvanT ⁩ ⁦ @_seangriffiths ⁩ ⁦ @carolynsteel ⁩ ⁦ @StPaulsLondon ⁩ ⁦ @LDNIrishCentre
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
To have designed something as light as the Hopkins House, and as meaty as Westminster tube station, and do both with equal conviction, takes some doing. Rest In Peace Michael Hopkins. You were a proper maker.
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Rowan Moore
4 years
Does anyone know the story behind this Rondocubist outbreak on the side of Lutyens’ Reuters? The stone suggests a later alteration. The windows suggest not later by much.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
10 years
Songstress Charlotte Church saw her career plummet when she refused to change her name to Charlotte Mosque #foxnewsfacts #IamCharlotte
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Rowan Moore
6 years
Mixed use
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
Say what you like about Gothic architects but they knew how to do value engineering.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
It's always good to see Charles Moore trending
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
I think that the one on the left must be quite bad for the mental health of @Culture_Crit as it evidently feeds his obsession with mean-spirited and simplistic comparisons
@Culture_Crit
Culture Critic
1 year
Does anyone actually believe these two buildings have the same impact on the mental health of the population?
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Rowan Moore
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I am so so sorry to hear this. So much dedication, scholarship and belief, all delivered with that wonderful raucous voice and style that was very much not that of your usual architectural historian. The best in the business.
@OSaumarezSmith
Otto Saumarez Smith
1 year
No one will ever see more, or know more about, post-war architecture than Elain Harwood - it would be impossible. Tragic for my discipline & @C20Society all that knowledge, kindness, & energy has gone. Here looking glam at book launch for her magisterial Space Hope & Brutalism:
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Rowan Moore
4 years
@realnickperry the bit that a lot of people don't get is how fundamental and essential it is. There sometimes seems to be an underlying assumption that you can just snap out of it, that you can make another choice. In which case the Bell v Tavistock decision might seem reasonable.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
1 year
Wonderful drawings by Ernö Goldfinger and Sarah Wigglesworth ⁦ @SoaneMuseum
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
6 years
this is not bad either. Ottoman bridge in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Completed 1566, destroyed 1993, rebuilt 2004. @MagicalEurope
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
God is in the details. (Mies’ National Gallery stripped for restoration).
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 months
Bishopsgate looking quite noir today
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
There was Austerity, then Brexit, now Coronavirus. I don’t want to know what begins with D.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
11 years
Who did this? (Micro housing in Smithfield) http://t.co/L1CxjJAXmu
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
Sorry to bang on about this but: In 2017 Tories get 42.4%. Catastrophe. May ridiculed etc In 2019 Tories get 43.6% Stunning vindication for Boris.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
10 years
Patrick Caulfield's grave, Highgate Cemetery http://t.co/UFvttJ6hu8
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
5 years
is this viral yet? If not, why not? #brexitpost
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Rowan Moore
1 year
Easy to forget quite how bonkers is the Basilica San Marco
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
30 days
Some people talk about the glass at Hardwick Hall and other people talk about the tapestries. They don’t talk enough about how the two went together, how the windows would have lit up the fabrics
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
3 years
The Thames on Wednesday
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Rowan Moore
2 years
This is good
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Rowan Moore
1 year
This is desperately sad news. Jean-Louis Cohen was enlightened, wise, witty, charming. The best in his field. In any room he was in, you could feel the intellectual energy go up.
@IsabRegnier
Isabelle Regnier
1 year
Jean-Louis Cohen est parti. Encyclopédie vivante, du Corbusier, du constructivisme russe, de Frank O. Gehry, entres autre, l’homme était d’une érudition exceptionnelle, très sympathique par ailleurs, en première ligne pour défendre la cause du patrimoine moderne. RIP
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Rowan Moore
1 year
And this.
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Rowan Moore
5 years
There should be a word for politicians who promise utterly derisory sums of money to fix national problems and hope we won't notice. I'm tired, it's getting late, so I'll settle for Cunts.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
Dear Twitter. Is there an especially ugly new building near you? Let me know. Here’s an example.
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Rowan Moore
4 years
Sullivan in Buffalo. Delightful, innovative, to the point. Did Wright learn nothing from him? #7Buildings
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Rowan Moore
1 year
I know the Barbican doesn’t respect the old street pattern and that’s a Bad Thing but if it did there wouldn’t be these gorgeous gardens would there?
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
honoured to be honorary, with company such as this
@RIBA
Royal Institute of British Architects
4 years
📢 The 2021 RIBA Honorary Fellows have now been announced. The 2021 RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded to individuals from varied backgrounds including education, arts, engineering and business. For more information on each of the fellows, visit:
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Rowan Moore
4 years
and for the worst #7buildings I have to have Calatrava's Science Museum in Valencia. A vast sw-facing glass roof. In Spain. An over-designed structure doing almost nothing but hold itself up. An almost unuseable interior
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Rowan Moore
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I think Ian would have appreciated this tribute
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
4 years
#7buildings Buckingham Palace. One long after dinner burp. The perfect representation of unearned honour. It is to good classical architecture what Prince Andrew is to chivalry.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
7 years
The scandal now is how they managed to spend 40 mil not building the #gardenbridge Someone shd swing for this (Boris)
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Rowan Moore
2 years
when talking about trans people, enough of the junk and spite:
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
3 years
This marketing suite is a testament to the build quality and attention to detail for which Galliard Homes are legendary.
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
9 years
This is eyewateringly brilliant. The rest of us should retire. @IanMartin http://t.co/lyFGb5lX5q
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
3 years
one from the archive. Rogers, Zaha and a dead sheep provided by a Lebanese restaurant. Commiseration party after the Cardiff Opera debacle of (I think) 1995.
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Rowan Moore
6 years
This is a brute
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Rowan Moore
6 months
Dear Twitter. I know of a collection of architectural books looking for a good home. Do you have any suggestions of institutions/libraries/anyone else whoever who would welcome such a thing?
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
2 years
RIP Lavender 2001 - 2022. Not bad for a cat.
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1 year
Coronation bollard cosies in Battle, Sussex. ⁦Have you seen these ⁦ @WorldBollard ⁩ ?
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Rowan Moore
4 years
How can I have never come across the amazing churches of N.F.(Nugent) Cachemaille-Day? Thank you to Emma-Rose Barber's excellent new book for the introduction: and more here:
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
7 years
Profound thanks to Madelon Vriesendorp for this wisdom @LSofARCH
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Rowan Moore
6 years
Hello @MagicalEurope I've got a beautiful European building for you
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Rowan Moore
4 years
Golden Lane Christmas
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Rowan Moore
3 years
The July 1987 edition of Blueprint just keeps on giving
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Rowan Moore
3 years
1930 was a good year for building completions
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@RowanMoore
Rowan Moore
10 months
2 things are true about the #StirlingPrize winner. 1. it's an admirable example of how to #humanise architecture. 2. it's hard to believe it's the absolute best of its crop in the whole country @sgaventa @timabrahams
@RIBAJ
RIBA Journal
10 months
Congratulations to John Morden Centre by Mæ, winner of the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize. The day and medical care centre is ‘a place of joy and inspiration… a bold and hopeful model’ for elderly care, say judges #RibaAwards #StirlingPrize #ribajreview
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Rowan Moore
1 year
an absolutely unarguably good choice.
@PritzkerPrize
Pritzker Prize
1 year
“The concept of only protecting the best, which is what we've managed to get our heads around, is not enough. It's also a matter of protecting character and qualities that reflect the richness of the evolution of the city.” Sir David Chipperfield CH. Photo: Ute Zscharnt for DCA
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I’m enjoying this, by a Yorkshire Piacentini
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Rowan Moore
7 years
In Racine. This is wonderful. Almost sorry I said mean things about FLW
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