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Rowan Moore

Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer and was named Critic of the Year at the UK press awards 2014. He is the author of Slow Burn City and Why We Build. Follow him on twitter: @rowanmoore

September 2024

  • Office building main entrance. St Pancras Campus. Pr pic from Caruso St John for Observer Architecture feature

    Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’

  • A disco ball at the National Trust’s Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire.

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

    Rowan Moore
  • Bobby’s in Bournemouth

    Going up: Can Britain’s empty department stores be brought back to life?

  • The memorial wall next to Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2024, the seventh anniversary of the fire.

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

    Rowan Moore

August 2024

  • ‘Modest resilience next to powerful natural forces’: Grödians housing development, by Richard Gibson and his practice, on the outskirts of Lerwick. Photograph by Mark Sinclair/née gibson architects

    Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London

    Leaving forward-thinking Camden council in 1969 for the UK’s northernmost isles, the architect Richard Gibson built well-made homes for all in work that feels newly relevant…
  • Players in the All-Ireland hurling championship final

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

    Rowan Moore
    A thrilling All-Ireland final shown on the BBC highlighted the excitement of the game we’re missing out on
  • Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner Announces Government's Planning Law Reforms<br>BASINGSTOKE, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 30: Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner visits a development site in Basingstoke to mark the government's announcement of reforms to the national planning policy framework on July 30, 2024 in Basingstoke, England. The UK government has announced an overhaul to the National Planning Policy Framework to support their commitment to building 1.5 million homes over this parliament. (Photo by Ian Vogler-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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

    Rowan Moore
    Labour’s plans to ease the housing crisis should focus on quality as much as quantity

July 2024

  • a woman stands in her garden in ukraine, a new roof on her small bombed house

    Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more

  • The Haven hotel in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
  • 003 Gladstone Pottery Museum B 0023 JOD

    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  • A bronze diplodocus skeleton replica among trees and ferns in the garden

    Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there

  • Cockpit Deptford review – the subtle art of making do

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

    Rowan Moore

June 2024

  • The new ‘sarcophagus-like’ extension alongside the original coroner’s court building in Horseferry Road, London SW1

    Westminster coroner’s court extension review – an extension of deep sympathy

    A Beatrix Potter-meets-ancient-Rome aesthetic brings and dignity and intimacy to Patrick Lynch’s addition to the coroner’s court that held the hearings into Grenfell and the Westminster Bridge attacks
  • David Chipperfield in Galicia, with views of the Ría de Arousa

    Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

    He’s renowned for big-budget museums and galleries. But the architect’s long-term project in Galicia is all about fundamental, low-key ways to change communities for the better

    • Notebook
      Labour’s chocolate box urban utopia is one election promise it can’t fulfil

      Rowan Moore

    • Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful

    • Stirling prize 2024: a two-horse race?

May 2024

  • Church spires sit next to skyscrapers in the City of London.

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

    Rowan Moore
  • Composite image of buildings that have been sold off, for sale signs, and falling coins

    Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

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