dear friends and followers. I know some of you think differently from me on transgender issues, but I hope you'll hear me out on this: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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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 linktr.ee/propertyrowanmoore
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Some days I think I should throw more old stuff away. This is not one of those days.
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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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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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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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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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... if your fingers are eighteen inches long. And comfortable with right angles. Rothschilds by OMA
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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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Doing research for my next book: 100 Ways To Mitigate Self-inflicted Headroom Hazards
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NEWS: Thomas Heatherwick to launch anti-boring architecture MA with Loughborough University bit.ly/3UGJ1Eq
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My review of @PeteApps powerful book on Grenfell. theguardian.com/books/2022/o…
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Brave, true, and clearly argued. The toxic spittle in some of the replies shows why articles like this need to be written.
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Downing Street’s new press room is in an alarming shade of Nuremberg Radisson | Rowan Moore theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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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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Songstress Charlotte Church saw her career plummet when she refused to change her name to Charlotte Mosque #foxnewsfacts #IamCharlotte
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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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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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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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happy that I had the chance to write this about the great Lynn Kinnear theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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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
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The day the music died? Welcome to Denmark Street and Tottenham Court Road’s new ‘digitally enabled streetscape’ | Architecture | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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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.
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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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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this is not bad either. Ottoman bridge in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Completed 1566, destroyed 1993, rebuilt 2004. @MagicalEurope
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Dark Ages (in the usual usage of the term) approx 500 - 1000. Ely Cathedral built 1083 - 1375. If you are going to use that insufferable know-all tone at least get your facts right.
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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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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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On beauty: theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Last week I heard @TristramHuntVA and others speak about diversity and inclusion at the launch of @young_vam Now it turns out that some mildly pro-trans material was removed from display. artsprofessional.co.uk/news/…
This is hypocrisy.
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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.
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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This one is real shocker - it's destroying public space for private profit.
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So, I'm off for a five month sabbatical from The Observer. Meanwhile, here's some reading matter.
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Sullivan in Buffalo. Delightful, innovative, to the point. Did Wright learn nothing from him? #7Buildings
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Dear Twitter. Is there an especially ugly new building near you? Let me know. Here’s an example.
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honoured to be honorary, with company such as this
📢 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: bit.ly/3e07eQe
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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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when talking about trans people, enough of the junk and spite: prospectmagazine.co.uk/magaz…
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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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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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This marketing suite is a testament to the build quality and attention to detail for which Galliard Homes are legendary.
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#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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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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This is eyewateringly brilliant. The rest of us should retire. @IanMartin gu.com/p/464ek/stw
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On Pevsner. In praise (mostly) of an eighty-year publishing monument. theguardian.com/books/articl…
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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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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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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: 111places.com/111-churches-i…
and more here: modernism-in-metroland.co.uk…
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