Rowan Moore

Architecture Critic, Observer

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

All creations great and small: inside this year’s Riba Stirling prize

From an 18-storey office to the Natural History Museum’s own Jurassic park, the 126-strong longlist mixes scale, artistry and public significance, @RowanMoore
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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The Times & the Telegraph now in full grip of Misan derangement syndrome. Send help.

It’s almost as if a black man with outspoken views on Gaza is some sort of target? 🤔

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

@HomerPavlos Owls don't have blue eyes

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

@JackPosobiec Hector, Priam, Aeneas and Paris were Asian

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

@Variety In the 2004 film Troy they got a German to play Helen, a Yorkshireman to play Odysseus and two Irishmen to play Menelaus and Priam. All from places far from the eastern Mediterranean. Yet somehow none of the outrage that comes with casting an African now.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

Yup

[𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗖 ² @mattcrotts]

Glad this is being discussed.
We have lost so much

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

@HimothyReports my daughter, who's a season ticket holder, had to pull out the London Marathon with a damaged patella. So yes

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

“I was a Jewish person in Palestine, and it is my emotional and my professional duty to work for the liberation of this place.”

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

‘It is my duty to work for the liberation of Gaza’ says @weizman_eyal

The Israeli-born Jew founded @ForensicArchi to map the physical fabric of crime scenes, including those in war. He explains to @RowanMoore why he believes Israel is committing genocide
https://t.co/Ao8k58gQSV

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

‘It is my duty to work for the liberation of Gaza’ says @weizman_eyal

The Israeli-born Jew founded @ForensicArchi to map the physical fabric of crime scenes, including those in war. He explains to @RowanMoore why he believes Israel is committing genocide
https://t.co/Ao8k58gQSV

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

“Britain’s got a very proud history of social housing, it was pretty much invented here” Rowan Moore, Architecture Critic, The Observer.

In our latest podcast series, Making Sense of Social Housing, hear Rowan Moore’s reflections on some of the most iconic and respected social housing developments that the UK has built over the past fifty years, and how the current government could learn from their success.

You can listen to Making Sense of Social Housing here.
https://t.co/PnvVmmLzmX

Making Sense of Social Housing is produced together with Lloyds Banking Group

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

Highly recommended, Pavel Otdelnov’s 'Estates: Fragile Utopia'  - 'an artistic investigation of post-war British council housing as a material residue of a now-fractured social contract'. At Lewisham Arthouse till the 20th.
https://t.co/bn1fQaqeui

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

delighted to be talking with the peerless and indefatigible @Victoria_Spratt at the first ever @Barnsburybookf. About housing, injustice and the forthcoming We Were Promised The Moon. In which she asks: were young adults mis-sold a future?
https://t.co/k3s9YbKfFA

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

@Fx1Jonny You’ll love this map from the 1930s

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

thank you everyone. I'm delighted to say that she's been found, so I'll be deleting this post

[Rowan Moore @RowanMoore]

Visiting the Zaha Hadid Foundation

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The killing of dozens of girls at a primary school in Iran is not on the front page of a single British newspaper.

A simple test - imagine the reaction if they were Israelis.
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[Joe Allen @Joe___Allen]

Slightly unfashionable view these days but I think the Senedd building is a beautiful, modern parliament.

Good to see MSs returning to it today.

[Eamonn Canniffe @eamonncanniffe]

‘Schinkel in Manchester’ an exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of his visit to Manchester on 17 July 1826 is now on display at @TheMSArch until 13 March (Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 245th birthday) #karlfriedrichschinkel #manchester

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

Apart from a single year 1950-51, the Conservatives were in power throughout the 1950s. The total lack of historical understanding of Britain’s commitment to modernising - across society - in the post war years is remarkable.