the great @vickyspratt.bsky.social and I will be talking at the first ever Barnsbury Book Festival. About her book Tenants and her forthcoming We Were Promised The Moon. Were young adults, she asks, mis-sold a future? Friday 17th April. Buy tickets while you can: www.tickettailor.com/events/barns...

Liberace crosses the Delaware: me on the new look White House

This is a really great choice. Such love in the room when it was announced #stirlingprize

Read this: a rare outbreak of truth in the immigration debate

Still magnificent after all these years

"In a debate that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, a bit more honesty would help." @rowanmoore.bsky.social

I greatly love this city

Name the architect, and the city

Last Friday I finished reading Property @rowanmoore.bsky.social It has changed how I think about my home, houses around me, village church, local shop, struggles of my family & so many others, and how I read the news. Possession, when compared with property, informs alienation & belonging.

How to solve the house price conundrum? Look no further than Gwynedd in Wales

Magical, this, from Al and Pete

"It’s a fat-thin, heavy-light, orderly-informal, messy-coherent, serious-playful sort of place". @rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.

I can't wait to get my copy!!!

Out now: the new edition of Property: the Myth that Built the World. With added chapter How to Solve a Housing Crisis www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Thank you Read more about it here www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

government strategy on the #HousingCrisis is as poorly considered as I feared. please read reminder of excellent recommendations by @rowanmoore.bsky.social to alter course: @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Grain silos ❤️

If you are yet to discover the work of the Montreal architect Dan Hanganu, much joy awaits you

More church spires should be clad in tin

Really nasty stuff.

I believe that the theme of Expo 67 was Totally Misguided Yet Nonetheless Impressive Visions Of The Future

“All buildings are predictions of the future and predictions are always wrong”

Perfectly beautiful and perfectly useless

🌳 'A slice of 1970s Babylon restored' @rowanmoore.bsky.social in The Observer on the green renovation of the Grade II listed Mountbatten / Gateway House (Arup Associates and James Russell, 1974-76) - more popularly known as the 'Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke'. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Oh hey! He's also on bluesky! @rowanmoore.bsky.social Follow him here, and if you want to learn more about his thoughts on architecture, pick up "Why We Build" and "Slow Burn City".

🙌 @carletonu.bsky.social school of architecture for hosting at OAG @rowanmoore.bsky.social Forum on housing policy, housing economics, housing politics... design and planning are choices. 👇🤓📚 launch coming 🥁 #HousingOttawa

This is about as close as medical professionals will ever get to saying "it's a load of old shite". They're damning words. www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/21/c...

This is good

Wordle 1,290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I feel I have to share my Wordle joy

Lovely to see Sheffield and Derby's unique and often under-appreciated (and certainly under-funded) artistic mix being referenced by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in the Observer @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @derbymuseums.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Christmas spare a thought for Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, and his court, who being a follower of the Arian heresy got cancelled from the mosaics in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna. They left a hand behind, though.

Big queer carols in St Marks Sheffield. With modern-gothic architecture by George Pace

Huddersfield looks radiant today

Interesting, to brand a wine from Tuscany with building from Venice

I was nauseated by the Clarkson-Farage march to save their tax breaks, but this farmer’s article has the ring of truth. It must surely be possible to end the former without punishing people like her

Show me a “trad” building, from any time in the last fifty years, that is as beautiful as this

Oriel Chambers, the world's first building featuring a metal framed glass curtain wall, Peter Ellis, Liverpool, 1864

I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine | Kenan Malik This is a great article. Every point bang on.

John Prescott gave me lift once after I’d interviewed him. He said, “I’m sorry, I left my other Jag at home”.

Construction is the world’s biggest polluter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it | Simon Jenkins. I don’t agree with Simon Jenkins about many things, but he’s almost entirely right here