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Rowan Moore

Architecture critic

Photo of Rowan Moore

Rowan Moore

Architecture critic

  • Rowan Moore
    The year in architecture

    Rowan Moore on the great losses and best new buildings of 2025

    Thu, 25 Dec 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Has football already come home?

    Is Belgium paving the way for more international action over Gaza? Have the Lionesses paved the way for a permanent change in English football culture? What’s going on at Unite?

    35 min • S1, E253

  • Rowan Moore
    How a brutalist bolthole became Riba’s house of the year

    Caochan na Creige is a place of peace and warmth on a Hebridean inlet

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Bradley Wiggins admits he was a cocaine addict. What does his struggle with drugs tell us about retired athlete care?

    Why did Bradley Wiggins seek advice from disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong to help him recover from cocaine addiction?What does the indictment of a US judge tell us about President Trump’s plans to take on the judiciary? How is a law from the 1800s being used to criminalise women who have abortions in 2025? Jess Winch is joined by Marie Le Conte, Rowan Moore and Andrew Butler, as they battle to pitch the top story of the day.

    29 min • S1, E232

  • Rowan Moore
    Frank Gehry, the starchitect who made poetry in solid form, dies at 96

    The creator of gravity-defying building profiles leaves behind a shimmering legacy, from Bilbao to Los Angeles

    Sat, 6 Dec 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    How a modern pub should be

    The Catford House, a 300-year-old farmhouse and later a south-east London boozer, has been lovingly transformed into an unofficial village hall

    Fri, 5 Dec 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    No commission for old men: the National Gallery deserves better

    The shortlist of architects bidding to enhance the UK’s leading art venue lacks courage and imagination. It’s a project crying out for younger blood

    Thu, 4 Dec 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    How a ruined religious complex became a modern university faculty

    God is in the detail of David Kohn’s artful, quirky and level-headed reimagining of Hasselt Beguinage

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Wes Anderson’s life in detail

    The film-maker has built a world of whimsy through props, costumes, puppets and puzzled nerds – the pieces of which are now on show at the Design Museum

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    The houses that England built

    Dan Cruickshank’s infectious passion for heritage lights up this social history of housing from 1712 to 1926

    Sat, 15 Nov 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    How Madelon Vriesendorp reimagined the modern city

    The ever-curious Dutch artist, winner of this year’s Soane medal, on capturing the New York skyline and her cabinet of curiosities

    Wed, 5 Nov 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    London’s first ‘sonic hair salon’

    An ambitious new hairdressers’ fuses mirrors, metal and a high-end audio experience in a former Victorian storehouse

    Fri, 31 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    JP Morgan’s monument to the end of remote working

    The bank’s New York HQ builds on a long history of benevolent tycoons providing their employees everything they need to stay put

    Thu, 30 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Trump’s White House renovation is ‘classic despot’

    Our architecture critic’s verdict on the newest ballroom in Washington, DC

    Wed, 22 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Seats of power: the furniture that defined modern India

    Now some of these fabled pieces have found a new home in north London

    Sun, 19 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    The £185m building that opens up Oxford University

    The Stephen A Schwarzman centre, built with the university’s largest ever donation, is a welcoming, contemporary take on a traditional Oxford building

    Sat, 18 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Why a radical ‘new almshouse’ won the Stirling prize

    An elegant building in Bermondsey with flats for the over-65s aims to provide homes that are sociable and serene

    Fri, 17 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Psychedelic Milton Keynes

    A paragon of postwar new towns it might be, but MK isn’t too well known for its cultural riches. An eye-popping makeover for the city’s main point of entry hopes to change all that…

    Fri, 3 Oct 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    How Britain’s housing was broken

    Jessica Field’s Eviction and Peter Apps’ Homesick chart the rise and ruin of social housing in the UK

    Sun, 28 Sept 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Why Churchill’s birthplace lies at the heart of UK energy battle

    Row over plans to build 2 million panels on land around Blenheim Palace has become symbolic of a national struggle

    Sun, 21 Sept 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    How the Lovell Health House became a Hollywood icon

    The 1930s modernist masterpiece was designed as a centre of wellness and sanitation before directors spotted its cinematic potential

    Sun, 21 Sept 2025

  • Rowan Moore
    Obituary: Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

    Obituary: Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

    Sat, 20 Sept 2025

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