Rowan Moore

Margaret Thatcher’s ‘property-owning democracy’ project drove a mass sell-off of social housing. After more than 40 years of soaring prices and growing inequality, is it time to change course?

The designer is right to criticise boring buildings, but picks his targets poorly and shows no inclination to confront the forces that create such structures

Overcoming nimbyism will be the least of Labour’s challenges in creating communities fit for modern Britain

Wolton, who died in 2021 aged 87, helped launch Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Her dilapidated London home is almost all that remains of her fearless work

It was always going to be complicated driving a great railway through expensive, scenic, Tory-voting countryside; best stick to broadband and buses

Britons should learn to love onshore renewables as part of a long tradition of robust, practical, rural structures

The bank will leave London’s Docklands in 2027, and others will follow as need for office space reduces and staff seek better work environments

The Irish city’s new interactive visitor attraction celebrating all things rugby cleverly embodies the sport in Níall McLaughlin’s imposing, community-centred design

A dynamic fusion of ‘gentle density’ housing in green belt Croydon is the latest example of thoughtful, visionary housing design the government would do well to learn from

His neo-classical conservatism was condemned as ‘pagan’ by one rival

One rolling across a divide, the other narrowly avoiding rowers and rare snails, the Cody Dock Rolling Bridge and Dukes Meadows Footbridge are both old-school feats of engineering

Nick Fletcher doesn’t seem to want people to live and work in places that work well for their inhabitants

Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flaws

Creepy minimalist interiors, brutalist tower blocks at night – 20 artists go in all directions exploring architectural modernism and horror, starting with Birmingham…

The minister’s call for buildings to be aesthetically pleasing is all very well, but nimbies and developers have other concerns

Playful, elegant additions to universities and colleges were the class acts to follow, while the newly opened Elizabeth line exceeded all design expectations

The rapper’s creations are unlikely to pass muster with adherents of modern design, even if they do ‘push the boundaries’

Qatar’s new stadiums are Instagram-ready and waiting, but there’s no getting away from the environmental cost of their construction – nor the question of what to do with them when the crowds go home

One’s an architect’s idyll, the other a faded brutalist gem, but both are worth seeing on this scenic coastal hike between the two

Protesters against Neom don’t last long. How can western architects ignore this?