Rowan Moore

Visiting the Zaha Hadid Foundation

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. aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28…

Slightly unfashionable view these days but I think the Senedd building is a beautiful, modern parliament. Good to see MSs returning to it today.

‘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

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.

Beautiful stone details as well

@MunicipalDreams Yes, always liked this one

The Dartmouth Park Hill Estate, Camden. In 1983, the Civic Trust praised it for evoking ‘memories of Edwardian villas and the welcoming scale of a delightful suburbia’: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-dartmout…

@Frances_Coppola In that case we should throw out the Anglo-Saxon colonisers of Britain, and return Hertfordshire to its rightful owners, the Iceni

Melanie, what do you think should happen to the Arabs who live in the land that you claim should be exclusively for Jews? I've asked you this several times and you have not answered.

This is an extraordinary piece about the grind and hopelessness of life in present day Cuba, by @Ruaridhnicoll , who manages to be by turns romantic, wistful and clear eyed. It is a piece about loss and gross incompetence in the face of that loss. theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

The Doctor Feelgood of architecture Niall McLaughlin, the poetic and down-to-earth architect, is a worthy winner of the Royal Gold Medal, writes @RowanMoore bit.ly/49OoiY6

@LegoRacers2 I’m waiting for the Early Career of Thomas Frank in iambic pentameters

Every 600-700 years somebody writes a story in metrical verse set in Denmark and it becomes the greatest work of the English language

Somehow, at some point in the last few years it has become acceptable to publicly mock trans people. This isn’t about vulnerable women’s spaces, or women’s sport, it’s about delighting in declaring your disgust for a tiny minority of other humans and it has to stop.

@oldenoughtosay Wasn’t Carlisle also used as a quarry for building fortifications during the English Civil War? To its detriment. And also suffer very visible subsidence issues.

An excellent and important article. Judges are supposed to decide without fear. This is becoming impossible

observer.co.uk/news/national/… A beautiful tribute to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who has died so tragically young

There has been a lot of talk about BBC bias today. Its a good moment to remember the BBC Gaza Report @cfmmuk by the Centre for Media Monitoring, just to remind ourselves of the scandalous bias against Palestine @BBCNews in the face of the Gaza Genocide share.google/rzQVhvigAoqQ3L…

The perfect Christmas gift from ⁦@C20Society⁩ Magnificent

Good to see recognition for such an influential creator observer.co.uk/culture/interv…