Rowan Moore

@HomerPavlos Owls don't have blue eyes

The sacred bird of Athena is called the "Glauka" (Little Owl). One of the epithets of the Goddess Athena was "γλαυκώπις" (glaukopis), meaning "bright-eyed" or "owl-eyed" because of her sparkling blue eyes. Chris Nolan has disrespected us Greeks.

@JackPosobiec Hector, Priam, Aeneas and Paris were Asian

Helen of Troy was white Achilles was white Odysseus was white This is all white culture

@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.

Elon Musk is doubling down on his criticisms against Christopher Nolan’s #TheOdyssey, claiming the director’s diverse casting choices were made to meet #Oscars eligibility requirements. “Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?” he asked. “Chris Nolan desecrated ‘The Odyssey’ so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award.” variety.com/2026/film/news…

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Yup

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

I’m worried i might get injured just by being a spurs fan at this point.

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

‘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 bit.ly/3QkUeMr

“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. bit.ly/4bGCm6P Making Sense of Social Housing is produced together with Lloyds Banking Group

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. otdelnov.com/en/gallery-est…

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? tickettailor.com/events/barnsbu…

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

Check this shithouse out: “They’ve erased israel my country from the world” My only question is where is the nearest selfridges so I can buy 1 because that’s a world I want to be part of.

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

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…