Tag: Rowan Moore
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Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?
Tall buildings are still deemed desirable, even glamorous, but experts are drawing attention to the high environmental cost of building them
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The world’s top 10 new architecture projects
Making a virtue out of global lockdown, our critic takes a virtual tour of the world’s best new architecture projects – from a rural Vietnamese preschool to a Belgian folly and a synagogue in Paraguay
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Meet the Italian designers who have a way with wood
Studio Formafantasma are revolutionising the use of timber in a way that will make you see this age-old material in a new light
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Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2019
From hemp and cork buildings to energy-efficient council housing, the climate crisis got us thinking laterally• Read the Observer critics’ review of 2019 in full here
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Gardens, waterfalls, parks… what is happening to our airports?
From Beijing to Istanbul, exotic new airports are symbols of prestige for strongman leaders. But the environmental cost is massive…
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Hello, Robot review – where human and machine don’t quite meet
V&A DundeeFrom pet cyber-seals to cars with minds of their own, an exploration of the science and fiction of robots raises more questions than it answers