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Rowan Moore

Artist's impression of Spurs' new ground

Tottenham need to think again over new stadium

Like Spurs' current team, the club's proposed stadium project risks being less than the sum of its parts. A more inspiring vision is needed

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London's first glimpse inside the Olympic Stadium

Stepping inside the Olympic Stadium is “a Neil Armstrong” moment for our architecture critic. It’s a triumph of project management — but he wonders if it will be more than the sum of its parts

Architects go green for 2010

Brash monuments to luxury will grab the attention - but this year, the capital’s most innovative new building projects will find room for goats and marrows

World’s tallest tower scales heights of delusion

As an emblem of the change of decade, there is nothing more deliciously poignant than yesterday's opening of the $4 billion, 818-metre latest tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai

The high rise of coloured buildings

A new London office building by Renzo Piano shows that architects are increasingly keen to raid the paintbox

Tall stories by London's tower builders

The strangest thing about the Great Tower Craze of the Noughties is that almost no towers got built

Design Real is inspiringly strange

At Design Real there are things designed to look good and things where the look is irrelevant

Boris Johnson should tell us what he wants London to look like

What kind of city does Boris want? Would it be a thrusting metropolis of the 21st century with glass pinnacles reaching for the sky, or would it be a London reflecting the education of our classicist Mayor, with Georgian proportions and imperial colonnades?

It’s a real Test, but this is one stadium refit that could work

Most sports stadiums are in dusty edge-of-town locations where designers don’t have to worry too much about the effects of their behemoths on their surroundings.

London's streets need less clutter and more class

What do you want from your streets? Clean-liness, safety and good lighting, and the ability to go where you want and do what you want

It's not time for a Zaha Hadid backlash

The world's most glamorous architect has just unveiled a futuristic new museum in Rome - and her Olympic Aquatics Centre is taking shape. They may be extravagant, but there is still value in thinking big

We have designs on your office

Fashion designers are setting their sights beyond the catwalk as more are drawing their own blueprints for stores and offices such as Burberry’s HQ

Pride of the Gunners: High praise for Highbury Square

The conversion of Arsenal's former ground isn't quite the surprising landmark it could have been - but it has achieved the rare feat of creating a modern garden square

Area deserves better than this generic vision

There is a mismatch between the hyperbole surrounding Nine Elms and the document intended to guide its growth.

Why London is filling up with towers of piffle

Mayors and towers go together like Richard and Judy, or The X Factor's excruciating twins, John and Edward. They are mutually reinforcing, each one helping the other to look and feel good

Lord Rogers - the star architect who failed to charm Chelsea

It's been another mixed week for Lord Rogers. His practice has won the Stirling Prize for the Maggie's cancer care centre in Hammersmith. At the same time his lawyers are chasing £2 million of fees they say he is still owed by developers Qatari Diar following the abandonment of the Rogers-designed redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks.

Now more than ever, the Lottery can do some good

The Tories want to change how the huge sums raised are handed out — and plenty of projects need support

Beautiful building syndrome

After 20 years with her late husband Jan Kaplicky’s Future Systems, Amanda Levete has unveiled her first big solo project just off Oxford Street — and it has all of her old partnership’s vision and elegance

Green’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar is posh and pukka

Green’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar in St James’s, as more learned authorities than me have observed, is about comfort food for toffs

Good Indian food without fuss

Noiya Indian Kitchen and Bar is neither conventional nor pretentious, and makes an intelligent addition to the city’s stock of Indian restaurants

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