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Rowan Moore

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.

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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

City beaches: coming to a park near you

The urban beach on the bank of the Seine has proved to be a hit with Parisians. But would it work as well in east London?

Saddle up to ride out the stresses of city life

There's something about horses in cities. They command space. They change the tempo. They demand respect

Like a silly moustache on a dignified friend

It's enough to restore your faith in democracy: an elected councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea dares to tell Historic Royal Palaces, and behind them the royal family, the truth.

You cannot build great cities by consensus alone

When you want to drain a marsh," declared the late President Mitterrand, "you don't consult the frogs"

Paranoid spirit of George Bush era would live on in this fortress

It's a fair bet that the US State Department didn't reckon on the level of insurgency they have encountered from London's planning authorities.

Thanks, Debbie Purdy, now we all have freedom to choose

The husband of a fellow MS sufferer explains why Debbie Purdy’s Law Lords victory is so welcome

Stop the vandals taking an axe to London's arts

Not many months ago we were all born-again disciples of John Maynard Keynes. A new New Deal was on the way in which public pounds spent on good works would wash around the aching bones of the economy like some magical spa treatment

A remedy for sick buildings

The new Kentish Town Health Centre is bright and functional — so why is it the exception rather than the rule when it comes to medical facilities?

Russia's new revolution

Modern, blingy, pricey Moscow is a far cry from the communist years. But taste and elegance are fast returning to the Russian capital, says Rowan Moore

Does London really need more housing restrictions?

Today the Mayor unveils his proposals to stop developers building tiny 'Hobbit homes'. But are more restrictions what London really needs?

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