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Rowan Moore

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Notebook Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

The second least surprising piece of recent news – the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial...

20.04.2024 60

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The Observer view on The Princess of Wales: calm and courage amid a family already beset by crises

The video recording in which Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer will be remembered as a moving personal...

23.03.2024 10

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Notebook In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy

Last week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. This is the same government that last month,...

23.03.2024 10

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Notebook London’s BT Tower is to be ‘repurposed’ – let’s just hope no one messes with its 60s perfection

In his 1994 movie London, a classic of poetical-geographical film-making, its director-writer Patrick Keiller speculates that the BT tower, that rises...

24.02.2024 10

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Notebook Chateau Florence airport, anyone? A bouquet of fumes and jet fuel beckons

I am trying hard to appreciate a plan to put a 19-acre vineyard on the roof of a new terminal building for Amerigo Vespucci airport in Florence, from...

27.01.2024 10

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Notebook Talkshow host Jesse Kelly turns taking liberties with the facts into an art form

We should be used by now to the uncoupling of rightwing discourse from fact. See, for example, the Daily Telegraph’s vilification of the mayor of...

30.12.2023 10

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Notebook We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining?

To the laments of military historians about the accuracy of Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon, one could add some about the architecture. Christopher...

02.12.2023 10

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Notebook Why are Liverpool Street station plans still shrouded in fog of ‘confidentiality’?

The controversial plans to rebuild much of Liverpool Street station depend on one crucial argument – that they are the only way to significantly...

04.11.2023 3

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Observer comment cartoon Keir Starmer’s fragile cargo – cartoon

15.10.2023 4

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No jetpacks or monorails, new towns just need to be places people want to live

N ew towns are back. One of the most distinctive policies of Labour’s still light-on-detail offer to the voters is Keir Starmer’s promise to...

14.10.2023 4

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Notebook After the HS2 fiasco, perhaps the journey is over for heavy engineering in Britain

S ources connected to the now-truncated HS2 project tell me of the insane difficulty, expense and delay of building an underground electricity supply...

07.10.2023 9

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Observer comment cartoon Raac concrete: the Conservatives are doing a really great job – cartoon

10.09.2023 6

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Notebook Instead of tilting at turbines we should see them for what they are: beautiful

G rowing up in the countryside, it was a feature of drives with my parents that electricity pylons would be deplored. So I am familiar with the...

09.09.2023 7

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