The prize-winning poetry of the Azerbaijani president’s daughter and the Dubai Expo both lack inspirationYou might think of poets as poor – starving in their garrets, receiving tiny sums for their occasional slim volumes of verse and all that. Not so L…
Greenwich Design District review – a lesson in how to make somewhere out of nowhere
Eight architects, 16 new buildings and one masterplan have converged in the shadow of London’s O2 to conjure up a neighbourhood for creative types that’s full of energy and charmThere once was an area in Singapore – Bugis – which, its trans nightlife b…
Dismissed and derided when they stood, it’s time to reassess the twin towers | Rowan Moore
Twenty years after their destruction, we can finally see Yamasaki’s landmark pillars in all their gloryFew buildings illustrated architecture’s power to be different things to different people at different times than the twin towers of the World Trade…
Luma Arles review – Frank Gehry, a billionaire and a wonderland of good intentions
Parc des Ateliers, Arles, FranceGehry’s crumpled metal tower is the glittering icon of a new cultural campus in the south of France where high ideals and extravagance feel at oddsI am looking at a wall surfaced in salt. It is the wall of a lift lobby i…
How to make London greener: stick up a tower block with a roof garden
The idea may not win the Garden Museum’s competition but, as a parody, it deserves a prizeThe Garden Museum in London is running an architectural competition for the design of a pavilion for St Mary’s Gardens, a leafy enclave next to its premises in a …