All creations great and small: inside this year’s Riba Stirling prize From an 18-storey office to the Natural History Museum’s own Jurassic park, the 126-strong longlist mixes scale, artistry and public significance, @RowanMoore bit.ly/4wVx6os

The Times & the Telegraph now in full grip of Misan derangement syndrome. Send help. It’s almost as if a black man with outspoken views on Gaza is some sort of target? 🤔

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Yup

“I was a Jewish person in Palestine, and it is my emotional and my professional duty to work for the liberation of this place.”

‘It is my duty to work for the liberation of Gaza’ says @weizman_eyal The Israeli-born Jew founded @ForensicArchi to map the physical fabric of crime scenes, including those in war. He explains to @RowanMoore why he believes Israel is committing genocide bit.ly/3QkUeMr

“Britain’s got a very proud history of social housing, it was pretty much invented here” Rowan Moore, Architecture Critic, The Observer. In our latest podcast series, Making Sense of Social Housing, hear Rowan Moore’s reflections on some of the most iconic and respected social housing developments that the UK has built over the past fifty years, and how the current government could learn from their success. You can listen to Making Sense of Social Housing here. bit.ly/4bGCm6P Making Sense of Social Housing is produced together with Lloyds Banking Group

Highly recommended, Pavel Otdelnov’s 'Estates: Fragile Utopia'  - 'an artistic investigation of post-war British council housing as a material residue of a now-fractured social contract'. At Lewisham Arthouse till the 20th. otdelnov.com/en/gallery-esta…

delighted to be talking with the peerless and indefatigible @Victoria_Spratt at the first ever @Barnsburybookf. About housing, injustice and the forthcoming We Were Promised The Moon. In which she asks: were young adults mis-sold a future? tickettailor.com/events/barn…

thank you everyone. I'm delighted to say that she's been found, so I'll be deleting this post

Visiting the Zaha Hadid Foundation

The killing of dozens of girls at a primary school in Iran is not on the front page of a single British newspaper. A simple test - imagine the reaction if they were Israelis. aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28…

Slightly unfashionable view these days but I think the Senedd building is a beautiful, modern parliament. Good to see MSs returning to it today.

‘Schinkel in Manchester’ an exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of his visit to Manchester on 17 July 1826 is now on display at @TheMSArch until 13 March (Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 245th birthday) #karlfriedrichschinkel #manchester

Apart from a single year 1950-51, the Conservatives were in power throughout the 1950s. The total lack of historical understanding of Britain’s commitment to modernising - across society - in the post war years is remarkable.

Beautiful stone details as well

This is an extraordinary piece about the grind and hopelessness of life in present day Cuba, by @Ruaridhnicoll , who manages to be by turns romantic, wistful and clear eyed. It is a piece about loss and gross incompetence in the face of that loss. theguardian.com/world/2026/f…

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

The Doctor Feelgood of architecture Niall McLaughlin, the poetic and down-to-earth architect, is a worthy winner of the Royal Gold Medal, writes @RowanMoore bit.ly/49OoiY6

Somehow, at some point in the last few years it has become acceptable to publicly mock trans people. This isn’t about vulnerable women’s spaces, or women’s sport, it’s about delighting in declaring your disgust for a tiny minority of other humans and it has to stop.