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Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint | Rowan Moore

The Catholic church has taken the first steps to canonise the architect of Barcelona’s extraordinary Sagrada Família

I don’t understand the processes by which people become saints, but the case for th…

42 days ago

A temple to extravagance. And that goes for Manchester United’s new stadium, too | Rowan Moore

Could Norman Foster’s £2bn design for the club, which will be seen 25 miles away, turn out to be a case of hubris before ruin?

There’s a phenomenon in architectural history whereby great empires buil…

84 days ago

Praised, then razed: why is UK’s best building of 1996 being demolished?

The Centenary Building in Salford was described as ‘dynamic and sophisticated’ when it won the first Stirling prize. Now it is to be knocked down as part of a huge development

When j…

2 months ago

Born of prosperity, sunlight and optimism, California’s dream homes now lie in ashes | Rowan Moore

Magnificent, irreplaceable 20th-century architecture made with craft and imagination was destroyed in the Palisades wildfires

Pacific Palisades and its surrounding neighbourhoods, which have burned so…

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