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Viva Las Vegas: Five of Sin City’s best buildings

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  Affectionately known as the “Entertainment Capital of the World”, Las Vegas has come a long way since its founding in 1905, becoming one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations with its gambling notoriety at the heart of it. Naturally, being a man-made city, Vegas has some impressive buildings to look out for. Here … Read more

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2019

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From hemp and cork buildings to energy-efficient council housing, the climate crisis got us thinking laterally

• Read the Observer critics’ review of 2019 in full here

Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2017

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Postmodernism returned in style, Liverpool’s Welsh Streets were saved, but Grenfell Tower defined the year

• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full