Richard Rogersweds the best of high-tech

design with the outer limits of the architect’s imagination,

creating soaring, sustainable spaces that enrich everyday

urban life.

weds the best of high-tech design with the outer limits of

the architect’s imagination, creating soaring, sustainable spaces that enrich everyday

urban life.

Richard Rogers produced a new vision of the city

dubbed London As It Could Be.

A pedestrian super-bridge would span the river, with new walking

routes opened up between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar

Square. This would create a city built to serve not the spatial

needs of the automobile industry but the cultural needs of its living

residents.

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The show demonstrated his ability to explore a

different kind of sustainability, one

intimately connected to the experiential fabric of

the city.

This house that the architect built for his parents in 1969 is a transparent, flexible

tube, which can be extended and adapted.

Pompidou CenterParis1977

Instead of carved ornament and stone

statuary, we see glass and steel details

almost constantly on the move.

Channel 4WestminsterHQ1994

Lloyds of London

Bourdeaux Law Courts1998Cedar clad “pods” hold the actual courtrooms.

The Bordeaux Law Courts, 1998, have seven cedar clad pods that act as the courtrooms.

Madrid’s Barajas Airport, 2005, includes a massive sequence of color coded columns, each vaulting to a bamboo ceiling from massive plinths.

Bodegas Protos WinerySpain 2008Contains over a mile of underground tunnels for aging wine.

In a competition called Design for Manufacture the Oxley houses are unusual

in appearance… The feature “clever ways of using wood,” including prefabricated panels made from sustainably harvested European softwoods and a paper-based internal insulation. The

components were delivered flat-pack, greatly reducing construction waste, with

the added benefit that each home’s “external envelope” was ready in a mere

two days.