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Richard Rogers (July 23, 1933 - December 18, 2021)

Pioneer of high-tech architecture, British-Italian architect, Richard Rogers has passed away at the age of 88.

Mr Rogers received several awards during his career that spanned five decades, including the Pritzker Prize in 2007, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1985, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in 1999, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 2000, among others.

He earned a reputation for creating prefabricated structures, representing structural simplicity, what would later be referred to as high-tech architecture.

His high-tech approach is most evident in the Pompidou Center (1971–77) in Paris, which he designed with the Italian architect Renzo Piano. He gained more international attention for his spectacular Lloyds of London skyscraper (1978–86) and led to other commissions, including the European court of Human Rights (1989–95) in Strasbourg, France; the Channel 4 Television Headquarters (1991–94) in London; 88 Wood Street (1994–99), an office development in London; and the Daimler Chrysler building (1993–99) in the revitalized Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. Rogers’s work reached its greatest audience when he designed the Millenium Dome (1996–99; later the O2 Arena) in Greenwich, England. Among Rogers’s later works is Terminal 4 (2005) at Madrid Barajas.

Rest in Power!

88 Wood Street, London,

Centre Pompidou (1971–1977)

Lloyd's building,

Lloyd’s Register in London, UK,

33 Park Row, Manhattan, New York,

Millennium Dome, Greenwich,

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