Gallery: Some of Richard Rogers’ greatest buildings
Richard Rogers has won the Stirling Prize twice - for Barajas Airport terminal in Madrid and for London’s first Maggie’s cancer care centre - but his most famous buildings are undoubtedly the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyds Building in London.
Richard Rogers was also the author of the Millennium Dome - which was initially ridiculed because of the contents, which were nothing to do with the practice, and the millennium-eve singalong led by the then prime minister Tony Blair. It is now the highly successful O2 concert venue.
Significant projects include the Welsh Senedd, the European Court of Human Rights and Bordeaux Law Courts, all characterised by a metaphorical and literal transparency.
Other high-profile schemes designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and its current incarnation, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, include the Cheesegrater - where it is now based - the British Museum’s Stirling-shortlisted World Exhibitions and Conservation Centre, and 3 World Trade Centre in Manhattan which is part of the replacement development for the Twin Towers.
Richard Rogers at the 'London as it could be'
exhibition, 1986
Source: RSHP
Centre Pompidou - Peter Rice, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers with Ruth Rogers in the background
Source: Tony Evans
The front elevation of the Pompidou Centre, Paris, by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
Source: Katsuhisa Kida
The trading floor at the Lloyd's Building in the City of London, one of Richard's earliest and most famous projects
Source: Janet Gill
Richard Rogers' Lloyd's Building in the City of London, with the steeple of St Andrew Undershaft to the left
Source: Richard Bryant
A Place For All People - Rogers' Millennium Dome, now the O2. It was supported by 12 masts
Source: Grant Smith
Barajas Airport in Madrid won the practice its first Stirling Prize in 2006
The Maggie's Centre in west London won the Stirling Prize in 2009
The house Richard designed for his parents in Wimbledon
Source: Richard Bryant
Illustrative render of Shanghai City masterplan - Pudong - a scheme Rogers was passionate about
Source: RSHP
RSHP's 3 World Trade Centre in Manhattan, May 2018
Source: Joe Woolhead
RSHP's 3 World Trade Centre in Manhattan, viewed from the park
Source: Joe Woolhead
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg by RSHP
Source: RSHP
Bordeaux Law Courts by RSHP
Source: RSHP
Neo Bankside housing in Southwark, London, by RSHP
Source: Edmund Sumner
The check-in hall at RSHP's Heathrow Terminal 5
Source: Katsuhisa Kida
Early collaborator and partner Mike Davies leading a tour of RSHP's Thames Wharf Studios at Hammersmith for the last Open House weekend before the practice moved to its Leadenhall Building in the City
RSHP's Leadenhall Building - aka the Cheesegrater - opposite the Lloyd's Building. The practice moved there in 2016 from Hammersmith
RSHP's Leadenhall Building - aka the Cheesegrater - opposite the Lloyd's Building. The practice moved there in 2016 from Hammersmith
RSHP's World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre at the British Museum
The British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners
Source: Kate Peters / RSHP
The Richard Rogers’ Drawing Gallery in France was his final work, begun before his retirement from practice last year. It stands in the vineyard at Château La Coste, a 500-acre area of outstanding natural beauty which also has works by Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel. The cantilever propels the visitor deeper into the natural world, giving the sensation of being suspended in air in the midst of the countryside...
Source: Stéphane Aboudaram
The Richard Rogers’ Drawing Gallery in France was his final work, begun before his retirement from practice last year. It stands in the vineyard at Château La Coste, a 500-acre area of outstanding natural beauty which also has works by Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel. The gallery is aligned with the neat rows of vines in the vineyard behind
Source: Stéphane Aboudaram
Richard Rogers with Graham Stirk, left, and Ivan Harbour
Source: Dan Stevens
RSHP's cancer centre at Guy's Hospital
RSHP's Las Arenas shopping centre in Barcelona was converted from a historic former bullring
RSHP - Sydney International Towers
Headquarters for Mexican finance group BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City. The 50-storey tower was designed by RSHP and local firm Legorreta & Legorreta
RSHP's One Hyde Park flats in central London
Headquarters for Mexican finance group BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City. The 50-storey tower was designed by RSHP and local firm Legorreta & Legorreta
The Macallan distillery in Speyside was shortlisted for the 2019 Stirling Prize
The Passenger Clearance Building in Hong Kong, by RSHP and Aedas
RSHP's Centre Building for the LSE in London
One of RSHP's Y:Cube low-cost housing projects in south London
Place Ladywell - RSHP's low-cost housing in south London
The Macallan distillery in Speyside was shortlisted for the 2019 Stirling Prize
Source: Joas Souza
Albert Embankment towers by the river in London: RSHP's Merano, right, with Foster & Partners' Corniche and EPR Architects' The Dumont
Marseille Airport by RSHP
Source: RSHP
The rooftop lantern at Qianhai Financial Holdings Headquarter Tower in China
Source: Atchain
8 Chifley Square, Sydney. Courtesy of RSHP with Lippmann Partnership Arup Australia, 2014
Source: Brett Boardman
Team photo on Richard Rogers' birthday, 2008. Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners staff gathered in Burton Court, the field between Richard Rogers' house and Christopher Wren's Royal Hospital at Chelsea
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