Nationality

United Kingdom

Birth date
23 July 1933(age77)

Birth place
Florence, Italy

Practice
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Buildings
Centre Georges Pompidou
Lloyd's Building
Millennium Dome
European Court of Human Rights
Madrid-Barajas AirportTerminal 4
Heathrow AirportTerminal 5

Awards
RIBA Gold Medal(1985)
Thomas Jefferson Medal(1999)
Stirling Prize(2006), (2009)
Minerva Medal (2007)
Pritzker Prize(2007)

Awards

Pritzker-prize (2007) winning architect Richard Rogers

is known for grand yet transparent buildings with
bright, light-filled spaces and flexible floor plans.
In this photo gallery you will find pictures of his
buildings and copies of some of his architectural
renderings.
In addition to the Pritzker, Rogers also received the
Japanese Praemium Imperiale in 2000,
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in
1999, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the
American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters in
1989, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1985.

Design Philosophy

City and Context. Sustainable urban

development is dependent on three factors;
the quality of architecture,
social well-being and
environmental responsibility. .
The compact sustainable city is multi-cultural with a
hierarchy of density, has a mix of uses and tenures,
is well connected with a coherent public transport,
walking and cycling infrastructure, is well designed
both in terms of public spaces and building, and is
environmentally responsive.

Public Domain. It is the celebration of public space, and the

encouragement of public activities that drives the form of the
practices buildings.
It is the buildings scale and relationship with the street or
square that helps to encourage public activity and create a
people friendly environment.

Legibility. Work, leisure and domestic activities are becoming

interchangeable, leading to the creation of open-ended, flexible
structures such as the Pompidou Centre, the Wimbledon House,
88 Wood Street, and Barajas Airport in Madrid.
These buildings, with their legible facades and logical form,
relate directly to both the user and passers-by.
Buildings such as these make legible the historic forces of the
time: how they are constructed, their relationship with their
context, and what they are used for, and in doing so, bring a
new dimension to the way people interact with the built
environment.

Flexibility. Our master plans are defined by an holistic

approach allowing for enough flexibility to accommodate
changes over the lifespan of a city, in order to meet market
demands.
The practicalities and concept of a public place should be
inherently flexible in order to respond to changes such as
transport and density.

Energy. Richard Rogers Partnership employ an holistic

approach to the physical form of each building, from the
massing, orientation, and the arrangement of its constituent
parts, in order to ensure a responsible approach to the
buildings overall environmental performance.

Centre Pompidou, Paris

The project submitted by the two architects

attracted the attention of the jury for several
reasons.
The decisive point that justified the jurys choice
was their proposal to leave a vast space freely
available to the public in front of the building: the
piazza.
This piazza, providing breathing space for the
densely populated neighbourhood.

It was designed with Renzo Piano and

completed in 1977.
With this amazing building, Rogers and
Piano took their desire to celebrate the
art of engineering and industrial design to
spectacular extremes.
The rationale was to allow the greatest
possible amount of floor space for the
interior, so that art lovers (it is, after all,
an arts centre), could enjoy enough space
to appreciate the exhibitions.
Today, the building itself is one of Paris
most popular tourist attractions.
But at the time reaction was decidedly
mixed. Critics dubbed the inside-out
style Bowellism.

The team's architectural

intention was to provide a
large degree of flexibility, an
open plaza area as a vital
extension of the interior
functions, and long building
facades that would be
"information surfaces."
The street side would display
traffic-related data, and the
plaza side would present
entertainment and
information to pedestrians.
The site for the Centre had
been cleared in the 1930s
and was used as an untidy
car-park before it was
identified as the ideal location
for President Georges
Pompidou's arts centre..

The building structure is very distinctive.

It has been described by critics as "an oil refinery
in the centre of the city.
In the beginning, it was highly controversial.
Everything, from the lifts to the sewage pipes, is
visible on the outside of the structure.
The colored external piping is the special feature
of the building. Air conditioning ducts are blue;
water pipes are green; and electricity lines are
Escalators
yellow. and elevators
are red. White ducts are
ventilation shafts for the
underground areas.
Even the steel beams
that make up the
Pompidou Centre's
framework are on the
outside.

The intention of the architects was to place the various service

elements (electricity, water etc.) outside of the building's
framework and therefore turn the building "inside out.
The arrangement also allows an uncluttered internal space for
the display of art works, drawing on ideas .

Inside Pompidou
Public access to the
museum areas is not from
the escalator tubes, as
the building exterior
seems to suggest, but
from doors located
centrally at the lower
edge of the plaza.
A double-height interior
forum connects the street
level with the plaza level
in a single volume.

Millennium dome

Architect--Richard Rogers
Date1999
Building Type -- Exposition hall
ConstructionSystem -- Fabric enclosure with
tensile support
Climate -- Mild temperate
Context -- Urban waterfront
Style -- High-Tech Modern
Notes -- One of several grand
millennium projects in the UK..

The Millennium Dome, now officially

known as The O2, is a large dome
shaped building on the Greenwich
peninsula in south east London, the
United Kingdom.
The dome was constructed in order to
hold a major exhibition celebrating
the beginning of the third millennium.
The Millennium Dome is the largest
single-roofed structure in the world .
Externally it appears as a large white
marquee with 100m-high yellow
support towers, one for each month
of the year or each hour of the clock
face.

In plan it is circular, 365m in diameter one metre for each

day of the year with scalloped edges.

Although called a dome it is not strictly one as it is not self

supporting.

It is a mast-supported, dome-shaped cable network.

The entire roof structure weighs less than the air contained
within the building.

The canopy is made of PTFE coated glass fibre fabric, a

durable and weather-resistant plastic,

And it is 50 m high in the middle.

Its symmetry is interrupted by a hole through which a

ventilation shaft from the Blackwall Tunnel rises.

The building structure was engineered by Buro Happold,

MadridBarajasAirport

The prestigious Stirling Prize has been awarded to

the Barajas Airport in Madrid, designed byRichard
Rogers Partnershipin association withEstudio
Lamela Arquitectos.
The prize is given annually by theRoyal Institute of
British Architects(RIBA).
The Barajas Airport, is 3900 feet (1200 meters) long,
with a 3300-foot- (1000-meter-) long satellite, linked
by an underground train and accommodating up to
35 million passengers annually.

This multiple design award-winning airport, designed by none

other thanRogers Stirk Harbour & Partners(formerly known as
Richard Rogers Partnership), has another innovative feature apart
from the bamboo wave structure to improve well-being and ecofriendliness in this airport: an exemplary use of daylight!
Not one fluorescent tube, ugly ceiling tile or cold metal sheet
roofing can be found here.
The punctuated roof lets natural light in, through what looks like
big friendly eyes, in a controlled way.
RSHP say while no specific environmental criteria were stipulated
in the brief, the design team set out to maximise natural daylight
to all passenger areas and reduce dependence on artificial light,
while providing views out and reducing solar gain with extensive
external shading.

The result apart from saving

energy is a beautiful play of
changing daylight along the
bamboo roof and the rest of
the interiors (thin tree-like
columns and glass walls).
When theres no daylight,
pools of electric lighting
illuminate
the spaces.
The building's legible, modular
design creates a repeating
sequence of waves formed by
vast wings of prefabricated
steel.

Supported on central 'trees',the great roof is

punctuated by
roof
lights providing carefully
controlled natural light throughout the upper
level of
the terminal.

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Shani Kumar
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