Millennium Dome architect Lord Rogers dead at 88
Millennium Dome architect Lord Rogers dead at 88: Pioneer behind Pompidou Centre and Lloyd’s of London HQ is remembered as a ‘gracious man and glorious talent’
Architect Richard Rogers, who designed Millennium Dome, has died aged 88 He also designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris and Lloyd’s of London buildingLord Rogers won the the Pritzker prize in 2017 – having ‘revolutionised’ museums
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Architect Richard Rogers who changed the London skyline with the Millennium Dome and ‘Cheesegrater’ Leadenhall Building has died at the age of 88.
Lord Rogers, who also designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyd’s of London building, ‘passed away quietly’ on Saturday evening, according to his communications agent.
American architecture critic Paul Goldberger called the news ‘heartbreaking’, adding on Twitter it was ‘another huge loss for architecture in 2021. A gracious man and a glorious talent. RIP’.
British architect Richard Rogers, known for designing some of the world’s most famous buildings including Paris’ Pompidou Centre, has died aged 88
The London Millennium Dome, designed by British architect Richard Rogers
The ‘Cheesegrater’ Leadenhall Building, completed in 2013, is among the most recognisable recent additions to London’s skyline
Lord Rogers was born in 1933 to an Anglo-Italian family in Florence, Italy and at a young age moved to England, where he later trained at the Architectural Association School of Architure in London before graduating with a master’s from Yale.
His designs, which also include the Senedd building in Cardiff and Strasbourg’s European Court of Human Rights, won critical acclaim with the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize.
The jury when awarding him the Pritzker in 2017 praised him for having ‘revolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city’.
He received the Freedom of the City of London at Guildhall Art Gallery in 2014 in recognition of his contribution to architecture and urbanism.
Lord Rogers, one of the two architects of the cultural ‘Pompidou’ centre poses in front of the building in Paris
The Pompidou Centre in Paris, designed in the style of high-tech architecture, was constructed between 1971 and 1977
The Pompidou Centre houses France’s public information library as well as the Musée National d’Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Eu
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, designed by British architect Richard Rogers
Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy early on Sunday paid tribute to Lord Rogers, whose firm designed the channel’s 124 Horseferry Road headquarters, as someone ‘whose wonderful buildings are testament to an amazing, inventive, charismatic man’.
The New York Times reported Lord Rogers is survived by his wife Lady Ruth, sons Ab, Ben, Roo and Zad, his brother Peter and 13 grandchildren.
