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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.
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.
Instead of carved ornament and stone
statuary, we see glass and steel details
almost constantly on the move.
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.
